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Trading Income And Bank Charter Value During The Financial Crisis: Does Derivatives Dealer Designation Matter?, Peter V. Egly, Jun Sun

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

Derivative markets have exploded over the last decade, remained active in the midst of the 2007-2009 financial crises and continue to be dominated by a small group of bank holding companies (BHC). BHC motives for derivative usage are usually tied to hedging purposes (balance sheet risk management), trading purposes (profit motives) or some combination thereof. This paper examines the relationship between derivative trading income and bank charter value for 27 BHC between 2001Q1-2011Q3. We find that the impact of derivative trading income on bank charter value, using Tobin’s Q, is very small and seems to be tied to BHCs derivatives …

Estimating Dynamic Demand For Airlines, Diego Escobari

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper uses an original panel dataset with posted prices and sales to estimate a dynamic demand. We find that consumers become more price sensitive as time to departure nears which is consistent with having lower valuations. This result provides empirical support to a key theoretical implication in Deneckere and Peck (2012)—high-valuation consumers purchase earlier. We also find that the number of active consumers increases closer to departure.

Highlights

• We use an original dataset with posted prices and sales to estimate a dynamic demand.

• The estimates are consistent with agents forming expectations.

• We find that high-valuation consumers …

Price Discrimination Through Refund Contracts In Airlines, Diego Escobari, Paan Jindapon

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper shows how an airline monopoly uses refundable and non-refundable tickets to screen consumers who are uncertain about their travel. Our theoretical model predicts that the difference between these two fares diminishes as individual demand uncertainty is resolved. Using an original data set from U.S. airline markets, we find strong evidence supporting our model. Price discrimination opportunities through refund contracts decline as the departure date nears and individuals learn about their demand.

Highlights

• We show how an airline screens consumers who are uncertain about their travel.

• The theory explains how an airline sets refundable and non-refundable prices. …

Gender And Business Outcomes Of Black And Hispanic New Entrepreneurs In The United States, Marie T. Mora, Alberto Davila

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

In light of the growing numbers of women of color in the entrepreneurial sector in the United States, employing public-use microdata from the 2007 Survey of Business Owners, this study finds that new firms owned by black and Hispanic women were more likely to cease operations than those owned by their male counterparts or by non-Hispanic whites, even when controlling for other owner- and firm-level characteristics and labor market conditions. These differences occurred despite the existence of public programs designed to help female and minority entrepreneurs, raising the question of efficiency of the current policy infrastructure in the United States.

The Choice Of Airport, Airline, And Departure Date And Time: Estimating The Demand For Flights, Diego Escobari, Cristhian Mellado

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

This chapter estimates the demand for flights in an international air travel market using a unique dataset with detailed information not only on flight choices but also on contemporaneous prices and characteristics of all the alternative non-booked flights. The estimation strategy employs a simple discrete choice random utility model that we use to analyze how choices and its response to prices depend on the departing airport, the identity of the carrier, and the departure date and time. The results show that a 10% increase in prices in a 100-seat aircraft throughout a 100-period selling season decreases quantity demanded by 7.7 …

Ceo Networks And Bank Risk Taking, Dave Jackson, Fang Fang

Economics and Finance Faculty Publications and Presentations

We investigate the impact of CEO networks on bank risk during the recent financial crisis and test whether CEO networks have a bearing on CEO insider trading at the onset of the crisis. We construct a unique dataset of CEO networks based on 97 bank CEOs' social ties, which allows us to assign a Social Network (SN) score to each CEO. Our results provide evidence that CEO networks in 2006, the year prior to the financial crisis, are related to bank risk-taking ex post during the financial crisis. We also find that after controlling for bank and other CEO characteristics, …