2024-10-15
Times New Roman in Latex and Markdown. Someone is making you do this.
notes by topic
coding
2024-07-13
Easy subsample comparisons with esttab.
2023-04-19
Batch renaming in bash.
2022-10-10
Installing .ado files in general–psacalc2 in particular.
2022-08-31
This post is the first in a series of posts based on answers to questions I get frequently via email.
2022-07-19
I’m always hunting for ways to make my work more efficient, error free, and reproducible. I’m particularly obsessed with pipelines that eliminate inconsisten...
2022-03-07
A simple SIR model of Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak.
2022-02-15
While modeling disclosure timing for Political Information Flow and Management Guidance, I felt like the rough and ready reduced-form regression approach tha...
2022-01-13
foreground a stopped job in zsh:
2021-11-22
Indicating fixed effects with reghdfe is relatively straightforward if you use estfe. However, when you try to report the first stage of estimates from ivreg...
2021-11-04
Using the excellent eventstudyinteract this morning and needed to pipe the results to esttab rather than coefplot. A quick Google lead to this which seemed m...
2021-03-13
undoing a wayword unzip
2021-03-26
Stata has some sharp edges. This the second it a series of posts about the things that Stata does by default that you probably don’t want it to do!
2021-03-13
Stata has some sharp edges.
2021-02-16
Safe fixed effect indication in Stata.
2021-01-08
A really simple “todo” list command line tool.
talking
2024-11-03
This week I’ll be in Kazakhstan on a recruiting trip. I’ve put together a few slides to highlight the topics that I’m grappling with in my research and teach...
2024-02-22
Tomorrow I’ll be presenting a recent working paper exploring regulatory uncertainty and financial contracts at the Hong Kong University of Science and Techno...
2024-01-18
I’ll be in Denver, CO on the 18th and 19th discussing two excellent papers.
2023-11-07
I’m giving a talk at the South West University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu. The paper I’ll be presenting is a relatively new exploration of regulator...
2023-10-31
I’m giving a talk at Hong Kong Baptist University, which will introduce a new paper about regulatory uncertainty and financial contracts. Slides are posted; ...
2023-08-06
At AAA this week I’ll be discussing three interesting papers: Shielding from the Pandemic: COVID-19 Exclusion Provision in Debt Contracts The Effects of...
2023-04-05
My coauthor, Scott Dyreng, will be presenting our paper with Elia Ferracuti Renegotiation Costs and Debt Contract Design at the Ohio State University on the...
2022-11-06
I’ll be in Kazakhstan with the undergraduate recruiting team from the 7th to the 12th of November recruiting students. We will be giving a public talk in Alm...
2022-09-03
On 2202.09.03 I’ll be presenting a talk based on my paper Individual Mortgage Lending, Public Corruption, Race and Gender: Evidence from Local Corruption Cra...
2022-06-05
My coauthor, Yadav Gopalan, will be giving a presentation based on our paper “Pay for Prudence” (with Salman Arif, and John Donovan) at the 2022 Colorado Sum...
2202-06-02
I’ll be giving a presentation based on my paper “Pay for Prudence” (with Salman Arif, John Donovan, and Yadav Gopalan) at the 2022 Virginia Tech Accounting R...
2202-03-11
I’ll be giving a talk based on my recently published paper “Financial Shocks to Lenders and the Composition of Financial Covenants” (with Hans Christensen, ...
2021-10-27
I’ll be giving a talk at the Yale Conference on Law and Macroeconomics about the effect of local corruption laws on inequality in mortgage markets, based on ...
2021-05-07
I’ll be giving a workshop at the SMU School of Accounting about how firms use option grants to address executives’ reputation concerns.
2021-02-26
My co-author Yadav Gopalan will be presenting our paper “Pay for Prudence”, written with Salman Arif, John Donovan, at the 33rd Annual Accounting Research Co...
writing
2024-01-30
2023 Retrospective.
2023-10-24
The stable unit treatment value assumption (SUTVA).
2023-07-04
My paper “Pay for Prudence” with Yadav Gopalan, John Donovan, and Salman Arif is now available online at the Journal of Accounting and Economics.
2022-02-24-ukr.md
The invasion1 of Ukraine by Putin’s Russia2 has solidified two simple things in my mind.3 I’m posting this on the data of the beginning of Pu...
2021-06-10
“Financial Shocks to Lenders and the Composition of Financial Covenants” my paper with Hans Christensen, Daniele Macciocchi, and Valeri Nikolaev is now in ...
2021-04-13
The ‘box’ in The Box by Marc Levinson is a shipping container.
2021-04-13
Learning some ‘C’ is worth your time.
reading
2024-10-29
The first lesson is: Do not obey in advance.