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We show that there exists significant heterogeneity across US households in how uncertain they are in their expectations regarding personal and macroeconomic outcomes, and that uncertainty in expectations predicts households' choices. Individuals with lower income or education, more precarious...
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Even if an asset has no fundamental uncertainty with a constant dividend process, a stochastic sentiment-driven equilibrium for the asset price exists besides the well-known fundamental equilibrium. Our paper constructs such sentiment-driven equilibria under general utility functions within an...
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Using climate change as a prototype motivating example, this paper analyzes the implications of structural uncertainty for the economics of low-probability high-impact catastrophes. The paper shows that having an uncertain multiplicative parameter, which scales or amplifies exogenous shocks and...
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account for the risk premia and asset price fluctuations. In addition, the model can empirically account for the cross …
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decision theory to characterize when learning or discriminating among competing probability models is challenging. I also use … choice theory under uncertainty to explore the ramifications of model uncertainty and learning in environments in which … underpinnings of asset pricing models. I illustrate how statistical ambiguity can alter the risk-return tradeoff familiar from asset …
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We present a theory of choice among lotteries in which the decision maker's attention is drawn to (precisely defined … payoffs, our model provides a novel and unified account of many empirical phenomena, including frequent risk-seeking behavior … distinguish it from Prospect Theory, which we test. We also use the model to modify the standard asset pricing framework, and use …
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exchange rate model, our analysis is based on either the risk-neutral PDF or arbitrage-based tests of target zones. The paper …
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We review the literature on multi-horizon currency risk premiums. We show how the multi-horizon implications arise from … between bond and currency risk premiums. This link is strengthened by explicitly accounting for stochastic discount factors …. Information about currency risk premiums at different horizons presents a wealth of new evidence and challenges for existing …
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distributions of risks give rise to components of equilibrium prices that differ from the risk prices widely used in asset pricing … theory. A quantitative example highlights a representative investor's uncertainties about the size and persistence of …
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MBS earn risk premia as compensation for their exposure to prepayment risk. We measure prepayment risk and estimate … security risk loadings using real data on prepayment forecasts vs. realizations. Estimated loadings are monotonic in securities … investors. In particular, we find convincing evidence that prepayment risk prices change sign over time with the sign of a …
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