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The monetary unit assumption of financial accounting assumes a stable currency (i.e., constant purchasing power over time). Yet, even during periods of low inflation or deflation, nominal financial statements violate this assumption. I posit that, while the effects of inflation are not...
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The rare disaster hypothesis suggests that the extraordinarily high postwar U.S. equity premium resulted because investors ex ante demanded compensation for unlikely but calamitous risks that they happened not to incur. Although convincing in theory, empirical tests of the rare disaster...
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The long-run consumption risk (LRR) model is a promising approach to resolve prominent asset pricing puzzles. The simulated method of moments (SMM) provides a natural framework to estimate its deep parameters, but caveats concern model solubility and weak identification. We propose a twostep...
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, are relevant to forecasting economic growth and stock returns, and whether they contain information that is orthogonal to … power for both GDP growth and excess stock returns, and that the results are robust to the inclusion of information …
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This paper studies the relationship between the amount of public information that stock market prices incorporate and … vectors of assets accessing multidimensional information under two alternative market structures. In the first (the … want to trade. I show that informed traders’ incentives to exploit multidimensional private information depend on the …
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accruals contain information about changes in discount rates, or that firms manage earnings in response to market …
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This paper shows that information effects per se are not responsible for the Giffen goods anomaly affecting competitive … traders’ demands in multi- asset, noisy rational expectations equilibrium models. The role that information plays in traders …
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The basic paradigm of asset pricing is in vibrant flux. The purely rational approach is being subsumed by a broader approach based upon the psychology of investors. In this approach, security expected returns are determined by both risk and misvaluation. This survey sketches a framework for...
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conditional asset pricing model where risk premia and risk sensitivities are conditioned on a range of financial information …
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We propose a novel approach to cross-sectional equities sample selection, derived from best market practice in index construction and focused on investability. Using the U.K. market as a template, we first demonstrate how the popular Datastream dataset is plagued by data deficiencies that would...
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