Peter M. DeMarzo

Stanford Graduate School of Business

Professor of Finance

655 Knight Way

Stanford, CA 94305-5015

United States

http://www.stanford.edu/people/pdemarzo

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (33)

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Fallacies, Irrelevant Facts, and Myths in the Discussion of Capital Regulation: Why Bank Equity is Not Socially Expensive

Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods 2013/23, Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 161, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 13-7
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 04 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2016
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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capital regulation, financial institutions, capital structure, 'too big to fail,' systemic risk, bank equity, contingent capital, Basel, market discipline

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Debt Overhang and Capital Regulation

Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Working Paper No. 114, MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2012/5
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Mar 2012
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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capital regulation, financial institutions, capital structure, “too big to fail,” systemic risk, bank equity, debt overhang, underinvestment, recapitalization, deleveraging, bankruptcy costs, Basel

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The Pooling and Tranching of Securities: A Model of Informed Intermediation

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 06 Jul 2004
Peter M. DeMarzo
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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pooling, tranching, financial intermediation, adverse selection, asymmetric information, mortgage backed securities, asset backed securities, security design

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The Leverage Ratchet Effect

Journal of Finance, Volume 73, Issue 1, February 2018
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 02 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2018
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Stanford Graduate School of Business
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capital structure, leverage, agency costs of debt, dynamic capital structure, tradeoff theory of capital structure, capital regulation, bank equity, debt overhang, under-investment, recapitalization, deleveraging, bankruptcy costs

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Persuasion Bias, Social Influence, and Uni-Dimensional Opinions

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Dec 2001
Peter M. DeMarzo, Jeffrey Zwiebel and Dimitri Vayanos
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and London School of Economics
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Persuasion, Social Influence, Uni-Dimensional Opinions, Social Networks, Belief Formation, Bounded Rationality, Hierarchies, Communication

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Optimal Long-Term Financial Contracting with Privately Observed Cash Flows

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Jul 2004
Peter M. DeMarzo and Michael J. Fishman
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Optimal contracting, security design, capital structure, debt maturity, agency, moral hazard, principal agent, dynamic programming, incentives, cash flow diversion, asset substitution, default, credit line, compensating balance, debt, equity, dividend policy

A Continuous-Time Agency Model of Optimal Contracting and Capital Structure

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 30 Jun 2004
Peter M. DeMarzo and Yuliy Sannikov
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Optimal contracting, security design, capital structure, debt maturity, agency, moral hazard, principal agent, continuous time, incentives, cash flow diversion, asset substitution, default, credit line, compensating balance, debt, equity, dividend policy

A Continuous-Time Agency Model of Optimal Contracting and Capital Structure

NBER Working Paper No. w10615
Number of pages: 1 Posted: 28 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2023
Peter M. DeMarzo and Yuliy Sannikov
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics
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Agency and Optimal Investment Dynamics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Mar 2003
Peter M. DeMarzo and Michael J. Fishman
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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Agency and Optimal Investment Dynamics

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 151-188, 2007
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Peter M. DeMarzo and Michael J. Fishman
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance

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Optimal Trading by a 'Large Shareholder'

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Jul 2001
Peter M. DeMarzo and Branko Urosevic
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences
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Discounting Tax Shields and the Unlevered Cost of Capital

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Oct 2009
Peter M. DeMarzo
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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WACC, Tax shields, valuation, unlevered, cost of capital

Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 17
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 29 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Independent
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disclosure, disclosure dynamics, strategic disclosure, disclosure timing, earnings announcement, stochastic volatility, skewness

Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-08-028
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Mar 2009
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Independent
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Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

NBER Working Paper No. w16485
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2023
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of WarwickHebrew University of Jerusalem
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Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6985
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 02 Dec 2008
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Independent
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disclosure, disclosure dynamics, disclosure timing, earnings announcement, skewness, stochastic volatility, strategic disclosure

Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8680
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 22 Dec 2011
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Independent
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disclosure dynamics, disclosure timing, disclosure,, earnings announcement, skewness, stochastic volatility, strategic disclosure

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Comments of 71 Concerned Economists: Using Procurement Auctions to Allocate Broadband Stimulus Grants

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 15 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2014
New York University - Stern School of Business, Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, American University - Washington College of Law, The Brattle Group, University of Maryland, Baltimore County - Department of Public Policy, Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford University, Columbia University, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder - College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Zurich - Department of Economics, Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, University of Michigan, Georgetown University - Department of Economics, University of Zurich, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Technology Policy Institute, Hoover Institution and Department of Economics, Stanford University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of California, Berkeley - Business & Public Policy Group, University of North Texas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Clemson University, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration, Public Utility Research Center, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, National Economic Research Associates Inc. (NERA) (Deceased), Independent, Penn State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Technology Policy Institute, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST), Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Economics, Finance, Accounting (EFA), Stanford University, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Stanford University, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Northwestern University - Department of Economics, University of Chicago - Department of Economics, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Toulouse School of EconomicsColumbia University - Columbia Institute for Tele Information, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics, Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Georgetown University - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business, Chapman University - Economic Science Institute, University of Maryland - Department of Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management, Technology Policy Institute, Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS), University of Nevada, Las Vegas - College of Business - Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics, Charles River Associates (CRA) and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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Risking Other People's Money: Gambling, Limited Liability, and Optimal Incentives

