The International Center For Finance at the Yale School of Management provides active support for research in Financial Economics by its fellows and disseminates their work to the world's academic and professional communities. Please see papers below for the latest research at the International Center for Finance.
2024
Private Equity and Financial Stability: Evidence from Failed-Bank Resolution in the Crisis
A Counterfactual Analysis of Amazon’s Acquisitions Under the 2023 Merger Guidelines
2023
Social Progress and Corporate Culture
2022
Multinational Banks and Financial Stability
2021
Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Covid Era: Key Insights and Challenges for the Future
What Explains Differences in Finance Research Productivity During the Pandemic?
2020
Designing the Main Street Lending Program: Challenges and Options
Bartik Instruments: What, When, Why, and How
Bad Credit, No Problem? Credit and Labor Market Consequences of Bad Credit Reports
The Banque Royale Ceiling and the Imagery of Finance in the Age of Absolutism
Is the Risk of Sea Level Rise Capitalized in Residential Real Estate?
2019
This series, edited by Geert Rouwenhorst and Will Goetzmann, along with several ICF fellows Howard Bodenhorn and Eugene White, raises the broad awareness of the importance of history in the consideration of current economy.
ICF Book Publications
The Origins of Corporations The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages
Germain Sicard proves that Europe’s first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies operating in Toulouse, rather than seventeenth-century English and Dutch trading companies as commonly believed. He shows that the corporate form derives from a unique ownership contract from Medieval Europe called pariage, and a culture of strong property rights and municipal self-governance. Based on archival research, Sicard’s 1952 thesis has been translated into English with an introduction that places the work in the context of new institutional economics and legal theory. It is an important contribution to research on the history and legal origins of the corporation.
The Great Mirror of Folly, Finance, Culture, and the Stock Market Crash of 1720
The world’s first global stock market bubble suddenly burst in 1720, destroying the dreams and fortunes of speculators in London, Paris, and Amsterdam virtually overnight. The co-editors are Geert Rouwenhorst, Will Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado-Boulder, and Tim Young, Associate Curator of Modern Books & Manuscripts at the Beinecke Library.
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets
From the invention of interest in Mesopotamia and the origin of paper money in China, to the creation of mutual funds, inflation-indexed bonds, and global financial securities, here is a sweeping survey of financial innovations that have changed the world. Written by a distinguished group of experts--including Robert Shiller, Niall Ferguson, Valerie Hansen, and many others--and wonderfully illustrated with over one hundred color photographs of landmark financial documents (including the first paper money), The Origins of Value traces the evolution of finance through 4,000 years of history.
Upcoming Publications
The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets (Chinese version)