We jointly re-specify the relative purchasing power parity (RPPP) and uncovered interest rate parity (UIP) conditions as the (log) ratio of stochastic discount factors by inverting the market price of risk formula. Our empirical model provides new insights, which show that violations to UIP and...

Using several measures of information share, we examine price discovery across the inter-dealer and dealer-customer market tiers in the currencies market. In the spot market, the information share of the inter-dealer tier is higher than that of the dealer-customer one for non-financial sector...

This paper studies whether trading costs or transparency/tradability are more important to price discovery using a unique dataset of currency options that trade simultaneously in two parallel markets. The Over-The-Counter (OTC) market is characterized by sophisticated investors, low trading...

We derive the equilibrium asset expected returns when there is ambiguity in asset expected returns, as well as ambiguity in asset return variances. In our model, ambiguity risk is systematic in nature and is non-diversifiable. Under regularity conditions, expected asset returns are linearly...

We explore the firm's required return on equity when it has a target debt ratio (TDR). We show that a firm's expected return is increasing in the product of the distance between its debt ratio (DR) from its TDR (E[TDR-DR]), its speed of adjustment, and the spread of its tax benefits of debt over...

The slope of the portfolio return and consumption growth cospectrum contains predictive information about future real economic activity, future recession probabilities, the risk aversion coefficient, as well as future expected returns. Commonly used economic variables do not subsume the...

I identify intraday jumps and cojumps in exchange rates controlling for volatility patterns and relate these events to pre-scheduled macroeconomic news and market conditions. Event study results show that preceding jump and cojump events, exchange rate quote volume, illiquidity, signed order...

Exchange traded funds (ETF) provide a means for investors to access assets indirectly that may be accessible at a high cost otherwise. I show that liquidity segmentation can explain the tendency for ETFs to trade at a premium to NAV as well as the life-cycle pattern in premiums. ETFs with larger...

We systematically examine how bank characteristics are related to a bank's financial contagion exposure. Examining capital requirements, we find evidence that while tier 1 capital requirements are negatively related to a bank's contagion exposure, the sum of tier 1 and tier 2 capital ratios are...

This paper examines an alternative avenue through which trading in options can expand investors' opportunity sets, unrelated to private information, differing opinions, endowments, or trading restrictions in the stock market. Investors can synthetically replicate the return profile of optionable...