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 12 Sep 2013
Peter M. DeMarzo, Dmitry Livdan and Alexei Tchistyi
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
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Relative Wealth Concerns and Financial Bubbles

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 05 Dec 2005
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ron Kaniel and Ilan Kremer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester - Simon Business School and Independent
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bubbles, relative, wealth, overlapping, generations

Relative Wealth Concerns and Financial Bubbles

Sixteenth Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 Nov 2006
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ron Kaniel and Ilan Kremer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester - Simon Business School and Independent
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Relative Wealth Concerns and Financial Bubbles

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 19-50, 2008
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School

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Learning, Termination, and Payout Policy in Dynamic Incentive Contracts

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 16-31
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 23 Jun 2016
Peter M. DeMarzo and Yuliy Sannikov
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford GSB
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real options, inside information, moral hazard, dynamic contracts, payout policy, information rents

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Diversification as a Public Good: Community Effects in Portfolio Choice

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Mar 2002
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ron Kaniel and Ilan Kremer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester - Simon Business School and Independent
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public good, community, diversification, portfolio choice, home bias

Portfolio Liquidation and Security Design with Private Information

Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 15-24
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Peter M. DeMarzo, David Frankel and Yu Jin
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Iowa State University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
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Security design, asymmetric information, adverse selection, simple debt, informational sensitivity, tranching

Portfolio Liquidation and Security Design with Private Information

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Peter M. DeMarzo
Stanford Graduate School of Business
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security design, signaling, securitization, pooling, tranching, ABS, asset-backed securities

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Robust Option Pricing: Hannan and Blackwell Meet Black and Scholes

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 28 Jan 2016
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer, Ilan Kremer and Yishay Mansour
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of WarwickHebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University
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Option Pricing, Replication, No arbitrage pricing, approachability, calibration, robust optimization, online algorithms

Relative Pay for Non-Relative Performance: Keeping Up with the Joneses with Optimal Contracts

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 29 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2017
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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contracting, externality, keeping up with Joneses, relative performance, moral hazard, peers

Relative Pay for Non-Relative Performance: Keeping Up with the Joneses with Optimal Contracts

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11538
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 03 Oct 2016
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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contract, Joneses, manager, pay performance, relative

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Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 25 Aug 2004
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer and Andrzej Skrzypacz
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Independent and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Bidding with Securities: Auctions and Security Design

NBER Working Paper No. w10891
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2022
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ilan Kremer and Andrzej Skrzypacz
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Independent and Stanford University - Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Relative Wealth Concerns and Technology Bubbles

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Feb 2005
Peter M. DeMarzo, Ron Kaniel and Ilan Kremer
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester - Simon Business School and Independent
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Bubble, technology, relative wealth, Joneses, herding, over-investment

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Dynamic Agency and the Q Theory of Investment

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 30 Apr 2012
Peter M. DeMarzo, Michael J. Fishman, Zhiguo He and Neng Wang
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance, University of Chicago - Finance and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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Contracting in Peer Networks

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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contracting, peer performance, keeping up with Joneses, peer, relative wage, network, moral hazard

Contracting in Peer Networks

NBER Working Paper No. w28378
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 27 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2023
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Contracting in Peer Networks

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16177
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 14 Jul 2021
Peter M. DeMarzo and Ron Kaniel
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Rochester - Simon Business School
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Leverage Dynamics Without Commitment

NBER Working Paper No. w22799
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Peter M. DeMarzo and Zhiguo He
Stanford Graduate School of Business and University of Chicago - Finance
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Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-32
Number of pages: 103 Posted: 24 Mar 2021
Peter M. DeMarzo, Zhiguo He and Fabrice Tourre
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago - Finance and Copenhagen Business School
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Sovereign Debt Ratchets and Welfare Destruction

NBER Working Paper No. w28599
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2023
Peter M. DeMarzo, Zhiguo He and Fabrice Tourre
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago - Finance and Copenhagen Business School
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Optimal Long-Term Financial Contracting

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 20, Issue 6, pp. 2079-2128, 2007
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Peter M. DeMarzo and Michael J. Fishman
Stanford Graduate School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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G30, G32, G35, D82, D86, D92

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Ownership Dynamics and Asset Pricing with a Large Shareholder

Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 114, pp. 774-815, August 2006
Posted: 01 Nov 2006
Peter M. DeMarzo and Branko Urosevic
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences

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Optimal Incentive Contracts When Agents Can Save, Borrow, and Default

Posted: 02 Nov 1999
David S. Bizer and Peter M. DeMarzo
Lehman Brothers and Stanford Graduate School of Business

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Corporate Incentives for Hedging and Hedge Accounting

REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES, Vol 8 No 3
Posted: 25 Aug 1998
Peter M. DeMarzo and Darrell Duffie
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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A Liquidity Based Model of Security Design

Posted: 25 Jul 1998
Peter M. DeMarzo and Darrell Duffie
Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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