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a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that …
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This paper examines the global macro-dynamics of an OLG model with capital and land with rational expectations. Through the interactions between capital accumulation and land prices, the economy experiences phase transitions, endogenously moving back and forth from situations with unique and...
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rational expectations equilibria with asset price bubbles. I study the conditions under which bubble-driven fluctuations may …
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-selling constraints, speculation can generate over- valuation and speculative bubbles. Leverage can substantially inflate speculative … bubbles and leverage limits depend on perceived downside risks. Shifts in beliefs about downside tail scenarios can explain … the emergence and the collapse of leveraged speculative bubbles. Speculative bubbles are related to rational bubbles, but …
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be used to predict bubbles ex ante …
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We measure investors' short- and long-term stock-return expectations using both options and survey data. These expectations at different horizons reveal what investors think their own short-term expectations will be in the future, or forward return expectations. While contemporaneous short-term...
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We provide empirical evidence of a novel liquidity-based transmission mechanism through which monetary policy influences asset markets, develop a model of this mechanism, and assess the ability of the quantitative theory to match the evidence
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This paper evaluates skewness in the cross-section of stock returns in light of predictions from a well-known class of models. Cross-sectional skewness in monthly returns far exceeds what the standard lognormal model of returns would predict. However, skewness in long-run returns substantially...
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We provide evidence that agents have slow-moving beliefs about stock market volatility that lead to initial underreaction to volatility shocks followed by delayed overreaction. These dynamics are mirrored in the VIX and variance risk premiums which reflect investor expectations about volatility...
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It is widely acknowledged that many financial markets exhibit a considerably greater degree of kurtosis (and sometimes also skewness) than is consistent with the Geometric Brownian Motion model of Black and Scholes (1973). Among the many alternative models that have been proposed in this...
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