We analyze U.S. stock return predictability using a measure of credit standards (Standards) derived from the Federal Reserve Board's Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices. Standards is a strong predictor of stock returns at a business cycle frequency, especially in the...

We study the consumption-portfolio problem of a capital gain taxed investor who has access to multiple risky stocks. Primary to our analysis is to understand how costly short selling influences portfolio choice with a shorting the box restriction. Our analysis uncovers two different strategies...

We study a two-agent pure exchange equilibrium subject to both nondiversifiable diffusive and jump risks. Agents can trade in a financial market consisting of a stock market, a money market, and an insurance market for jump risk. Heterogeneity is introduced through different levels of relative...

We study the consumption-portfolio problem of a capital gain taxed investor who has access to multiple risky stocks. Primary to our analysis is to understand how costly short selling influences portfolio choice with a shorting the box restriction. Our analysis uncovers two different strategies...

We study how differences in beliefs about expected inflation affect the nominal term structure when investors have “catching up with the Joneses” preferences. In the model, “catching up with the Joneses” preferences help to match the level and slope of yields as well as the level of...

We show theoretically that inflation disagreement drives a wedge between real and nominal yields and raises their levels and volatilities. We demonstrate empirically that an inflation disagreement increase of one standard deviation raises real and nominal yields and their volatilities,...

We study the impact of the different tax treatment of capital gains and losses on the optimal location of assets in taxable and tax-deferred accounts. The classical result of Black (1980) and Tepper (1981) suggests that investors should follow a strict pecking-order asset location rule and hold...