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On the Gains to International Trade in Risky Financial Assets

Davis, Steven J. - 2000

This paper develops and implements a framework for quantifying the gains to international trade in risky financial assets. The framework can handle may agents, many assets, incomplete markets and limited participation in asset markets. It delivers closed-form analytic solutions for consumption,...

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Asset Prices and Aggregate Demand in a "Covid-19" Shock : A Model of Endogenous Risk Intolerance and LSAPs

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2020

In this paper we: (i) provide a model of the endogenous risk intolerance and severe aggregate demand contractions following a large real (non-financial) shock; and (ii) demonstrate the effectiveness of Large Scale Asset Purchases (LSAPs) in addressing these contractions. The key mechanism stems...

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Two Monetary Tools : Interest Rates and Haircuts

Ashcraft, Adam - 2010

We study a production economy with multiple sectors financed by issuing securities to agents who face capital … tool, we study the introduction of the legacy Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). By considering …

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What Ties Return Volatilities to Price Valuations and Fundamentals?

David, Alexander - 2009

Stock and Treasury bond comovement, volatilities, and their relations to their price valuations and fundamentals change stochastically over time, both in magnitude and direction. These stochastic changes are explained by a general equilibrium model in which agents learn about composite economic...

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Do Security Analysts Speak in Two Tongues?

Malmendier, Ulrike - 2007

Why do security analysts issue overly positive recommendations? We propose a novel approach to distinguish strategic motives (e.g., generating small-investor purchases and pleasing management) from nonstrategic motives (genuine overoptimism). We argue that nonstrategic distorters tend to issue...

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Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity

Brunnermeier, Markus K. - 2007

empirically documented features that market liquidity (i) can suddenly dry up, (ii) has commonality across securities, (iii) is …

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Is Home Bias in Assets Related to Home Bias in Goods?

van Wincoop, Eric - 2006

Obstfeld and Rogoff (2000) have reinvigorated an old literature on the link between home bias in the goods market and home bias in the asset market by arguing that trade costs in the goods market can account for the observed portfolio home bias. The key link between home bias in the two markets...

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Agency Conflicts, Asset Substitution, and Securitization

Gan, Yingjin Hila - 2006

Asset-backed securities represent one of the largest and fastest growing financial markets. Under securitization … a whole loan. We examine how outsourcing impacts performance using data on 357 commercial mortgage-backed securities … deals with over 46,000 individual loans. To alleviate agency conflicts in managing troubled loans, underwriters often sell …

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Asset Prices When Agents are Marked-to-Market

Gorton, Gary - 2006

"Risk management" in securities markets refers to the oversight of portfolio managers and professional traders when …

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Household Ownership of Variable Annuities

Brown, Jeffrey - 2006

Variable annuities have been one of the most rapidly growing financial products of the last two decades. Between 1996 and 2004, nominal sales of variable annuities in the U.S. more than doubled, from $51 billion to $130 billion. Variable annuities now account for approximately nearly two thirds...

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