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Overview

Douglas W. Diamond is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with specific interests in Finance and Accounting as well as broader areas of Economics and Econometrics.

The scientist's main research topics include:

  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Global Financial Crisis and Policies
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital
  • Economic theories and models
  • Economic Theory and Policy

Douglas W. Diamond has contributed to several frequent publication venues. These include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Financial Economics
  • Journal of Political Economy
  • Quarterly Review

Recent papers authored by Diamond are as follows:

  • Liquidity, pledgeability, and the nature of lending, 2021, Journal of Financial Economics
  • Nobel Lecture: Financial Intermediaries and Financial Crises, 2023, Journal of Political Economy
  • Liquidity, Pledgeability, and the Nature of Lending, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Liquidity, Pledgeability, and the Nature of Lending, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Long and Short of Financial Development, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent co-authors with whom Douglas W. Diamond has collaborated include:

  • Yunzhi Hu
  • Raghuram G. Rajan
  • Andrea L. Eisfeldt
  • Hyun Song Shin

Best Publications

  • Financial Intermediation and Delegated Monitoring

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity

    Douglas W. Diamond;Philip H. Dybvig

  • Disclosure, Liquidity, and the Cost of Capital

    Douglas W. Diamond;Robert E. Verrecchia

  • Monitoring and Reputation: The Choice between Bank Loans and Directly Placed Debt

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation, and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking

    Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Reputation Acquisition in Debt Markets

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Reputation Acquisition in Debt Markets

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Debt Maturity Structure and Liquidity Risk

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Constraints on short-selling and asset price adjustment to private information

    Douglas W. Diamond;Robert E. Verrecchia

  • A Theory of Bank Capital

    Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Optimal Release of Information By Firms

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Liquidity Shortages and Banking Crises

    Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Information aggregation in a noisy rational expectations economy

    Douglas W. Diamond;Robert E. Verrecchia

  • The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies

    Douglas Diamond;Raghuram Rajan

  • Seniority and maturity of debt contracts

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Disclosure, Liquidity, and the Cost of Capital

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  • Fear of Fire Sales, Illiquidity Seeking, and Credit Freezes

    Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity

    Unknown

  • Leverage, Moral Hazard, and Liquidity

    Viral V. Acharya;S. Viswanathan

  • The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System

    Kenneth R. French;Martin N. Baily;John Campbell;John H. Cochrane

  • Banking Theory, Deposit Insurance, and Bank Regulation

    Douglas W. Diamond;Philip H. Dybvig

  • Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises: Theory, Policy Implications and Applications

    Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan

  • Liquidity, Banks, and Markets

    Douglas W. Diamond

  • Liquidity Risk, Liquidity Creation and Financial Fragility: A Theory of Banking

    Douglas W. Diamond;Douglas W. Diamond;Raghuram G. Rajan;Raghuram G. Rajan;Raghuram G. Rajan

Frequent Co-Authors

Raghuram G. Rajan
Raghuram G. Rajan University of Chicago
Anil K. Kashyap
Anil K. Kashyap University of Chicago
John H. Cochrane
John H. Cochrane Hoover Institution
Robert J. Shiller
Robert J. Shiller Yale University
John Y. Campbell
John Y. Campbell Harvard University
Darrell Duffie
Darrell Duffie Stanford University
Kenneth R. French
Kenneth R. French Dartmouth College
Matthew J. Slaughter
Matthew J. Slaughter Dartmouth College
David S. Scharfstein
David S. Scharfstein Harvard University
Frederic S. Mishkin
Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University

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