Ralf Roland Meisenzahl
  • Home
  • Research
  • CV
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Research
  • CV
  • Contact
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

Research

(Show Abstracts)

Journal Articles

“The Real Effects of Credit Line Drawdowns.” International Journal of Central Banking (2022) Vol 18(3), pp. 321-397. [link][FEDS WP][latest version]
​Best Paper Prize at the 6th ​International Finance and Banking Society Conference
with Jose Berrospide
Picture
“The Rise of Shadow Banking: Evidence from Capital Regulation.” Review of Financial Studies (2021) Vol. 34(5), pp. 2181-2235. - Editor's Choice [link][CEPR WP] [FEDS WP][latest version]
with Rustom Irani, Rajkamal Iyer, and José-Luis Peydró 
Picture
“Banks Monitoring: Evidence from Syndicated Loans.”  Journal of Financial Economics (2021) Vol. 139(2), pp. 452-477. ​[link][Final version]
with Matthew Gustafson and Ivan Ivanov
 
Picture
“Pipeline Risk in Leveraged Loan Syndication.” Review of Financial Studies (2020) Vol. 33(12), pp. 5660–5705. ​[link][Final Version]
with Max Bruche and Frederic Malherbe 

Picture
“Public Goods Institutions, Human Capital, and Growth: Evidence from German History” Review of Economic Studies (2020) Vol. 87(2), pp. 959-996. [link][CEP WP] [FEDS WP][Final Version]
with Jeremiah Dittmar  
previously circulated as “State Capacity and Public Goods: Institutional Change, Human Capital, and Growth in Early Modern Germany.”  (2016) CEP Discussion Paper No 1418. 
Picture
“Loan Sales and Bank Liquidity Management: Evidence from a U.S. Credit Register,” Review of Financial Studies (2017) Vol. 30(10), pp. 3455-3501. [link] [FEDS WP] 
with Rustom Irani
Picture
“The Real Effects of Liquidity During the Financial Crisis: Evidence from Automobiles.” Quarterly Journal of Economics (2017) Vol. 132(1), pp. 317-365. [link] [NBER WP] [Finaning Share Data]
with Efraim Benmelech and Rodney Ramcharan
Picture
“Can Financing Constraints Explain the Evolution of the Firm Size Distribution?” Review of Industrial Organization (2016), Vol. 48(2), pp. 123-147. [link]

Picture
“Organization Matters: Trade Union Behavior in Peace and War.” Journal of Comparative Economics (2015), Vol. 43(4), pp. 919-937. [link]
Picture
“Verifying the State of Financing Constraints: Evidence from US Business Credit Contracts,” Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control (2014), Vol. 43, pp. 58-77. [link] [FEDS WP]
Picture
“The Unreliability of Credit-to-GDP Ratio Gaps in Real-Time: Implications for Counter-Cyclical Capital Buffers.” International Journal of Central Banking (2011), Vol. 7(4), pp. 261-298. [link] [FEDS WP] with Rochelle Edge
Picture

Articles in Edited Volumes

“How Britain Lost its Competitive Edge: Competence in the Second Industrial Revolution,” in Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development (2015), edited by Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V.C. Nye. Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 307-336.
Picture
“The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions.” in The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (2012), edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 443-479. [NBER WP]
with Joel Mokyr

Picture

Books

“Finanzmärkte, Corporate Governance, IuK-Technologien: Treibende Faktoren für den Wandel in der Industrie,” (Financial markets, corporate governance, and information technologies, 2003). ifo Beiträge zur Wirtschaftsforschung, vol. 11, Munich (with Hans-Günther Vieweg, Michael Reinhard, Alfons Weichenrieder, and Bent Nowak).
Picture

Working Papers

Nonbanks, Banks, and Monetary Policy: U.S. Loan-Level Evidence since the 1990s [link]
with David Elliott, José-Luis Peydró, and Bryce C. Turner  
Picture
The Dollar and Corporate Borrowing Costs
CEPR Working Paper No. 14892  [link] [CEPR WP]
with Friederike Niepmann and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr  
Picture
The Research University, Invention, and Industry: Evidence from Germany 1760-1900 [link]
with Jeremiah Dittmar
Picture
Crisis Liquidity Facility with Nonbank Counterparties: Lessons from the Term-Asset Backed Securities Loan Facility [link]
with Karen Pence
Picture
Nonbank Lenders as Global Shock Absorbers: Evidence from US Monetary Policy Spillovers [link]
with David Elliott and José-Luis Peydró
Picture
Changes in Ownership and Performance of Deteriorating Syndicated Loans [link] 
with Marissunta Giannetti
Picture

Work in Progress

Miscellaneous Publications

"Internal Migration Patterns after the 2008 Financial Crisis: Evidence from a Credit Panel." (with Daniel Gallego), Chicago FED Insights, Nov 16, 2022.[link]

“How the Federal Reserve's central bank swap lines have supported U.S. corporate borrowers in the leveraged loan market” (with Annie McCrone, Friederike Niepmann, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr), FEDS Note, November 12, 2020.[link]


“The lasting impact of epidemics” (with Jeremiah Dittmar), CentrePiece - The Magazine for Economic Performance 594, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, November 2, 2020. [link]

“How Central Bank Swap Lines Affect the Leveraged Loan Market” (with Annie McCrone, Friederike Niepmann, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr), Chicago Fed Letter, No. 446, September 2020.[link]

"The U.S. Syndicated Term Loan Market: Who holds what and when?" FEDS Note (with Seung Jung Lee, Dan Li, and Martin J. Sicilian), November 25, 2019.[link]

"
Household Debt-to-Income Ratios in the Enhanced Financial Accounts" FEDS Note (with Michael Ahn and Mike Batty), January 11, 2018. [link]

"From credit risk to pipeline risk: Why loan syndication is a risky business
" VoxEU.org (with Max Bruche and Frederic Malherbe), September 11, 2017. [link]

"Auto Financing during and after the Great Recession" FEDS Note, June 22nd, 2017. [link]

"Funding Agreement-Backed Securities in the Enhanced Financial Account" FEDS Note (with Nathan Foley-Fisher, Borghan Narajabad, Maria G. Perozek, and Stephane H. Verani), August 5th, 2016. [link]

"
Impact of the ‘great bailout’: Evidence from car sales" VoxEU.org (with Efraim Benmelech and Rodney Ramcharan), June 11, 2016. [link]

"The origins of growth: How states institutions forged during the Protestant Reformation drove development" VoxEU.org (with Jeremiah Dittmar), April 26, 2016. [link]

“Off-Balance Sheet Items of Depository Institutions in the Enhanced Financial Accounts” FEDS Note, August 28th, 2015. [link]
 
“The Federal Reserve's Overnight and Term Reverse Repurchase Agreement Operations in the Financial Accounts of the United States” FEDS Note, March 24th, 2015. [link]
 
“Is education policy innovation policy?” VoxEU.org (with Joel Mokyr), June 13th, 2011. [link]



​The contents of this website are my own and should not be interpreted as reflecting the views or policies of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Board of Governors, or staff of the Federal Reserve System.


Home                                                   Research                                                   CV                                                  Contact
Proudly powered by Weebly