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Rocco Huang
Economist
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Research Interests
Concurrent Position
- Fellow, Wharton Financial Institutions Center, University of Pennsylvania
Publications in Refereed Journals
- "Evaluating the Real Effect of Bank Branching Deregulation: Comparing Contiguous Counties Across U.S. State Borders," Journal of Financial Economics. 87(3) (March 2008): 678-705.
- "Tolerance for Uncertainty and the Growth of Informationally Opaque Industries," Journal of Development Economics. 87(2) (October 2008): 333-353.
- "Distance and Trade: Disentangling Unfamiliarity Effects and the Transport Cost Effects," European Economic Review 51(1) (January 2007): 161-181.
Current Working Papers
- "Internal Capital Markets and Corporate Politics in a Banking Group," with Martijn Cremers and Zacharias Sautner, Working Paper 09-31, November 2009.

- "Creditor Control of Free Cash Flow," Working Paper 09-30, November 2009.

- "The Dark Side of Bank Wholesale Funding," with Lev Ratnovski, Working Paper 09-3, November 2008.

- "Internal Capital Markets: The Bright Side of Corporate Politics" (with Zach Sautner and Martijn Cremers), September 2008.
- "The Effect of Monetary Tightening on Local Banks," Working Paper 08-20, September 2008.

Honors
- Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science
- European Central Bank Lamfalussy Fellowship