We present a simple, linear asset pricing model of the cross section of Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) returns. MBS earn risk premia as compensation for theirexposure to prepayment risk. We measure prepayment risk and estimate security riskloadings using real data on prepayment forecasts vs....

Complex assets appear to have high average returns and high Sharpe ratios. However,despite these attractive attributes, participation in complex assets markets is very limited.We argue that this is because investing in complex assets requires a model, and investors'individual models expose them...

This paper studies the financing role of leasing and secured lending. We argue that the benefit of leasing is that repossession of a leased asset is easier than foreclosure on the collateral of a secured loan, which implies that leasing has higher debt capacity than secured lending. However,...

We present a simple, linear asset pricing model of the cross section of Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) returns in which MBS earn risk premia as compensation for their exposure to prepayment risk. We measure prepayment risk and estimate security risk loadings using real data on prepayment...

The market value of US Single Family Rental assets is $2.3 trillion, yet we believe that we provide the first systematic analysis of total returns to Single Family Rentals over a long time period, in a broad and granular cross section. Analogous to the dividend yields and capital gains that...

We estimate the systemic effects of exit by a key over-the-counter (OTC) intermediary. In our model, risk-averse traders are connected by a core-periphery network. If traders are also averse to concentrated bilateral exposures then the incomplete network prevents full risk sharing. We quantify...

US data display aggregate external financing and savings waves. Firms can allocate costly external finance to productive capital, or to liquid assets with low physical returns. If firms raise costly external finance and accumulate liquidity, either the cost of external finance is relatively low,...

A quantitative examination of the demand for liquid assets arising from consumption smoothingmotives reveals that such demand is very low. Consumers faced with income streams calibrated tomatch income and unemployment data and returns and transactions costs calibrated to match USTreasury Bill...

The widespread and growing use of equity-based compensation has transformed high-skilled labor from a pure labor input to a class of ``human capitalists.''We show that high-skilled labor earns substantial income in the form of equity claims to firms' future dividends and capital...

The market value of US Single Family Rental assets totals more than $2.3 trillion. We believe that we provide the first systematic analysis of total returns to Single Family Rentals over a long time period, in a broad and granular cross section. We find that total nominal returns are...