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This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...
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We document the predictive ability and economic significance of global economic policy uncertainty for U.S. equity returns. After orthogonalizing global economic policy uncertainty (global EPU) with respect to the U.S. EPU, we find that it has significant predictive power for aggregate stock...
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Utilizing a large sample of actively managed equity funds and a recently developed EPU index for New Zealand, we show that fund flow performance sensitivity decreases with policy uncertainty. The role of policy uncertainty as a determinant of fund flow performance sensitivity is found to be...
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This study introduces a monthly news-based economic policy uncertainty index for New Zealand (NZ EPU) and examines the pricing implications of our newly constructed NZ EPU on a large sample of institutional investors. We find that NZ EPU is a priced and an undiversifiable risk factor that...
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Contrary to the theoretical principle that higher risk is compensated with higher expected return, the literature shows that low-risk stocks outperform high-risk stocks. Using a large-scale household dataset, we provide an explanation for this puzzling result that the anomalous negative...
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We investigate the role of economic uncertainty in the cross-sectional pricing of individual stocks and equity portfolios. We estimate stock exposure to an economic uncertainty index and show that stocks in the lowest uncertainty beta decile generate 6% more annualized risk-adjusted return...
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We quantify disagreement about the economy with ex-ante measures of divergence of opinion among economic forecasters and investigate if economic disagreement has a significant impact on the cross-sectional pricing of individual stocks. We find a significant disagreement premium of 7.2% per...
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Our study evaluates the return sensitivity of cryptocurrencies to various measures of uncertainty (uncertainty beta). We identify that crypto returns react primarily to financial uncertainty, which is the unforecastable component of multiple financial indicators. However, crypto returns are not...
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The core of risk aggregation in the Solvency II Standard Formula is the so-called square root formula. We argue that it … should be seen as a means for the aggregation of different risks to an overall risk rather than being associated with … immediately find that it defines a norm and therefore provides a homogeneous and sub-additive tool for risk aggregation. Hence …
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