We find that investor sentiment should affect a firm's employment policy in a world with moral hazard and noise traders. Consistent with the model's predictions, we show that higher sentiment among US investors leads to: (1) higher employment growth worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the...

I propose a Capital Asset Pricing Model in which investor demand exhibits a speculative component. In equilibrium, investors' optimal trade-off between diversification and speculation generates predictable patterns for stocks with extreme book-to-market ratios. Consistent with the model...

We develop a multi-country model with moral hazard and noise traders, and show that investor sentiment should affect employment growth both domestically and abroad. Using a large sample of international industry-level data, we find strong support for the model's predictions. We show that US...

We develop a utility and asset pricing theory that features a novel measure of tail risk. Our model determines investor demand for both left and right-tail risk premia from an indifference curve incorporating tolerance for variance and tail risk. We show that the systematic tail risk factors...

The existing literature shows that, due to locality and familiarity, spatial investor-firm adjacency plays a key role in determining stock investor attention, as proxied by the location where investors initiate an Internet search of the ticker symbol. This paper investigates whether Chinese...

Using panel data from 30 regions in China during the period 1999:01-2020:12, this paper evaluates the effects of national fundamentals affecting the movement of regional house prices by estimating a factor-augmented VAR model. We construct and examine a hypothesis that national fundamentals...