This paper investigates the financial risk-taking behavior of pension funds since 2000. I assemble a new database containing portfolio holdings of more than 100 pension funds from 14 advanced economies. The study reveals three key findings. First, I show that pension fund portfolios have become...

This paper estimates pure–exporter premium, which captures the differences between pure exporters and general exporters in various firm characteristics. The data are Thailand’s firm-level data from three rounds of the industrial census in 2007, 2012, and 2017. The analysis finds positive...

This paper provides an estimate of the fair value of the Italian ten-year sovereign spread, defined as a value consistent with the country’s macroeconomic fundamentals. It uses a multi-country model in which the spreads of the government bond yields of Italy, France and Spain with respect to...