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In this paper we examine the quantitative effects of margin regulation on volatility in asset markets. We consider a … of collateral constraints leads to strong excess volatility. Thus, a regulation of margin requirements may have … stabilizing effects. However, in line with the empirical evidence on margin regulation in U.S. stock markets, we show that changes …
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Households face earnings risk which is non-normal and varies by age and over the income distribution. We show that allowing for these rich features of earnings dynamics, in the context of a structurally estimated life-cycle portfolio choice model, helps to rationalize the limited participation...
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We empirically investigated the impact of regulatory risk retention methods on credit ratings and pricing at issuance … using a sample of European securitization tranches issued in the period 2011-2021. European regulation is based on the … investigated the impact of these methods on the pricing of securitization tranches and found that investors adjust the risk premium …
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We develop a model to examine how discount rates affect the nature and composition of innovation within an industry. Challenging conventional wisdom, we show that higher discount rates do not discourage firm innovation when accounting for the industry equilibrium. Higher discount rates deter...
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I study the causal effect of bond investor demand on the financing and investment decisions of nonfinancial firms using granular data on the bond transactions of U.S. insurance companies. Liquidity inflows from insurance premiums combined with insurers’ persistent investment preferences...
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We study the effects of low short-term interest rates on the optimal portfolio allocation in Markowitz portfolios and Risk parity portfolios. We propose a measure of Portfolio Instabil-ity, gauging the amount of optimal portfolio shifts needed to respond to exogenous shocks to the expected risk...
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normal volatility dynamics and macroeconomic uncertainty. Building on intuition from the dynamic asset pricing literature, we …
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We examine international stock return comovements using country-industry and country-style portfolios as the base portfolios. We first establish that parsimonious risk-based factor models capture the covariance structure of the data better than the popular Heston-Rouwenhorst (1994) model. We...
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We apply a dynamic dividend-discount model to analyse unexpected housing returns in a panel of eight euro area countries which together comprise 90% of euro area GDP. The application of this model allows for a decomposition of house price movements into movements in rent (cash-flow) and expected...
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Introducing bounded rationality into a standard consumption based asset pricing model with a representative agent and …
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