This paper examines compensation for the underwriting activity in firm commitment initial public offerings (IPOs) of common stock in the U.S. When compensation for origination, management and marketing efforts are excluded from total underwriter compensation, we find that the portion of the...

This paper uses the supply side approach developed by Ibbotson and Chen to analyze average stock returns for the period 1926-2004. Using the quot;earningsquot; model variation, it is easy to see how each component, including real earnings growth and the P/E ratio, contributed to the average...

The century low, near-zero short-term interest rates in the USA, Euro Area, the UK and Japan after the Great Recession of 2008/2009 and the European Sovereign Debt Crisis of 2010-2013 make the non-normality and non-lognormality of short-term interest rates quite clear. To uncover the changing...

The empirical implications of the consumption-oriented capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) are examined, and its performance is compared with a model based on the market portfolio. The CCAPM is estimated after adjusting for measurement problems associated with reported consumption data. The...

This paper implements the time-state preference model in a multi-period economy, deriving the prices of primitive securities from the prices of call options on aggregate consumption. These prices permit an equilibrium valuation of assets with uncertain payoffs at many future dates. Furthermore,...

This paper builds on the lessons from recent financial crises to develop an analytically tractable risk management metric that more accurately measures potential exposures to financial crises and also captures volatility during non-crisis times. We develop a multiple-regime stress-loss risk...