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Financial Market Fragility in the Era of AI Planning

Winston Wei Dou, Itay Goldstein, and their co-author Yan Ji explore how advanced AI planning technology can put financial market stability at risk.

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Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy

Gideon BornsteinSergio Salgado, and their co-author Bence Bardóczy uncover how labor market concentration blunts the power ofmonetary policy. This paper was supported by Pre-Doctoral Research Associates Tanvi Jindal and Paige Stevenson.

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The Effect of Fiscal Policy Shocks on Asset Prices

Courtney Wiegand’s measure of fiscal policy shocks shows that deficit news moves asset prices across markets — raising Treasury yields, reshaping term premiums, and boosting equities when monetary policy is constrained.

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Firm Heterogeneity and Adverse Selection in External Finance

Thomas Winberry and his co-authors show how private information creates a “lemons problem” in the market for external finance. Read about this paper on Knowledge at Wharton.

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