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Survey respondents strongly disagree about return risks and, increasingly, macroeconomic uncertainty. This may have …, raising prices. More complex collateralised contracts, like CDOs, can increase prices further. In contrast, with disagreement …
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uncertainty with the dispersion of point-estimates among individual forecasters (a measure of disagreement). We also assess the … range of specific outcomes, allowing us to measure uncertainty, assess its driving forces, and compare this measure of …
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The paper analyzes foreign investment and asset prices in a context of uncertainty over future government policy. The … component. We show that both the time series and the term structure of conditional volatility in general is downward sloping and … reputation. Another testable implication is that in price series without a policy reversal, implied volatility from option prices …
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uncertain and subject to learning. We discuss phenomena related to the volatility and predictability of asset returns, stock …
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A quantitative investigation of financial intermediation in the U.S. over the past 130 years yields the following results : (i) the finance industry’s share of GDP is high in the 1920s, low in the 1950s and 1960s, and high again in the 1990s and 2000s; (ii) most of these variations can be...
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We present a novel source of disagreement grounded in decision theory: ambiguity aversion. We show that ambiguity … aversion generates endogenous disagreement between a firm's insider and outside shareholders, creating a new rationale for …
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(economic) transparency, and given our findings that disagreement among inflation expectations in the general public is not …
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We use prices of equity index options to quantify the impact of extreme events on asset returns. We define extreme events as departures from normality of the log of the pricing kernel and summarize their impact with high-order cumulants: skewness, kurtosis, and so on. We show that high-order...
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We quantify the sources of risk in currency returns as a first step toward understanding the returns reported for the carry trade. To do this, we develop and estimate an empirical model of exchange rate dynamics using daily data for four currencies relative to the US dollar: the Australian...
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We model the demand-pressure effect on prices when options cannot be perfectly hedged. The model shows that demand pressure in one option contract increases its price by an amount proportional to the variance of the unhedgeable part of the option. Similarly, the demand pressure increases the...
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