This paper starts by unveiling a strong empirical regularity: multinational corporations exhibit higher stock market returns and earning yields than non-multinational firms. Within non-multinationals, exporters exhibit higher earning yields and returns than firms selling only in their domestic...

A large body of empirical work documents that prices of traded goods change by a smaller proportion than real exchange rates between the trading countries (incomplete pass-through). The wedge between exchange rates and relative prices also varies a cross countries (pricing-to-market). I present...

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the relationship between the geographic structure of a multinational corporation and its stock market returns. We use a structural model to identify two main channels through which the fact of being a multinational firm affects returns. On...

Are housing returns predictable? If so, do households take them into account when making their housing consumption and portfolio decisions? We document the existence of housing return predictability in the U.S. at the aggregate, census region, and state level. We study a portfolio choice model...

I use a non-separable utility function with non-housing consumption and consumption of housing services, which generates an intertemporal composition risk, besides the traditional consumption growth risk. The composition risk has effects for the valuation of cash flow growth fluctuations far...