CHRISTIAN C. OPP
Associate Professor of Finance, University of Rochester Simon Business School
Research Associate, NBER
NEWS / UPDATES
Working paper "Market Power in the Securities Lending Market" [SSRN] receives the Annual Conference in Financial Economics at IDC-Herzliya Best Paper Award
Forthcoming in the Review of Financial Studies: "Private Renegotiations and Government Interventions in Credit Chains" [SSRN]
Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Economics: "Dynamic Asset (Mis)Pricing: Build-up vs. Resolution Anomalies" [Link] [SSRN]
RESEARCH TOPICS
I study financial institutions’ and markets’ impact on prices and allocative efficiency.
Real anomalies - the aggregate real effects of financial market anomalies (alphas).
Venture capital investments' impact on economic growth and welfare.
The role of intermediation chains, disclosure, and security design in affecting the efficiency of over-the-counter (OTC) markets.
How the desirability of information production shapes the relative efficiency of OTC and centralized markets.
Regulations' impact on credit rating agencies' rating standards and the allocation of credit.
Large shareholders' influence on inefficiencies associated with financial distress.
The cross-sectional sensitivity of credit to shocks affecting bank capital.
METHODOLOGY
I have developed a modeling approach for granular dynamic economies that yields exact global solutions and only requires inverting sparse matrices. Several of my papers showcase this approach in settings with:
Capital investment with adjustment costs and occasionally binding constraints
Granular general equilibrium economies with persistent heterogeneity