This paper develops a present value framework that reflects expectations of future changes in liquidity and liquidity premia. In our framework, a liquidity premium depends explicitly on prices, dividends, costs, and returns. We find that the liquidity premium for the CRSP market portfolio is...

This paper studies how partial information for insurers can have unique information quality over complete information in a two-state regime-switching market environment. In our models, we consider a partially-informed insurer who learns time variation in expected returns across the two regimes...

This paper investigates the optimal retirement of an individual in the presence of involuntary unemployment risks and borrowing constraints in a complete market with frictions. An intensity model and loading factors are used to illustrate these involuntary unemployment risks and frictions in...

Integrating a Value-at-Risk constraint on a fund manager's wealth and ambiguity, we present a model of optimal portfolio choice for a fund manager who allocates her wealth between risky and riskless assets. When a fund manager controls asset composition, her reactions di er with respect to an...

We develop a new approach for solving the optimal retirement problem for an individual with an unhedgeable income risk. The income risk stems from a forced unemployment event, which occurs as an exponentially-distributed random shock. The optimal retirement problem is to determine the...