Publications

The Time-Varying Price of Financial Intermediation in the Mortgage Market (with Stephanie Lo and Paul Willen)

Biases in Information Selection and Processing: Survey Evidence from the Pandemic (with Ester Faia, Vincenzo Pezone, and Basit Zafar)

Mortgage-Backed Securities (with David Lucca and James Vickery) 

FinTech Lending (with Tobias Berg and Manju Puri)

Survey Experiments on Economic Expectations (with Basit Zafar)

Expectations with Endogenous Information Acquisition: An Experimental Investigation (with Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Mirko Wiederholt, and Basit Zafar) 

Predictably Unequal? The Effects of Machine Learning on Credit Markets (with Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Tarun Ramadorai, and Ansgar Walther)

Scale Effects on Efficiency and Profitability in the Swiss Banking Sector (with Marc Blatter)

What Would You Do With $500? Spending Responses to Gains, Losses, News and Loans (with Greg Kaplan and Basit Zafar) 

How Do Mortgage Refinances Affect Debt, Default, and Spending? Evidence from HARP (with Joshua Abel) 

The Sensitivity of Housing Demand to Financing Conditions: Evidence from a Survey (with Basit Zafar)

Understanding Mortgage Spreads (with Nina Boyarchenko and David Lucca) 

Home Price Expectations and Behavior: Evidence from a Randomized Information Experiment (with Luis Armona and Basit Zafar) 

The Role of Technology in Mortgage Lending (with Matthew Plosser, Philipp Schnabl, and James Vickery)

Regional Heterogeneity and the Refinancing Channel of Monetary Policy (with Martin Beraja, Erik Hurst, and Joseph Vavra)

Tracking and Stress-Testing U.S. Household Leverage (with Benedict Guttman-Kenney and Andrew Haughwout)

Payment Size, Negative Equity, and Mortgage Default (with Paul Willen) 

To Buy or Not to Buy: Consumer Constraints in the Housing Market (with Basit Zafar)

The Rescue of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (with Scott Frame, Joseph Tracy, and James Vickery)

Securitization and the Fixed-Rate Mortgage (with James Vickery)

The Endowment Effect (with Keith Ericson)

The Rising Gap between Primary and Secondary Mortgage Rates  (with Laurie Goodman, David Lucca, Laurel Madar, Linsey Molloy, and Paul Willen)

What Goes Up Must Come Down? Experimental Evidence on Intuitive Forecasting (with John Beshears, James Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte Madrian) 

Natural Expectations, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Asset Pricing (with Benjamin Hebert and David Laibson)

Investment Dynamics with Natural Expectations (with Benjamin Hebert and David Laibson)

Expectations as Endowments: Evidence on Reference-Dependent Preferences from Exchange and Valuation Experiments (with Keith Ericson)

Insuring Consumption Using Income-Linked Assets (with Paul Willen) 

Natural Expectations and Macroeconomic Fluctuations (with David Laibson and Brock Mendel)

Another Hidden Cost of Incentives: The Detrimental Effect on Norm Enforcement (with Stephan Meier)