We study whether prices of traded options contain information about future extreme market events. Our option-implied conditional expectation of market loss due to tail events, or tail loss measure, predicts future market returns, magnitude, and probability of the market crashes, beyond and above...

This paper develops an optimal trading strategy explicitly linked to an agent's preferences and assessment of the distribution of asset returns. The price of this strategy is a portfolio of implied moments, and its expected excess returns naturally accommodate compensation for higher-order...

We analyze the recursive, out-of-sample performance of asset allocation decisions based on financial ratio-predictability under single-state linear and regime-switching models. We adopt both a statistical perspective to analyze whether models based on the dividend-price, earning-price, and...