by Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane - Publications - Faculty & Research

Q4 1.5 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Business, Government & the International Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Investment Management and Capital Markets Finance Luis Viceira ,... View Details

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Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Paul Gompers Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital Paul Gompers Richard Ruback January 2026 J 3.0 Investment Management View Details

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Market Sales Playbook Field Study Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Robert Simons Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Strategy Execution Accounting & Management Spring 2026... View Details

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Entrepreneurship (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Paul Gompers Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Israel; Startups and Venture Capital Paul Gompers Richard Ruback January 2026 J 3.0 Investment Management View Details

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The Connection Between Volatility and Leverage

By: Emil N. Siriwardane

Professor Siriwardane has co-developed a new econometric model that captures the link between equity volatility and financial leverage, driven by the desire to incorporate the record levels of both leverage and volatility that characterized the 2008 financial crisis... View Details

09 Feb 2018
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No Time For Complacency For U.S. Banks - Aggressive Technology Use Can Create Real Shareholder Value

2017
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Firm Selection and Corporate Cash Holdings

By: Juliane Begenau and Berardino Palazzo

Among stock market entrants, more firms over time are R&D intensive with initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Market Entry and Exit; Supply and Industry; Research and Development

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August 2020
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Financial Market Risk Perceptions and the Macroeconomy

By: Carolin E. Pflueger, Emil Siriwardane and Adi Sunderam

We propose a novel measure of risk perceptions: the price of volatile stocks (PVS), defined as the book-to-market ratio of low-volatility stocks minus the book-to-market ratio of high-volatility stocks. PVS is high when perceived risk directly measured from surveys and... View Details

Keywords: Risk-centric Business Cycles; Cross-section Of Equities; Real Risk-free Rate; Real Investment; Financial Markets; Risk and Uncertainty; Perception; Investment

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23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

Journal of Econometrics Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment By: Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane Abstract—We propose a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

reviews through a sting conducted by Yelp. These data support our main results and shed further light on the economic incentives behind a business's decision to leave fake reviews. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

2020
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How Do Private Equity Fees Vary Across Public Pensions?

By: Juliane Begenau and Emil Siriwardane

We study how investment fees vary within private-capital funds. Net-of-fee return clustering suggests that most funds have two tiers of fees, and we decompose differences across tiers into both management and performance-based fees. Managers of venture capital funds... View Details

Keywords: Pension Funds; Fee Dispersion; Search And Negotiation Frictions; Private Equity; Investment Funds

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