In this paper, motivated by existing and growing evidence on multiple macroeconomic volatilities, we extend the long-run risks model of Bansal and Yaron (2004) by allowing both a long- and a short-run volatility components in the evolution of economic fundamentals. With this extension, the new...

We propose a unsupervised learning approach to construct latent factor model for cross sectional asset returns where firm characteristics instrument for the dynamic factor exposures. Firm characteristics are clustered with consideration to their prior economic content. Our method can also be...

A general approach for calibrating Monte Carlo models to the market prices of benchmark securities is presented. Starting from a given model for market dynamics (price diffusion, rate diffusion, etc.), the algorithm corrects price-misspecifications and finite-sample effects in the simulation by...