Financial Market Effects of FOMC Communication: Evidence from a New Event-Study Database

Miguel Acosta², Andrea Ajello³, Michael Bauer¹, Francesca Loria³, Silvia Miranda-Agrippino⁴

1: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco; 2: University of Wisconsin-Madison; 3: Federal Reserve Board of Governors; 4: Oxford University

Discussant: Xiyuan Ma (Singapore Management University)

Monetary Transmission in Equity Markets: Evidence from Financial Intermediaries

Pranav Garg¹, Matthew Famiglietti²

1: Yale University; 2: Yale University

Discussant: Andreas Schrimpf (BIS)

Under Pressure? Central Bank Independence Meets Blockchain Prediction Markets

Barry Eichengreen³, Ganesh Viswanath¹, Junxuan Wang², Zijie Wang¹

1: Warwick Business School; 2: HKUST Guangzhou; 3: UC Berkeley

Discussant: Michael Bauer (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)

Risk on the Run: Public Pensions, Migration Risk and Pivot to Alternatives

Rahul Singh Chauhan

University of Chicago

Discussant: Aleksandar Andonov (University of Amsterdam)

Distant Investments: Decoding Mutual Fund Skills with Large Language Models

Xiyuan Ma¹, Spiegel Matthew², Zhang Hong¹, Zhou Yijun³

1: Singapore Management University; 2: Yale University; 3: Florida State University

Discussant: Laurent Barras (University of Luxembourg)

Gambling with Dividends

Alexander Klos¹, Jan Müller-Dethard², Niklas Reinhardt¹, Martin Weber²

1: Kiel University; 2: University of Mannheim

Discussant: Samuli Knüpfer (Aalto University)

Investing When Fewer Expect to Parent: Fertility Expectations and Financial Risk-Taking

Judith Bohnenkamp¹, Ville Rantala¹, Melina Vosse²

1: Univeristy of Miami; 2: University of San Diego

Discussant: Arna Olafsson (Copenhagen Business School)

Monetary Policy Wealth Effects: Evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc Shock

Martin Brown^1,3, Daniel Hoechle², Alejandra Perez³, Markus Schmid³

1: Study Center Gerzensee; 2: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland; 3: University of St.Gallen

Discussant: Tobin Hanspal (WU Vienna University of Economics and Business)

Fintech to the (Worker) Rescue: Earned Wage Access, Financial Health and Employee Retention

Jose Murillo³, Boris Vallee¹, Dolly Yu²

1: INSEAD; 2: Yale School of Management; 3: Centrito

Discussant: Andreas Fuster (EPFL)

Financial Technology and the Inequality Gap

Roxana Mihet

University of Lausanne, Swiss Finance Institute, CEPR

Discussant: Yucheng Yang (University of Zurich)