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the absence of distortionary taxes and induces efficient intergenerational risksharing. If agents are more risk …
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-aged savers may suffer from greater exposure to systematic risk in equity and housing markets. Under the veil of ignorance, a …
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We propose a unified model of limited market integration, asset-price determination, leveraging, and contagion. Investors and firms are located on a circle, and access to markets involves participation costs that increase with distance. Despite the ex-ante symmetry of investors, their strategies...
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The downside risk CAPM (DR-CAPM) can price the cross section of currency returns. The market-beta differential between … high and low interest rate currencies is higher conditional on bad market returns, when the market price of risk is also … performance of the model. The DR-CAPM can jointly rationalize the cross section of equity, equity index options, commodity …
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We use a repeated survey of an Italian bank's clients to test whether investors' risk aversion increases following the … 2008 financial crisis. We find that both a qualitative and a quantitative measure of risk aversion increases substantially …
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" states - following market declines and when market volatility is high - and are contemporaneous with market rebounds. We show …
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We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...
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According to the dynamic version of the Gordon growth model, the long-run expected return on stocks, stock yield, is the sum of the dividend yield on stocks plus some weighted average of expected future growth rates in dividends. We construct a measure of stock yield based on sell-side analysts'...
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an indexed perpetuity - the risk-free payoff - and a long-run mean-variance efficient payoff. "Long-run" moments sum over …
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In this paper we survey the theoretical and empirical literature on market liquidity. We organize both literatures around three basic questions: (a) how to measure illiquidity, (b) how illiquidity relates to underlying market imperfections and other asset characteristics, and (c) how illiquidity...
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