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We study the pricing of uncertainty shocks using a wide-ranging set of options that reveal premia for macroeconomic risks. Portfolios hedging macro uncertainty have historically earned zero or even significantly positive returns, while those exposed to the realization of large shocks have earned...
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We propose a dynamic competitive equilibrium model of limit order trading, based on the premise that investors cannot monitor markets continuously. We study how limit order markets absorb transient liquidity shocks, which occur when a significant fraction of investors lose their willingness and...
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and volatility on investment strategies. Using the event-risk framework of Duffie, Pan, and Singleton (2000), we provide …
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-level equity portfolios. An application of the theory to the empirical results shows (a) large predicted levels of risky asset …
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. After a negative macroeconomic shock, relatively risk tolerant investors sell risky assets while more risk averse investors … risk after a negative macroeconomic shock and lower exposure after a positive shock …
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Assessing the importance of uninsurable wage risk for individual financial choices faces two challenges. First, the identification of the marginal effect requires a measure of at least one component of risk that cannot be diversified or avoided. Moreover, measures of uninsurable wage risk must...
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empirical proxy of an aggregate shock to the cost of equity issuance, which we interpret as a financial shock. We show that this … shock captures systematic risk, and that exposure to this shock helps price the cross section of stock returns including … book-to-market, investment, and size portfolios. We propose a dynamic investment-based model with stochastic equity …
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This paper studies the dynamics of portfolio rebalancing and consumption smoothing in the presence of non-convex portfolio adjustment costs. The goal is to understand a household's response to income and return shocks. The model includes the choice of two assets: one riskless without adjustment...
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The investment theory, in which the expected return varies cross-sectionally with investment, expected profitability …
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We propose an empirical implementation of the consumption-investment problem using the martingale representation … simplifies the investor's task of specifying the investment opportunity set and inherits the computational convenience of the …
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