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more highly correlated; moreover, at these times, money supply positively affects financial market liquidity, albeit with a … lag of two weeks. During normal times, increases in mutual fund flows enhance stock market liquidity and trading volume …, but during financial crises, U.S. government bond funds see higher inflows, resulting in increased bond market liquidity …
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Building on recent developments in behavioral asset pricing, we develop a model in which an increase in the dispersion of investor beliefs under short-selling constraints predicts a "bubble," or a rise in a stock's price above its fundamental value. Our model predicts that managers respond to...
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This paper re-examines the classic question of how a household should optimally allocate its portfolio between risky stocks and risk-free bonds over its lifecycle. We show that allowing for the wage indexation of social security benefits fundamentally alters the optimal decisions. Moreover, the...
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We exploit regional variations in exposure to heat stress to study if physical climate risk is priced in municipal and corporate bonds as well as in equity markets. We find that local exposure to damages related to heat stress equaling 1% of GDP is associated with municipal bond yield spreads...
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duration of the disasters. Uncertainty about the persistence of states can lead to seemingly pessimistic behavior in bad times … and optimistic behavior in good times. In a disaster, uncertainty about duration acts as an amplification mechanism … welfare cost of parameter uncertainty can be extreme. However, in advance of a disaster, uncertainty about the arrival rate …
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green investment as the uncertainty of subsidies rises. This effect is identified from weather-driven fluctuations in air … pollution that lead to fluctuations in subsidy allocations: Firms in cities where weather-driven subsidy uncertainty is high … focused on environmental technologies are more affected. The results suggest that policy uncertainty may originate not only …
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Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this "creditor-on-creditor violence" trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority in default. However,...
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The system GMM estimator for dynamic panel data models combines moment conditions for the model in first differences with moment conditions for the model in levels. It has been shown to improve on the GMM estimator in the first differenced model in terms of bias and root mean squared error....
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