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Without sacrificing tractability, we analyze the effect of fat-tailed events such as catastrophes on the optimal compensation contract between a principal and an agent. The optimal contract depends on all the moments and not just the variance
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Due to tougher lending standards, Rent-to-Own (RTO) contracts are getting popular. In a RTO contract, a tenant signs a lease with the option to buy a house at a predetermined purchase price. That is, the tenant receives a call option. RTO contracts allow potential financially constrained...
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Evidence shows that firms market time their debt maturity. Specifically, maturity is found to be inversely proportional to the term spread (the difference between long and short-term Treasury yield). That is, firms issue short-term debt when the term spread is large and they increase maturity as...
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We present a durable consumption-based asset pricing model with Epstein-Zin preferences and the pricing kernel accommodating the long-run consumption risk. Consumption growth includes a small predictable component as in Bansal and Yaron (2004). The model is estimated with simple econometric...
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