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...
Trading ahead of barbarians’ arrival at the gate: insider trading on noninside information
Review of Finance, 30 (3), 921–948
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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, 38(12), 3461–3496
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...
Why are there financial crises? Recent developments in theory
Annual Review of Financial Economics, 17, 77 - 92
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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...