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Thomas Lambert

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Banking, Corporate Finance, FinTech, Political Economy

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REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Liquidity Creation, Investment, and Growth
with Thorsten Beck, Robin Döttling and Mathijs van Dijk
Journal of Economic Growth, 2022, forthcoming
Banks, Political Capital, and Growth
with Wolf Wagner and Eden Zhang
Review of Corporate Finance Studies, 2022, forthcoming [code, data, reproducibility certificate]
Winning Connections? Special Interests and the Sale of Failed Banks
with Deniz Igan, Wolf Wagner and Eden Zhang
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2022, 140, 106496
Security Token Offerings
with Daniel Liebau and Peter Roosenboom
Small Business Economics, 2022, 59, 299–325
Lobbying on Regulatory Enforcement Actions: Evidence from U.S. Commercial and Savings Banks
Management Science, 2019, 65, 2545-2572
Collective Bargaining and Mergers and Acquisitions Activity around the World
with Farooq Ahmad
Journal of Banking and Finance, 2019, 99, 21-40
The Political Economy of Financial Systems: Evidence from Suffrage Reforms in the Last Two Centuries
with Hans Degryse and Armin Schwienbacher
Economic Journal, 2018, 128, 1433-1475
Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd
with Paul Belleflamme and Armin Schwienbacher
Journal of Business Venturing, 2014, 29, 585-609. [Lead article]
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Bank Lobbying: Regulatory Capture and Beyond
with Deniz Igan, 2019, in Emilios Avgouleas and David Donald, eds.: The Political Economy of Financial Regulation (Cambridge University Press)
Endogenous Political Institutions and Financial Development
with Paolo Volpin, 2018, in Thorsten Beck and Ross Levine, eds.: Handbook of Finance and Development (Edward Elgar)
The Crowd-Entrepreneur Relationship in Startup Financing
with Aleksandrina Ralcheva and Peter Roosenboom, 2018, in Douglas Cumming and Lars Hornuf, eds.: The Economics of Crowdfunding (Palgrave Macmillan)
Effets de réseau et financement participatif : une analyse empirique
with Paul Belleflamme and Armin Schwienbacher, 2018, in François Moreau and Yann Nicolas, eds.: Financement participatif : une voie d’avenir pour la culture ? (Presses de Sciences Po)
An Industrial Organization Framework to Understand the Strategies of Crowdfunding Platforms
with Paul Belleflamme, 2016, in Jérôme Méric, Isabelle Maque, and Julienne Brabet, eds.: International Perspectives on Crowdfunding (Emerald)
BOOKS
Comptabilité et analyse des états financiers. Exercices et corrigés
with Loic Decaux and Yannick de Harlez, (1st ed.) 2014, (2nd ed.) 2016, (De Boeck)
Does Democracy Shape International Merger Activity?
with Farooq Ahmad, Arthur Petit-Romec, and Jose Martin-Flores
December 2022 [CASCAD reproducibility certificate]

From 101,834 cross-border deals announced between 1985 and 2018, we find that merger flows involve acquirers from more democratic countries than their targets
(In)dependent Central Banks
with Vasso Ioannidou, Sotirios Kokas, and Alexander Michaelides
October 2022

Appointments of central bank governors have become more politically motivated over time, especially after institutional reforms aiming to insulate central banks from political interference
Crowdfunding Entrepreneurship: Evidence from US Counties
with Aleksandrina Ralcheva and Peter Roosenboom
October 2022

Kickstarter activity significantly boosts the rate of entrepreneurship, which in turn contributes to aggregate growth in the US
The Rise of Crowdfunding
June 2022

I provide an overview of the crowdfunding phenomenon from an entrepreneurial finance perspective
Spillovers in Crowdfunding
with Paul Belleflamme and Armin Schwienbacher
December 2021 — This paper supersedes “Crowdfunding Dynamics,” CESifo Working Paper No. 7797

Recurrent backers, by boosting funding dynamics within projects and generating positive spillovers across projects, are a major source of competitive advantage for crowdfunding platforms
The Politics of the Paycheck Protection Program
with Deniz Igan and Prachi Mishra, CEPR Discussion Paper No. 16842
December 2021

Both firm- and industry-level lobbying is associated with larger PPP lending during the pandemic
Decentralizing Supervision: Evidence from the Banking Sector in China
with Di Gong and Wolf Wagner
COMING SOON
Political Ideology and International Capital Allocation, by Elisabeth Kempf, Mancy Luo, Larissa Schäfer, and Margarita Tsoutsoura
2022 EFA Meetings
Financial Policymaking after Crises: Public vs. Private Interests, by Orkun Saka, Yuemei Ji and Paul De Grauwe
2021 FBF-SAFE-SRB Conference on Bank Crisis Management
Deputization, by Bruce Carlin, Tarik Umar and Hanyi Yi
2021 AFFI Meetings
Debt in Political Campaigns, by Alexei Ovtchinnikov and Philip Valta
2020 Helsinki Workshop on Finance and Politics
Who Pays a Visit to Brussels? Cross-Border Firm Value Effects of Meetings with European Commissioners, by Kizkitza Biguri and Joerg Stahl
2019 EFA Meetings
Financing Legislators, by Renée Adams and Thomas Mosk
2019 IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on Challenges to Financial Stability
The Effects of Credit Supply on Wage Inequality between and within Firms, by Christian Moser, Farzad Saidi and Benjamin Wirth
2018 CEPR Endless Summer Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance
The Effect of Bank Supervision on Risk Taking: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, by John Kandrac and Bernd Schlusche
2018 EFA Meetings
Political Lending Cycles and Real Outcomes: Evidence from Turkey, by Cagatay Bircan and Orkun Saka
2018 CEPR Swiss Winter Conference on Financial Intermediation
The Value of Offshore Secrets: Evidence from the Panama Papers, by James O’Donovan, Hannes Wagner and Stefan Zeume
2017 EFA Meetings
Finance and Inequality: The Distributional Impacts of Bank Credit Rationing, by Ali Choudhary and Anil Jain
2016 EFA Meetings
2021Research grant on “Decentralized Exchanges” (Paris-Dauphine FinTech Chair)
2020ERIM Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Researcher
2019RSM Funding Award
2019NWO Veni grant (Dutch Research Council)
2017Emerald Citations of Excellence Award
2016Best Paper Award at the Cass Business School Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference
2016Banque de France Foundation Best Thesis in Monetary and Financial Economics Prize
2016AFFI–FNEGE Best Finance Thesis Award (French Finance Association)
2016EACES Best Thesis Award (European Association for Comparative Economic Studies)
2015Research grant on crowdfunding (French Ministry DEPS–Labex ICCA)
2014LSM-UCLouvain Research Excellence Award
2014Finalist FMA Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance (Financial Management Association)
2013FNRS Travel Grant (Belgian Fund for Scientific Research) 

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