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We study an economy subject to recurrent disasters when agents have imprecise information about the frequency and duration of the disasters. Uncertainty about the persistence of states can lead to seemingly pessimistic behavior in bad times and optimistic behavior in good times. In a disaster,...
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Is shareholder interest in corporate social responsibility driven by pecuniary motives (abnormal rates of return) or …
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many questions asked. We show how stablecoins can maintain a constant price even though they face run risk and pay no … interest. Stablecoin holders are indirectly compensated for stablecoin run risk because they can lend the coins to levered … stablecoin can support a $1 peg even with higher levels of run risk …
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In line with Keynes' intuition, volatility in the stock market and in real economic activity are linked by expectations of long term profits. We show that analysts' optimism about the long term earnings growth of S&P 500 firms is associated with a near term boom in major US financial markets,...
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machine learning model specifications. Each investor forms return forecasts from their own specific model using data inputs … disagreement and future returns. A decile spread portfolio that is short stocks with high forecast disagreement and long stocks …
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Given police abolitionism's new visibility after the 2020 racial justice protests, we assess stakeholder beliefs on the protests' stock impacts on police-affiliated firms. Experts generally underestimate the firms' stock gains, except situated experts like community organizers and police...
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This paper reviews recent developments in macro and finance on the relationship between financial risk and the real …-term decline - in the variance risk premium, and time variation in conditional skewness. We also introduce two new data series …
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is partially segmented from other financial markets: the prices of short-rate and bond supply risk are set by specialized …
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In over-the-counter (OTC) markets, customers search for counterparties. Little is known about this process, however, because existing data is comprised of transaction records, which are only informative about the end of a successful search. Leveraging data from the leading trading platform for...
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to earn higher returns, or investing more broadly to reduce risk through diversification. Using a novel, deal …, but are also the least risky. Returns and risk are both increasing in industry or geographic concentration. And while GP …-specific return variation (e.g., skill) only accounts for 4%-6% of the total return variation of a typical investment, it accounts for …
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