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Uncertainty is a ubiquitous concern emphasized by policymakers. We study how uncertainty affects decision-making by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). We distinguish between the notion of Fed-managed uncertainty vis-a-vis uncertainty that emanates from within the economy and which the Fed...
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Why did the real interest rate decline and the equity premium increase over the last 30 years? This paper assesses the role of uncertainty and credit market frictions. We quantify a model with heterogeneous households using data on asset prices and macro aggregates, as well as on households'...
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In the face of rising climate risk, financial institutions may adapt by transferring such risk to securitizers that … to climate risk may be a drop in the ocean of cash flows. This paper builds a data set of the entire securitization chain … optimal deals by finding the portfolio weights in an asset demand system that targets return and risk. Extrapolating wildfire …
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In the past two decades, a number of banks joined global initiatives aimed to mitigate climate change by "greening" their asset portfolios. We study whether banks that made such commitments have a different emission exposure of their portfolios of syndicated loans than banks that did not. We...
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typically viewed as capturing risk predict disappointment of expectations (and of EBRs). Overall, return spreads typically … attributed to exotic risk factors are explained by predictable movements in non-rational expectations of firms' earnings growth …
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"Economic evaluation of climate policy traditionally treats uncertainty by appealing to expected utility theory. Yet … such circumstances, it has been argued that the axioms of expected utility theory may not be the correct standard of … of abatement is more sensitive to risk aversion than to ambiguity aversion because, according to our data, the inter …
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We propose a framework where perceptions of uncertainty are driven by the interaction between cognitive constraints and the way that people learn about it--whether information is presented sequentially or simultaneously. People can learn about uncertainty by observing the distribution of...
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. We focus on regret theory and the use of "regret lotteries" for motivating behavior change. Here, findings from one … theory and experiments, we replicate regret lotteries as the superior one-shot incentive; however, for repeated decisions the …
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This paper examines the regulation of technological innovation direction under uncertainty about potential harms. We develop a model with two competing technological paths and analyze various regulatory interventions. Our findings show that market forces tend to inefficiently concentrate...
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"The current account can be understood as the outcome of investment decisions made by domestic and foreign investors. These decisions can be decomposed into a portfolio rebalancing and a portfolio growth component. This paper provides empirical evidence of the importance of portfolio rebalancing...
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