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Predictability and the Cross-Section of Expected Returns: A Challenge for Asset Pricing Models
(2021-01-22)"Many modern macro finance models imply that excess returns on arbitrary assets are predictable via the price-dividend ratio and the variance risk premium of the aggregate stock market. We propose a simple empirical test ... -
Predictors and Portfolios Over the Life Cycle
(2018-06-08)In a calibrated consumption-portfolio model with stock, housing, and labor income predictability, we evaluate the welfare effects of predictability on life-cycle consumption-portfolio choice. We compare skilled investors ... -
Preference Evolution and the Dynamics of Capital Markets
(2016-05-13)This paper introduces endogenous preference evolution into a Lucas-type economy and explores its consequences for investors' trading strategy and the dynamics of asset prices. In equilibrium, investors herd and hold the ... -
Pricing Sin Stocks: Ethical Preference vs. Risk Aversion
(2018-06-14)We develop a model that reproduces the average return and volatility spread between sin and non-sin stocks. Our investors do not necessarily boycott sin companies. Rather, they are open to invest in any company while trading ... -
Pro-rich Inflation in Europe: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality
(2018-05-17)This paper studies the distributional consequences of a systematic variation in expenditure shares and prices. Using European Union Household Budget Surveys and Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices data, we construct ... -
Professional Networks and their Coevolution with Executive Careers: Evidence from Europe and North America
(2019-02-04)This paper examines how networks of professional contacts contribute to the development of the careers of executives of North American and European companies. We build a dynamic model of career progression in which career ... -
Pushing Through or Slacking Off? Heterogeneity in the Reaction to Rank Feedback
(2018-03-30)This paper studies heterogeneity in the reaction to rank feedback. In a laboratory experiment, individuals take part in a series of dynamic real-effort contests with intermediate feedback. To solve the identification problem ... -
Putting the Pension Back in 401(k) Plans: Optimal versus Default Longevity Income Annuities
(2016-09-29)Most defined contribution pension plans pay benefits as lump sums, yet the US Treasury has recently encouraged firms to protect retirees from outliving their assets by converting a portion of their plan balances into ... -
Quantifying Inertia in Retail Deposit Markets
(2018-03-01)This paper investigates inertia within and across banks in retail deposit markets using detailed panel data on consumer choices and account characteristics. In a structural choice model, I find that costs of inertia are ... -
Quasi-Dark Trading: The Effects of Banning Dark Pools in a World of Many Alternatives
(2019-04-30)We show that “quasi-dark” trading venues, i.e., markets with somewhat non-transparent trading mechanisms, are important parts of modern equity market structure alongside lit markets and dark pools. Using the European MiFID ... -
Recapitalization, Bailout, and Long-run Welfare in a Dynamic Model of Banking
(2021-03-01)This paper studies the dynamic trade-off between the short-run costs and the long-run benefits of bank bailouts. In the model, banks leverage thanks to their cost advantage at monitoring firms, but hold precautionary capital ... -
Regulation of Crowdfunding in Germany
(2018-04-23)This paper is the national report for Germany prepared for the to the 20th General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law 2018 and gives an overview of the regulation of crowdfunding in Germany and the ... -
Regulatory Influence on Market Conditions in the Banking Union
(2015-06-02)This paper looks into the specific influence that the European banking union will have on (future) bank client relationships. It shows that the intended regulatory influence on market conditions in principle serves as a ... -
Remarks on the German Regulation of Crowdfunding
(2017-12-05)Crowdfunding is a buzzword that signifies a sub-set in the new forms of finance facilitated by advances in information technology usually categorized as fintech. Concerns for financial stability, investor and consumer ... -
Rent-Seeking in Elite Networks
(2017-01-31)We employ a unique dataset on members of an elite service club in Germany to investigate how social connections in elite networks affect the allocation of resources. Specifically, we investigate credit allocation decisions ... -
Reputation, Honesty, and Cheating in Informal Milk Markets in India
(2016-01-01)Sellers display astounding differences in their cheating behavior, even in developing countries with weak enforcement of rules. Using the context of informal milk markets in India, we examine the role of reputation and ... -
Resiliency: Cross-Venue Dynamics with Hawkes Processes
(2020-10-16)Market fragmentation and technological advances increasing the speed of trading altered the functioning and stability of global equity limit order markets. Taking market resiliency as an indicator of market quality, we ... -
Resolution Planning and Structural Bank Reform within the Banking Union
(2014-12-18)In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, both resolution planning, i.e. contingency planning by both regulated institutions and public authorities in order to prepare their actions in financial crisis, and concepts ... -
Revisiting the Narrative Approach of Estimating Tax Multipliers
(2015-03-01)"A number of recent studies regress a ""narratively"" identified measure of a macroeconomic shock directly on an outcome variable. In this note, we argue that this approach can be viewed as the reduced-form regression of ... -
Reviving the Shadow Banking Chain in Europe: Regulatory Agency, Technical Complexity and the Dynamics of Co-Habitation
(2018-06-01)In recent years European financial regulation has experienced a tremendous reorientation with respect to the shadow banking system, which manifested first and foremost in its reframing as market-based finance. Initially ...