"This paper examines the impact of short-sale constraints on the magnitude of international diversification benefit for U.S. investors during the period of 1976-1998. The diversification benefit is measured as the increase in expected return when switching from the U.S. equity index portfolio to...

We explicitly solve for the optimal dynamic strategy between a riskless asset and a risky asset with momentum. The optimal portfolio weight depends not only on momentum that characterizes the expected return as in Merton (1971) framework, but also on the historical price path, unlike in Merton....

We study the link between timing of cash flows and expected returns in general equilibrium production economies. Our model incorporates (i) heterogenous exposure to aggregate pro- ductivity shocks across capital vintages, and (ii) an endogenous stock of growth options. Our economy features a...