Price discovery with a richer market microstructure noise
We show that the standard econometric framework typically yields inconsistent estimates of price discovery measures in the presence of richer market...
Time-varying price discovery
We formulate a price discovery model in which the price discovery measures vary either locally, say, for instance, at intervals of 30 minutes or at a...
Memory and Trading
I test the predictions of human memory models in a high-stakes trading environment. Using alphabetical rankings of stocks from portfolio statements, I...
The Co-Pricing Factor Zoo
We analyze 18 quadrillion models for the joint pricing of corporate bond and stock returns. Strikingly, we find that equity and nontradable factors...
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...
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Investor Memory and Biased Beliefs: Evidence from the Field
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140 (4), 2749–2804
The Distribution of Investor Beliefs, Stock Ownership, and Stock Returns
Management Science, 72(2), 1595-1615
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...