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We propose and implement a procedure to dynamically hedge climate change risk. To create our hedge target, we extract … hedge portfolios. We discipline the exercise by using third-party ESG scores of firms to model their climate risk exposures … managing climate risk …
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This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant-level information from the U.S. Census Bureau. A typical target firm improves its production efficiency in the three years after an activist intervention, and the improvements are most...
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-generating strategy typically lowers the fund's risk-adjusted excess return due to frictions such as price pressure. When the manager is … via both management and incentive fees, we show that (i) the high-powered incentive fees encourage excessive risk taking … sufficiently poor fund performances substantially curtail managerial risk-taking, provide strong incentives to de-leverage, and …
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This paper examines monetary policy in Rudebusch and Svensson's (1999) two equation macroeconomic model when the policymaker recognizes that the model is an approximation and is uncertain about the quality of that approximation. It is argued that the minimax approach of robust control provides a...
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We quantify and study state-level economic policy uncertainty. Tapping digital archives for nearly 3,500 local newspapers, we construct three monthly indexes for each state: one that captures state and local sources of policy uncertainty (EPU-S), one that captures national and international...
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Alternative corporate tax systems differ in their ability to adapt to changes in the rate of inflation. Absent complete indexing of depreciation allowances, a tax system may use the expected inflation rate to set accelerated depreciation allowances in a way that minimizes the welfare loss from...
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, their consequences, and how risk from fire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal …
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In this paper, we investigate whether U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs) with strong and independent risk management … functions have lower enterprise-wide risk. We hand-collect information on the organizational structure of the risk management … function at the 74 largest publicly-listed BHCs, and use this information to construct a Risk Management Index (RMI) that …
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This paper studies empirically the links between international trade and labor income risk faced by workers in the … United States. We use longitudinal data on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk at the industry level. We … then combine our estimates of persistent labor income risk with measures of exposure to international trade to analyze the …
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