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Standard sufficient conditions for identification in the regression discontinuity design are continuity of the conditional expectation of counterfactual outcomes in the running variable. These continuity assumptions may not be plausible if agents are able to manipulate the running variable. This...
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and forecasting. Building on the theory of continuous-time arbitrage-free price processes and the theory of quadratic … the large covariance matrices relevant in asset pricing, asset allocation and financial risk management applications …
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We propose methods for evaluating density forecasts. We focus primarily on methods" that are applicable regardless of the particular user's loss function. We illustrate the methods" with a detailed simulation example, and then we present an application to density forecasting of" daily stock...
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We study the effect of releasing public information about productivity or monetary shocks when agents learn from nominal prices. While public releases have the benefit of providing new information, they can have the cost of reducing the informational efficiency of the price system. We show that,...
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Despite the clear success of forecast combination in many economic environments, several important issues remain incompletely resolved. The issues relate to selection of the set of forecasts to combine, and whether some form of additional regularization (e.g., shrinkage) is desirable. Against...
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Evidence of stock return predictability by financial ratios is still controversial, as documented by inconsistent results for in-sample and out-of-sample regressions and by substantial parameter instability. This paper shows that these seemingly incompatible results can be reconciled if the...
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specifications asset allocations in the presence of estimation risk exhibit sensitivity to those differences …
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Value at Risk has become the standard measure of market risk employed by financial institutions for both internal and … methodologies developed so far give satisfactory solutions. Interpreting Value at Risk as a quantile of future portfolio values … assumptions invoked by existing methodologies (such as normality or i.i.d. returns). The Conditional Value at Risk or CAViaR model …
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(and the coefficient of relative risk aversion) from regressions of consumption growth on uncertainty in consumption growth … imply estimates of prudence and risk aversion that are unrealistically low. Using numerical solutions to a fairly standard …
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population distribution of the random coefficients. We show that the risk of a predictor based on a non-parametric kernel … estimate of the Tweedie correction is asymptotically equivalent to the risk of a predictor that treats the correlated …
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