Regulator Model-Implied Beliefs
Financial regulations rely on regulator-controlled models to generate probabilistic forecasts which determine firm constraints. I refer to these...
Anatomy of the Treasury Market: Who Moves Yields?
Factor regressions provide a model-agnostic way to identify what drives Treasury yields, but not which investors respond. We develop an equilibrium...
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The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows
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Corporate Bond Multipliers: Substitutes Matter
Many economic questions require estimating the price effect of demand shifts (multipliers) in the bond market. Corporate bonds have salient...
Leverage, Engagement, and Welfare in Decentralised Financial Markets
Can financial intermediaries help solve the externalities of the real-economy, even when all investors are purely return-driven? This paper develops a...
The Micro and Macro Dynamics of Capital Flows
We study empirically and theoretically the effects of international financial flows on resource allocation. Using the universe of firms in Hungary, we...
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...