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Affine term structure models have been used to address a wide range of questions in macroeconomics and finance. This paper investigates a number of their testable implications which have not previously been explored. We show that the assumption that certain specified yields are priced without...
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Here, I present and discuss a "10-by-10-by-10" network-based approach to monitoring systemic financial risk. Under this … of cash flow, allowing regulators to assess risk magnitudes in terms of stresses to both economic values and also …
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This paper studies Pareto-optimal risk-sharing arrangements in a private information economy with aggregate uncertainty …
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in credit markets and the buildup of risk ex ante. During a systemic crisis, bailouts relax balance sheet constraints and … mitigate the severity of the recession. Ex ante, the anticipation of such bailouts leads to an increase in risk-taking, making …
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This paper develops and estimates a continuous-time model of a financial market where investors' trading strategies and the specialist's rule of price adjustments are the best response to each other. We examine how far modeling market microstructure in a purely rational framework can go in...
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CAPM can understate the risk of illiquid assets because these assets become riskier when investors are the most risk averse … times, assets' liquidity premia increase, investors become more risk averse, assets become more negatively correlated with …
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This paper provides a survey of business cycle facts, updated to take account of recent data. Emphasis is given to the Great Recession which was unlike most other post-war recessions in the US in being driven by deleveraging and financial market factors. We document how recessions with financial...
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Cuncertainty%u201D) and changes in risk aversion (%u201Crisk%u201D for short) in the determination of the term structure, equity … prices and risk premiums. Theoretically, we introduce persistent time-varying uncertainty about the fundamentals in an … and many salient asset market phenomena. While the variation in dividend yields and the equity risk premium is primarily …
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We study the role of information in asset pricing models with long-run cash flow risk. When investors can distinguish … short- from long-run consumption risks (full information), the model generates a sizable equity risk premium only if the … propose a sparsity-based bounded rationality model of long-run risk that is both parsimonious and fully identified from …
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, and near-frictionless refinancing opportunities---led to vastly increased systemic risk in the financial system …
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