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reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily … increasing access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the …
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We embed a structural model of credit risk inside a dynamic continuous-time consumption-based asset pricing model, which allows us to price equity and corporate debt in a unified framework. Our key economic assumptions are that the first and second moments of earnings and consumption growth...
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The paper reconsiders the role of money and banking in monetary policy analysis by including a banking sector and money in an optimizing model otherwise of a standard type. The model is implemented quantitatively, with a calibration based on US data. It is reasonably successful in providing an...
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Incluye bibliografía ; ¿Puede la desatención de los hogares a la bolsa de valores explicar cuantitativamente la inercia en el rebalanceo de las carteras? Para abordar esta pregunta, este documento introduce un coste de observación en una economía de producción con agentes heterogéneos. En...
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This is a comprehensive study of the growth and impact of agricultural futures market traders. The growth of financial investment in commodities has introduced participants and raised both new questions and warranted revisiting old questions; these include the impact on commodity prices, the...
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No-till (NT) has been shown to reduce fuel, labor, and machinery costs compared to conventional-till (CT) but very few rice producers in Arkansas practice NT. The low adoption rate is most likely due to difficulties in management but also limited information on the profitability and risk of NT....
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Replaced with revised version of paper 02/10/10.
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In this dissertation, I investigate three related topics on asset pricing: the consumption-based asset pricing under long-run risks and fat tails, the pricing of VIX (CBOE Volatility Index) options and the market price of risk embedded in stock returns and stock options. These three topics are...
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The risk premium has risen sharply in the nation's financial markets. This is the message to be drawn from the significant rise in interest rates in recent days -- notwithstanding a stagnant economy, slowing inflation, and credit demands which, overall, are only moderate. The economy is clearly...
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This paper develops a reduced form three-factor model which includes a liquidity proxy of market conditions which is then used to provide implicit prices. The model prices are then compared with observed market prices of credit default swaps to determine if swap rates adequately reflect market...
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