“Noise”
ONE-WORD · 1986
Fischer Black
Five letters that named a field. The presidential address became the namesake of the thing it described.
Sangmin Oh
Gallery of Titles
Paper titles that earned their economy.
Gallery of Titles · Floor Plan
Select a room.
Each room holds the titles that share a particular kind of economy.
“Momentum”
ONE-WORD · 1993
Narasimhan Jegadeesh and Sheridan Titman
A title that became both a factor and a noun. Almost no asset-pricing paper has done either.
“Dams”
ONE-WORD · 2007
Esther Duflo and Rohini Pande
A QJE paper on infrastructure that needs only the physical object to do its framing.
“Betting Against Beta”
WORDPLAY · 2014
Andrea Frazzini and Lasse Heje Pedersen
Three words that name the strategy, the violation of CAPM, and the wager all at once.
“Money Doctors”
COOL PHRASES · 2015
Nicola Gennaioli, Andrei Shleifer, Robert Vishny
A metaphor that reframed the entire delegation problem. Advisors are not vendors; they are physicians of risk.
“Clicking on Heaven's Door: The Effect of Immigrant Legalization on Crime”
CULTURAL REFERENCE · 2017
Paolo Pinotti
A Dylan reference in which the click of a granted document replaces the knock at the gate.
“Beeps”
ONE-WORD · 2017
Jeffrey C. Ely
An onomatopoeia in AER. The signal being studied is also the title above the abstract.
“Carry”
ONE-WORD · 2018
Ralph Koijen, Tobias Moskowitz, Lasse Pedersen, Evert Vrugt
A trading concept condensed into the smallest possible label.
“Flow”
ONE-WORD · 2019
Caitlin Dannhauser and Jeffrey Pontiff
The thing being studied, fully named, in four letters.
“Indebted Demand”
COOL PHRASES · 2021
Atif Mian, Ludwig Straub, Amir Sufi
A phrase that crystallizes the mechanism in two words: debt creating the demand that creates more debt.
“Leverage”
ONE-WORD · 2022
Tano Santos and Pietro Veronesi
The mechanism and the title share the same noun. No further framing needed.
“Selfish Corporations”
COOL PHRASES · 2023
Emanuele Colonnelli, Niels Gormsen, Tim McQuade
Two words that imply a moral question and an empirical answer in the same breath.
“Succession”
ONE-WORD · 2023
Thomas Geelen and Jakub Hajda
Borrowed from the show, but also literally about firm succession. Double meaning, single word.
“Concealed Carry”
WORDPLAY · 2024
Spencer Andrews, Riccardo Colacito, Mariano M. Croce, Federico Gavazzoni
A pun that doubles as the strategy. Carry trades hidden inside other positions.
“Dinner Table Alphas”
COOL PHRASES · 2024
Sean Cao, Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Tianchen Zhao
A phrase that relocates the source of edge from the trading desk to the household conversation.
“Bridges”
ONE-WORD · 2024
Anna Tompsett
The physical infrastructure, the metaphor, and the paper, all in one noun.
“Suez”
ONE-WORD · 2025
David S. Jacks, Christopher M. Meissner and Nikolaus Wolf
A canal and a century of trade economics in four letters.