News Shocks and Asset Prices
We study the importance of anticipated shocks (news) for understanding the comovement between macroeconomic quantities and asset prices. We find that...
When Arm’s Length Is Too Far. Relationship Banking over the Credit Cycle
Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks’ lending techniques affect credit constraints of small and medium...
Dynamic Equilibrium with Rare Events and Heterogeneous Epstein-Zin Investors
We consider a general equilibrium Lucas (1978) economy with one consumption good and two heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors. The output is subject to...
Wolf Pack Activism
It is alleged that activist hedge funds congregate around a common target, with one acting as the "lead" activist and others as peripheral activists...
A Tug of War: Overnight Versus Intraday Expected Returns
We decompose the abnormal profits associated with well-known patterns in the cross-section of expected returns into their overnight and intraday...
The Dynamics of Financially Constrained Arbitrage
We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital, liquidity, and asset prices...
The Dynamics of Financially Constrained Arbitrage
We develop a model of financially constrained arbitrage, and use it to study the dynamics of arbitrage capital, liquidity, and asset prices...
Global Capital Markets, Housing Prices, and Partisan Fiscal Policies
In recent years, global imbalances have channeled the excess savings of surplus countries toward the real estate markets of deficit countries. By...
Information Asymmetries, Volatility, Liquidity and the Tobin Tax
Information asymmetries and trading costs, in a financial market model with dynamic information, generate a self-exciting equilibrium price process...
Brave New World? Macro Prudential Policy and the new Political Economy of The Federal Reserve
The Financial Crisis that started in 2007 ushered in new responsibilities for central banks, particularly for what is termed “macro-prudential policy...
Great Expectations, Veto Players, and the Changing Politics of Banking Crises
How have the politics of banking crises changed over the long run? Unlike existing static accounts, we offer a dynamic theory emphasizing how the...
The Federal Reserve as Global Lender of Last Resort, 2007-2010
Passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, in conjunction with a Supreme Court ruling supporting a Freedom of Information Act request, required...
Credit Risk Spillovers, Systemic Importance and Vulnerability in Financial Networks
How does the change in the creditworthiness of a financial institution or sovereign impact its creditors’ solvency? I address this question in the...
The Booms and Busts of Beta Arbitrage
Historically, low-beta stocks deliver high average returns and low risk relative to high-beta stocks, offering a potentially profitable investment...
International Correlation Risk
We document that cross-sectional FX correlation disparity is countercyclical, as exchange rate pairs with high average correlation become more...
Playing Favorites: How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News
We explore a subtle but important mechanism through which firms manipulate their information environments. We show that firms control information flow...
