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This paper reviews recent developments in macro and finance on the relationship between financial risk and the real …-term decline - in the variance risk premium, and time variation in conditional skewness. We also introduce two new data series …
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We measure investors' short- and long-term stock-return expectations using both options and survey data. These expectations at different horizons reveal what investors think their own short-term expectations will be in the future, or forward return expectations. While contemporaneous short-term...
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We survey the nascent literature on machine learning in the study of financial markets. We highlight the best examples of what this line of research has to offer and recommend promising directions for future research. This survey is designed for both financial economists interested in grasping...
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We characterize how risk evolves during a crisis. Using high-frequency data, we find that the first two principal … different, the risk dynamics share remarkably common features: PC1 shocks come solely from asset volatility, while PC2 shocks …, we provide novel identification of risk dynamics by linking these changes to news about the virus and epidemiological …
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valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse addresses the challenge of sample size even when major disasters are …
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Cross-sectional forecasts of conservative and optimistic biases in analyst earnings estimates predict a stock's future returns, especially for firms that are hard to value. Trading strategies--whether based on the component of analyst bias that is correlated with major return anomalies or the...
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We use a large cross-section of equity returns to estimate a rich affine model of equity prices, dividends, returns and their dynamics. Using the model, we price dividend strips of the aggregate market index, as well as any other well-diversified equity portfolio. We do not use any dividend...
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We use arbitrage activity in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets to characterize the frictions and constraints facing intermediaries. The average pairwise correlation between the 29 arbitrage spreads that we study is 21%. These low correlations are inconsistent with canonical...
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For investors, gold is an asset without a yield that is attractive in times of low and negative real interest rates. Gold also has an embedded put option because investors can sell it to those who value its use as jewelry or as a productive input. This paper presents an approach for pricing gold...
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demanding a premium for hedging risk. This paper examines the consistency of those explanations with returns on dynamically … on synthetic options -- with the variance risk premium shrinking towards zero -- while various drivers of the cost and … risk of hedging options exposures have declined, consistent with a model in which intermediaries drive option prices …
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