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Research Briefs·Dec 3, 2024

Inflation and Treasury Convenience

Anna Cieslak, Wenhao Li, and Carolin Pflueger
Treasury convenience yields and inflation were positively correlated during the inflationary 1970s-1980s, but negatively pre-WWII and post-2000. These findings are explained in a model where supply-driven inflation gives rise to a “money channel,” raising the cost of holding money and...
Research Briefs·Nov 26, 2024

Climate Capitalists

Niels Gormsen, Kilian Huber, and Sangmin Simon Oh
Firms’ perceived cost of green capital has decreased since the rise of sustainable investing. Sustainable investing has surged since 2016, with green firms’ perceived cost of capital on average 1 percentage point lower than brown firms.
Research Briefs·Nov 26, 2024

Corporate Discount Rates

Niels Gormsen and Kilian Huber
Changes in perceived cost of capital have minimal impact on discount rates in the short- and medium-term; rather, only over the long term (more than 10 years) do discount rates align with the perceived cost of capital.

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Interactive Research Briefs·Aug 21, 2024

Lessons from the Biggest Business Tax Cut in US History

Interactive Research Briefs·Jun 18, 2024

Trace the Historical Origins of Today’s Federal Student Loan Crisis

Interactive Research Briefs·May 14, 2024

Return to Office and the Tenure Distribution

Austin Wright, David Van Dijcke, and Florian Gunsilius
Return-to-office (RTO) mandates drive employees away from firms, with senior employees leaving at the highest rates, likely leading to significant human capital costs in terms of output, productivity, innovation, and competitiveness for the companies implementing strict RTO policies.
Topics: COVID-19, Employment & Wages

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Podcast Nov 26, 2024

Pricing Pollution: Measuring Carbon Externalities for US Corporations

Tess Vigeland and Lubos Pastor
A company’s value includes not just the goods and services it provides but also the societal costs it imposes. In this episode of The Pie, Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth, explores how...
Podcast Nov 12, 2024

Deadly Prescriptions: What Happens When Doctors Compete for Patients

Tess Vigeland and Molly Schnell
When some US states allowed nurse practitioners to prescribe controlled substances without physician oversight, a serious unintended consequence took hold: Doctors found themselves competing with those nurses for patients. Molly Schnell, BFI Saieh Family Fellow and assistant professor at Northwestern...
Topics: Health care
Podcast Nov 5, 2024

An Extra Slice of the Pie, with James Robinson: History, Politics, and the Road to an Economics Nobel

Tess Vigeland, Benjamin Krause, and James Robinson
James Robinson, a University Professor with appointments in both UChicago’s Harris School of Public Policy as well as the Political Science Department in the Division of Social Sciences, is the university’s latest faculty member to win the Nobel Memorial Prize...

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