During the recent housing recession and financial crisis, mortgage modification has been heavily promoted by government as a way to stabilize the housing and the national banking systems. Numerous programs, such as the Home Owners Preserving Equity (HOPE), Home Affordability Modification Program...

This paper investigates the predictive ability of international volatility risk for the daily aggregate Chinese stock market returns. We employ the innovations in implied volatility indices of seven major international markets as our international volatility risk proxies. We find that...

This paper proposes an aggregate index of macro tail risk and examines its role in asset pricing. We observe that a positive market risk premium compensated for the downside risk of macro fundamentals; a high tail risk predicts subsequent high returns. This predictability exists both in- and...