Opinions & Popular Writings

  1. Burke T., Cashing in or Losing Big on Cryptocurrency Yield Farms?, Delve Research Article, 15 May 2023.
  2. Augustin P., If the SEC doesn’t regulate crypto assets, a new shadow finance industry could emerge, Commentary on Fortune, 8 May 2021, https://fortune.com/2021/05/08/sec-bitcoin-crypto-etf-stock-price/
  3. Augustin P., V. Sokolovski, M. G. Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio, Il serait sage pour les gouvernements fortement endettés de réduire leurs dettes dès qu’ils le peuvent, Tribune dans Le Monde, 26 April 2021, https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2021/04/26/il-serait-sage-pour-les-gouvernements-fortement-endettes-de-reduire-leurs-dettes-des-qu-ils-le-peuvent_6078106_3232.html.
  4. Augustin P., F. Cong, and Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Sen. David Perdue’s suspicious stock success shows why members of Congress shouldn’t be allowed to trade individual stocks, Commentary on Fortune, 17 December 2020, https://fortune.com/2020/12/17/david-perdue-stock-act-insider-trading/
    • Related coverage by US Congressman Krishnamoorthi
  5. Augustin P., F. Cong, and Marti G. Subrahmanyam, The Kodak loan: Insider trading in a new garb?, Commentary on The Hill, 16 August 2020, https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/512174-the-kodak-loan-insider-trading-in-a-new-garb?rnd=1597518603
  6. Augustin P., V. Sokolovski, M. G. Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio, The key to solving US disunity caused by disease, debt and partisan politics? Hamilton, Commentary on Fortune, 3 July 2020, https://fortune.com/2020/07/03/coronavirus-hamilton-state-debt-crisis-government-budgets/
  7. Augustin P., V. Sokolovski, M. G. Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio, Coronavirus is making clear there is no solidarity in the EU, Commentary on Fortune, 2 May 2020, https://fortune.com/2020/05/02/eu-debt-crisis-bailouts-coronavirus/.
  8. Augustin P., F. Cong, and M. G. Subrahmanyam, Insider trading by Congress? It’s time to fix the law, Commentary on The Hill, 19 April 2020, https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/493497-insider-trading-by-congress-its-time-to-fix-the-law
  9. Augustin P., M. Chernov, L. Schmid, and D. Song, Benchmark interest rates when the government is risky, Commentary on VOX, 10 January 2020, https://voxeu.org/article/benchmark-interest-rates-when-government-risky
  10. Augustin P., and M. G. Subrahmanyam, How hedge funds profit when big companies like Thomas Cook fail, Commentary on The Conversation, 16 October 2019, https://theconversation.com/how-hedge-funds-profit-when-big-companies-like-thomas-cook-fail-124872.
  11. Augustin P., M. Brenner, G. Grass, and M. G. Subrahmanyam, Detecting Illegal Insider Trading, Commentary on Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 27 November 2016, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2015/04/01/more-corporate-actions-more-insider-trading/.
  12. Augustin P., M. Brenner, J. Hu, and M. G. Subrahmanyam, More Corporate Actions, More Insider Trading? Commentary on Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, 1 April 2015, http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2015/04/01/more-corporate-actions-more-insider-trading/.
  13. Augustin P., M. Brenner and M. G. Subrahmanyam, Are all insiders rogue traders? Op-ed on CNBC Commentary, 23 June 2014, http://www.cnbc.com/id/101781961#.

Research Covered in News

  1. Augustin P., A. Rubtsov, and D. Shin (2021),  The impact of derivatives on cash markets: Evidence from the introduction of bitcoin futures contracts.
  2. Augustin P., V. Sokolovski, M. G., Subrahmanyam, and D. Tomio (2021), In Sickness and in Debt: The COVID-19 Impact on Sovereign Credit Risk, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
  3. Augustin P., M. Chernov, and D. Song (2020), Sovereign credit risk and exchange rates: Evidence from CDS quanto spreads,Journal of Financial Economics, 137(1):129-151.
  4. Augustin P., M. Chernov, L. Schmid, and D. Song (2020), Benchmark interest rates when the government is risky, Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming.
  5. Augustin P., H. Boustanifar, J. Breckenfelder, and J. Schnitzler (2018), Sovereign to Corporate Risk Spillovers, Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, 50(5):857-891.
  6. Augustin P., M. Brenner, J. Hu, and M. G. Subrahmanyam (2020), Are Corporate Spin-offs Prone to Insider Trading?, Critical Finance Review, 9(1-2):115-155.
  7. Augustin P., M. Brenner, and M. G. Subrahmanyam (2019), Informed Options Trading prior to Takeover Announcements: Insider Trading?, Management Science, 65(12):5449-5956
  8. Augustin P., M. Brenner, G. Grass, and M. G. Subrahmanyam, How do Informed Investors Trade in the Options Market? (WFA 2017, EFA 2017).