An agent optimizes over real investment and investment in information acquisition while maximizing a two-period utility that captures his ordinal certainty equivalent (OCE) preferences. Optimal investment is characterized and the impact of risk and time preferences on it is investigated

The continuous growth of house prices in Spain in recent years has been an issue with economists and market participants. It is still an issue of debate whether the increases are based in fundamentals or whether they essentially constitute a bubble. In this work we study and document the price...

This paper introduces state dependent utility into the standard Mehra and Prescott (1985) economy by allowing the representative agent's coefficient of relative risk aversion to vary with the underlying economy's growth rate. Existence of equilibrium is proved and its asymptotic properties...

Hedging downside risk before substantial price corrections is vital for risk management and long-only active equity manager performance. This study proposes a novel methodology for crafting timing signals to hedge sectors' downside risk. These signals can be integrated into existing strategies...

Over the last four decades, the volatility of the firm level component of stock returns has increased relative to the market and industry components. It has also been documented that during the same period, the U.S. economy has experienced a sharp decline in the volatility of GDP growth. Do...

A call auction is a form of trading that died out in the pre-computer age but has made its reentrance in electronic markets and is currently a significant component of major stock markets globally. In contrast with a continuous market where a transaction is made any time a buy and sell order...

This paper presents a brief historical perspective on the evolution of equity market structure and considers implications microstructure analysis has had for improving market structure. Since the 1975 Securities Acts Amendments mandated the development of a National Market System, the robust...

This paper introduces state dependent utility into the standard Mehra and Prescott (1985) economy by allowing the representative agent's coefficient of relative risk aversion to vary with the underlying economy's growth rate. Existence of equilibrium is proved and its asymptotic properties...

This paper demonstrates that the effects of unanticipated monetary policy changes (shocks) on REIT returns are asymmetric between the high- and low-variance regimes. We utilize a Markov regime-switching model with error correction terms to quantify the impact of monetary shocks on seven...