Why is he in finance? I have never seen him at any finance conferences and he clearly doesn't write finance papers. His research is so bad, not even his covid papers get cited.
Pascal Noel Booth
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No idea how the mortgage paper got in at the QJE. Wait... are they both Harvard econ kids? Oh well, now I know why. Also, how can they be paid consultants for JPMorgan Chase institute and at the same time write papers on their data? My school would consider it a strong conflict of interest
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No idea how the mortgage paper got in at the QJE. Wait... are they both Harvard econ kids? Oh well, now I know why. Also, how can they be paid consultants for JPMorgan Chase institute and at the same time write papers on their data? My school would consider it a strong conflict of interest
Honest question: What is the problem with that paper?
As for the second question, it is very common for authors to do work of some kind for a private firm in exchange for data access.
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So you’re saying that they have never received the following email: “despite glowing referee reports, the QJE can only accept six finance papers per year. I sent your paper to a second editor (Katz) who thinks I should reject the paper (so that we have space for Harvard kids). … “
No idea how the mortgage paper got in at the QJE. Wait... are they both Harvard econ kids? Oh well, now I know why. Also, how can they be paid consultants for JPMorgan Chase institute and at the same time write papers on their data? My school would consider it a strong conflict of interest