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Alex Edmans

Professor of Finance, London Business School

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The World Economy

26th April 2020

What Drives the Cost of Default Insurance?

One of the many negative consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic is that companies may default. Companies going bankrupt are indeed less important than

Category iconCorporate Finance,  The World Economy

26th April 2020

The Effect of the ECB’s Bond Buying Program

The European Central Bank is launching a €750 billion bond buying program to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Will this work? We obviously can't predict

Category iconThe World Economy

29th October 2019

Capital Markets in China

China will soon become the largest economy in the world, but many Westerners (myself included) know very little about it. I’ve thus tried to

Category iconInvestment Strategies,  The World Economy

29th October 2019

Corporate Finance in China

China will soon become the largest economy in the world, but many Westerners (myself included) know very little about it. I've thus tried to educate

Category iconCorporate Finance,  The World Economy

29th October 2019

How Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Stock Prices

John Cochrane of Stanford has written an excellent review of recent advances and future research directions in macro-finance. Macro finance studies

Category iconInvestment Strategies,  The World Economy

29th October 2019

Are US Industries Becoming More Concentrated?

Industry concentration has increased substantially in the US over the last two decades. But is this a problem? The obvious answer is yes - it allows

Category iconCorporate Finance,  The World Economy

30th June 2017

Is Short Termism Really A Problem?

"Myopia [short-termism] is a first-order problem faced by the modern firm. In the last century, firms were predominantly capital-intensive, but

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  The World Economy

5th May 2017

Corporate Governance in China

China will soon become the largest economy in the world, but many Westerners (myself included) know very little about it. Moreover, the vast majority

Category iconCorporate Finance,  Corporate Governance,  The World Economy

11th March 2017

Blockchains: How they work, and how they may transform the world

We hear blockchains mentioned all the time, but very few people know what they actually are, how they work, and what effect they may have.  The

Category iconThe World Economy

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