The recovery rate on defaulted corporate bonds has a time-varying distribution. We propose machine learning approaches for intertemporal analysis of U.S. corporate bonds' recovery rates with a large number of predictors. The most informative macroeconomic variables are selected from a broad...

In this paper we address three main objections of behavioral finance to the theory of rational finance, considered as “anomalies” the theory of rational finance cannot explain: (i) Predictability of asset returns; (ii) The Equity Premium; (iii) The Volatility Puzzle. We offer resolutions of...