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We can only estimate the distribution of stock returns but from option prices we observe the distribution of state prices. State prices are the product of risk aversion – the pricing kernel – and the natural probability distribution. The Recovery Theorem enables us to separate these so as to...
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Using a semi-supervised topic model on 7,000,000 New York Times articles spanning 160 years, we test whether topics of media discourse predict future stock and bond market returns to test rational and behavioral hypotheses about market valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse...
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Using a semi-supervised topic model on 7,000,000 New York Times articles spanning 160 years, we test whether topics of media discourse predict future stock and bond market returns to test rational and behavioral hypotheses about market valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse...
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We introduce professional financial advice in households' choice to hold risky financial assets. Depending on their perceived own financial capability, it is either trust in financial advice or their perception of consumer protection that affects more households' willingness to hold risky assets...
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Many companies are setting ambitious targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) per the Paris Agreement. However, there is limited evidence on the market effects of setting those targets. Using a GARCH model with a trend developed by the authors and a panel fixed effects model, this...
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We introduce professional financial advice in households' choice to hold risky financial assets. Consistent with the predictions from a formal model, we present evidence that households' trust in financial advice only matters when their perceived own financial capability is low. Instead, for...
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We introduce professional financial advice in households' choice to hold risky financial assets. Consistent with the predictions from a formal model, we present evidence that households' trust in financial advice only matters when their perceived own financial capability is low. Instead, for...
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Conventional time series analysis, focusing exclusively on a time series at a given scale, lacks the ability to explain the nature of the data generating process. A process equation that successfully explains daily price changes, for example, is unable to characterize the nature of hourly price...
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We characterize the response of U.S., German and British stock, bond and foreign exchange markets to real-time U.S. macroeconomic news. Our analysis is based on a unique data set of high-frequency futures returns for each of the markets. We find that news surprises produce conditional mean...
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