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decomposes consumption shocks into different frequency of volatility and shows that ignoring short-term dynamics and intra …
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Sponsored search is the mechanism whereby where advertisers pay a fee to Internet search engines to be displayed alongside organic (non-sponsored) web search results. Based on prior literature, we draw an analogy between these markets and financial markets. We use the analogy as well as the key...
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Empirical proxies for permanent shocks to durables consumption growth are shown to generate strong pricing implications for both one-period and long-run risk return tradeoff in a cross-section of test assets. This factor is identified as an additional source of consumption risk in a structural...
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We study the representative consumer's risk attitude and efficient risk-sharing rules in a single-period, single-good economy in which consumers have homogeneous probabilistic beliefs but heterogeneous risk attitudes. We prove that if all consumers have convex absolute risk tolerance, so must...
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This paper examines the unique ability of The Model: a structural credit risk model proposed in Buellesbach (2015), to match the market in ways unmatched by other well-known structural models. The Model demonstrates the capacity to accurately value firms' equity and debt across the entire credit...
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Contracts with embedded prepayment/extension options are subject to behavioral risk, due to the unpredictable exercise strategy followed by the option holder. Empirical data show that, in many situations and for different reasons, investors do not act purely on the strength of financial...
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I show that the habit model of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) does not produce rising volatility during recessions when … it is solved accurately. Instead, volatility is a hump-shaped function of the model's state and recessions are … characterized by falling volatility. Risk premia are substantially less cyclical and returns less predictable than reported in the …
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We study the problem of optimal timing to buy/sell derivatives by a risk-averse agent in incomplete markets. Adopting the exponential utility indifference valuation, we investigate this timing flexibility and the associated delayed purchase premium. This leads to a stochastic control and optimal...
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