Does living in a communist regime make a person more concerned about immigration? This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that people’s attitudes toward immigration are affected by their country's politico-economic legacy. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment arising from...

We propose a methodology that can efficiently measure the Value-at-Risk (VaR) of large portfolios with time-varying volatilities and correlations by bringing together the established historical simulation framework and recent contributions to the Dynamic Factor Models literature. We find that...

I empirically investigate whether macroeconomic uncertainty is a priced risk factor in the cross-section of equity and index option returns. The analysis employs a non-linear factor model, estimated with the Fama-MacBeth methodology, where the macroeconomic uncertainty factor is the return on a...