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introduce a model for asset return dynamics with a drift component, a volatility component and mutually exciting jumps known as …
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Feedback from stock prices to cash flows occurs because information revealed by firms' stock prices influences the actions of competitors. We explore the implications of feedback within a noisy rational expectations setting with incumbent publicly traded firms and privately held new entrants. In...
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mean and volatility of aggregate consumption growth, by a representative agent with a high elasticity of intertemporal … increasing the persistence of volatility fluctuations and their impact on stock prices. This calibration fits the predictive … power of stock prices for future consumption volatility, but implies much greater predictive power of stock prices for …
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We develop a general equilibrium model in which stock prices of innovative firms exhibit quot;bubblesquot; during technological revolutions. In the model, the average productivity of a new technology is uncertain and subject to learning. During technological revolutions, the nature of this...
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relative risk aversion. High stock-price volatility can be explained by incorporating time-varying long-run growth rates and …
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This paper introduces a framework for analyzing the role of financial factors as a source of instability in small open economies. Our basic model is a dynamic open economy model with a tradeable good produced with capital and a country-specific factor. We also assume that firms face credit...
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explaining the surge and reversal in capital flows. In particular, the sharp increase in stock market volatility in the major …
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Major events often trigger abrupt changes in stock prices and volatility. We study the implications of jumps in prices … and volatility on investment strategies. Using the event-risk framework of Duffie, Pan, and Singleton (2000), we provide … become illiquid and the optimal strategy blends both dynamic and buy-and-hold strategies. Jumps in prices and volatility both …
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This paper estimates a business cycle model with endogenous financial asset supply and ambiguity averse investors. Firms' shareholders choose not only production and investment, but also capital structure and payout policy subject to financial frictions. An increase in uncertainty about profits...
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Three mutually uncorrelated economic disturbances that we measure empirically explain 85% of the quarterly variation in real stock market wealth since 1952. A model is employed to interpret these disturbances in terms of three latent primitive shocks. In the short run, shocks that affect the...
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