We present a view of housing market effects relating health crises to house prices. Using data on opioid prescriptions and repeat sales in Ohio, we find that house price changes around opioid dispensaries (pharmacies and practitioners) are negatively associated with the quantity of opioids...

We show that the call-put implied volatility spread (IVS) outperforms many well-known predictors of the U.S. equity premium at return horizons up to six months over the period from 1996:1 to 2017:12. The predictive ability of the IVS is unrelated to the dividend yield and is useful in explaining...