Debt and Deficits: Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios
We introduce a measure of a government’s fiscal position that exploits cointegrating relationships among fiscal variables. The measure is a loglinear...
The Drivers and Implications of Retail Margin Trading
Using granular data covering both regulated (brokerage-financed) and unregulated (shadowfinanced) margin accounts in China, we provide novel evidence...
Relative Basis and the Expected Returns of Commodity Futures
We propose a novel measure, dubbed “relative basis,” to better capture the commodity convenience yield. Our measure is the difference between the...
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A Preferred-Habitat Model of Term Premia, Exchange Rates, and Monetary Policy Spillovers
American Economic Review, 115(11), 3788–3824
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Passive Investing and the Rise of Mega-Firms
The Review of Financial Studies, hhaf085
Forecasting Crashes with a Smile
We derive option-implied bounds on the probability of a crash in an individual stock, and argue a priori that the lower bound should be close to the...
Marketwide Memory
We propose a novel measure that allows us to study memory associations in financial markets over the course of several decades. Using our measure, we...
Bond Supply, Yield Drifts, and Liquidity Provision Before Macroeconomic Announcements
UK government bond yields tend to rise in a two-day window before labor market data releases and monetary policy news. This effect, particularly...
Causal Narratives
We study causal narratives – narratives which describe a (potentially incorrect) causal relationship between variables. In a series of experiments...
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Reaching for Yield: Evidence from Households
Journal of Financial Economics, 168, 104057
Arbitrage Networks
This paper studies the general equilibrium implications of arbitrage trades in segmented financial markets. Arbitrageurs choose a category of trades...
Information in Derivatives Markets: Forecasting Prices with Prices
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 17
Inferring Mutual Fund Intra-Quarter Trading - An Application to ESG Window Dressing
We develop a novel method to infer intra-quarter trading of individual mutual funds. After a mutual fund executes a trade, its reported portfolio...