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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises

Stein, Jerome L. - 2009

recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large …

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Business Tax Policy Under Default Risk

Comincioli, Nicola - 2019

In this article we use a stochastic model with one representative firm to study business tax policy under default risk. We will show that, for a given tax rate, the government has an incentive to reduce (increase) financial instability and default costs if its objective function is welfare (tax...

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A Welfare Analysis on Start-Up Decisions Under Default Risk

Comincioli, Nicola; Panteghini, Paolo M.; Vergalli, Sergio - 2021

This short article studies the tax effects on a start-up investment decision under uncertainty. Since the representative firm can decide both when to invest and how much to borrow, the distortive effects are twofold. We thus show that the deadweight loss (namely, the ratio between the welfare...

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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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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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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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The Saving Glut of the Rich and the Rise in Household Debt

Mian, Atif R. - 2020

Rising income inequality since the 1980s in the United States has generated a substantial increase in saving by the top of the income distribution, which we call the saving glut of the rich. The saving glut of the rich has been as large as the global saving glut, and it has not been associated...

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Securitization of mortgage debt, asset prices and international risk sharing

Hoffmann, Mathias; Nitschka, Thomas - 2009

We explore the impact of mortgage securitization on the international diversification of macroeconomic risk. By making … mortgage-related risks internationally tradeable, securitization contributes considerably to better international consumption … risk sharing: we find that countries with the most highly developed markets for securitized mortgage debt have consumption …

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Liquidity risk, credit risk and the overnight interest rate spread: A stochastic volatility modelling approach

Beirne, John; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2010

In this paper we model the volatility of the spread between the overnight interest rate and the central bank policy rate (the policy spread) for the euro area and the UK during the two main phases of the financial crisis that began in late 2007. During the crisis, the policy spread exhibited...

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The Loan Puzzle. A Study of Loans to Different Groups in the USA

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2020

We study loans from banking and non-banking lenders to different groups of borrowers in order to unveil significant differences on how those respond to a shock and evaluate possible alternative explanations for such differences. The objective is to gain insights useful to explain the loan...

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