Filtered consumption growths, constructed from a broad set of macro variables, improve cross-sectional asset pricing on portfolios formed on size, book-to-market equity, and past performance compared to observed consumption growth. I use two methods to construct measures of filtered consumption...

The optimized portfolio that is calculated by a covariance matrix has large sensitivities to small eigen values of the covariance matrix. Estimation of sampling errors for small eigen values is quite important for fund managers who construct their portfolios from estimated covariance matrixes....

Existence of premiums for factors is known to quantitative equity fund managers. They use factors to get premium of them when they construct (factor tilted) portfolio from a lot of stocks.They try to use many factors in order to get the premiums effectively by calculating covariance of each...

We use recently collected retrospective survey data to estimate the displacement effect of pension wealth on household savings. The third wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, SHARELIFE, collects information on the entire job history of the respondent, a feature missing...

The value of option grants to CEOs is defined in two different ways. Fair values are grant-date estimates of expected values from future option contract settlement. Payouts from exercise are realized values from option contract settlement. We refer to the cumulative difference between the fair...

Explaining exchange rates has long been an important but vexing issue in international economics and finance. In recent years, a number of studies have shown that investors' private information plays a central role in determining exchange rates. We demonstrate in this paper that the private...