It is common to estimate equity betas for private firms or non-traded assets through a comparable company analysis, we test if the Random Forest algorithm can provide superior forecasts. In out-of-sample tests from 1992 to 2018, we find that Random Forest forecasts produce substantially lower...

We consider an extension of the Hull-White short rate model which incorporates smile and skew, effectively through a quadratic dependence of the diffusion on the short rate. We derive an asymptotic representation of the pricing kernel for this new model in semi-analytic form, using this to...

This paper investigates asset trade in a general-equilibrium complete-markets endowment economy with heterogeneous agents. It shows that standard no-trade results cease to hold when agents have heterogeneous beliefs and that substantial trade volume is generated, even in the presence of a...

The purpose of the paper is to introduce, in a discrete-time no-arbitrage pricing context, a bridge between the historical and the risk-neutral state vector dynamics which is wider than the one implied by a classical exponential-affine stochastic discount factor (SDF) and to preserve, at the...