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Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Stochastic Discount Factor and Estimation of Risk Premia from Portfolios
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2021
The arbitrage pricing theory (APT) attributes differences in expected returns to exposure to systematic risk factors …
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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement
Fehr, Hans - 2019
We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset
Bauer, Adam Michael; Proistosescu, Christian; Wagner, Gernot - 2023
We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. We find that this approach provides economic support for the...
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Diverse Risk Preferences and Heterogeneous Expectations in an Asset Pricing Model
Gomez, Thomas - 2020
We propose a heuristic switching model of an asset market where the agents' choice of heuristic is consistent with their individual risk aversion. They choose between a fundamentalist and a trend-following rule to form expectations about the price of a risky asset. Given their risk aversion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844420
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The Role of Factor Strength and Pricing Errors for Estimation and Inference in Asset Pricing Models
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2019
In this paper we are concerned with the role of factor strength and pricing errors in asset pricing models, and their implications for identification and estimation of risk premia. We establish an explicit relationship between the pricing errors and the presence of weak factors that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859988
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Asset Pricing and the Carbon Beta of Externalities
Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai; Tahri, Ibrahim - 2021
Climate policy needs to set incentives for actors who face imperfect, distorted markets and large uncertainties about the costs and benefits of abatement. Investors price uncertain assets according to their expected return and risk (carbon beta). We study carbon pricing and financial incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013214337
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World Equity Premium Based Risk Aversion Estimates
Pozzi, Lorenzo - 2013
CAPM under power utility is excessively high. Moreover, estimates in the literature vary considerably across countries. We …
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Low Inflation : High Default Risk and High Equity Valuations
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2019
We develop an asset-pricing model with endogenous corporate policies that explains how inflation jointly impacts real … when inflation falls. An increase in inflation has opposite effects, but with smaller magnitudes. In the cross section, the … model predicts the negative impact of inflation on real equity values is stronger for low leverage firms. We find empirical …
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Partisan Bias in Inflation Expectations
Bachmann, Oliver - 2019
We examine partisan bias in inflation expectations. Our dataset includes inflation expectations of the New York Fed …'s Survey of Consumer Expectations over the period June 2013 to June 2018. The results show that inflation expectations were 0 …. Compared to inflation expectations in Democratic-dominated states, inflation expectations in Republican-dominated states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860297
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Pro-Rich Inflation and Optimal Income Taxation
Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2021
This paper studies the implications of an increase in the price of necessities, which disproportionally hurts the poor, for optimal income taxation. Our analyses show that, when the government is utilitarian and disutility from labor supply is linear, the optimal net nominal tax schedule is...
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