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David Thesmar

David Thesmar

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
54
Citations
15733
World Ranking
1111
National Ranking
682

Overview

David Thesmar is affiliated with MIT in the United States and specializes in research within the broad domain of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, Finance, Accounting, Management Science and Operations Research, and Sociology and Political Science.

The primary focus of David Thesmar's research covers topics such as Financial Markets and Investment Strategies, Forecasting Techniques and Applications, Monetary Policy and Economic Impact, Corporate Finance and Governance, Economic Theories and Models, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, and Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with David Thesmar include:

  • Augustin Landier
  • David Sraer
  • Yueran Ma
  • Tim de Silva
  • Oliver Hart

David Thesmar has published extensively, with a substantial number of contributions appearing in several key academic venues. These publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Finance
  • Review of Financial Studies
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Monetary Economics

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by David Thesmar are:

  • "Banks' exposure to interest rate risk and the transmission of monetary policy," 2020, Journal of Monetary Economics
  • "Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory," 2023, The Quarterly Journal of Economics
  • "Earnings Expectations during the COVID-19 Crisis*," 2020, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
  • "Overreaction in Expectations: Evidence and Theory," 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • "Quantifying Reduced-Form Evidence on Collateral Constraints," 2022, The Journal of Finance

Best Publications

  • The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks Affect Corporate Investment

    Thomas Chaney;David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • The Collateral Channel: How Real Estate Shocks affect Corporate Investment

    Thomas Chaney;David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • PERFORMANCE AND BEHAVIOR OF FAMILY FIRMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE FRENCH STOCK MARKET

    David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • Financial Contracting with Optimistic Entrepreneurs

    Augustin Landier;David Thesmar

  • Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985

    Marianne Bertrand;Antoinette Schoar;David Thesmar

  • Identifying Dynamic Discrete Decision Processes

    Thierry Magnac;David Thesmar

  • Social Networks in the Boardroom

    Francis Kramarz;David Thesmar

  • Individual Investors and Volatility

    Thierry Foucault;David Sraer;David J. Thesmar

  • Housing Collateral and Entrepreneurship

    Martin C. Schmalz;David A. Sraer;David Thesmar

  • Vulnerable banks

    Unknown

  • The Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop and Esbies

    Markus K. Brunnermeier;Luis Garicano;Philip R. Lane;Marco Pagano

  • The Sovereign-Bank Diabolic Loop and ESBies

    Markus K. Brunnermeier;Luis Garicano;Philip R. Lane;Marco Pagano

  • Vulnerable Banks

    Unknown

  • Stock price fragility

    Robin Greenwood;David Thesmar;David Thesmar

  • Banks' Exposure to Interest Rate Risk and The Transmission of Monetary Policy

    Augustin Landier;David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • Sticky Expectations and the Profitability Anomaly

    Jean-Philippe Bouchaud;Philipp Krüger;Augustin Landier;David Thesmar

  • The Cost of Political Connections

    Marianne Bertrand;Francis Kramarz;Antoinette Schoar;David Thesmar

  • Creative Destruction and Firm Organization Choice

    David Thesmar;Mathias Thoenig

  • Growth LBOs

    Unknown

  • The WACC Fallacy: The Real Effects of Using a Unique Discount Rate

    Philipp Krüger;Augustin Landier;David Thesmar

  • The Real Effects of Bank Capital Requirements

    Henri Fraisse;Mathias Lé;David Thesmar;David Thesmar

  • Optimal Dissent in Organizations

    Augustin Landier;David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • Investor Horizons and Corporate Policies

    François Derrien;Ambrus Kecskes;David Thesmar

  • Entrepreneurship and Credit Constraints: Evidence from a French Loan Guarantee Program

    Claire Lelarge;David Sraer;David Thesmar

  • Banking Deregulation and Industry Structure: Evidence from the French Banking Reforms of 1985

    David Thesmar;Antoinette Schoar;Marianne Bertrand

Frequent Co-Authors

Augustin Landier
Augustin Landier Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris
Eric Maurin
Eric Maurin Paris School of Economics
Marianne Bertrand
Marianne Bertrand University of Chicago
Robin Greenwood
Robin Greenwood Harvard University
Philip R. Lane
Philip R. Lane European Central Bank
Ricardo Reis
Ricardo Reis London School of Economics and Political Science
Dimitri Vayanos
Dimitri Vayanos London School of Economics and Political Science
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh Columbia University
Luis Garicano
Luis Garicano London School of Economics and Political Science

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