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This paper provides compelling evidence that equity market liberalization, the most efficient way to smooth financial market frictions such as credit constraints, can alleviate persistent cross-dynastic income inequality through increasing the accumulation of human capital. We examine the impact...
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We investigate empirically how industrialized countries and U.S. states share consumption risk at horizons between one and thirty years. U.S. federal states share about 50 percent of their permanent idiosyncratic risk through cross-state capital income flows. While insurance against transitory...
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We apply the Campbell-Shiller return decomposition to exchange rate returns and fundamentals in a stationary panel vector autoregression framework. The return decomposition is then used to analyse how different investor segments react to news as captured by the different return components. The...
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We compare the stock return forecasting performance of alternative payout yields. The net payout yield produces more accurate forecasts relative to alternatives, including the traditional dividend yield. This remains true even after excluding several years during the Great Depression when...
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Based on risk-value models we introduce a multi-period approach to the valuation of streams of risky cash flows. The valuation is based on the (expected) value of the output's or input's magnitude and the risk of the output cash flow, as captured by a risk measure. We derive three formulae for...
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We measure the ability of professional investment managers in timing cashflow vs. discount-rate news, the two … components of market returns. We find that the average U.S. equity mutual fund exhibits cashflow-timing skills of 2.12/year, but … discount-rate timing of -0.84/year; further, cashflow-timing skills (but not discount-rate timing skills) strongly persist over …
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