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Machine Learning Sentiment Analysis, Covid-19 News and Stock Market Reactions
(2020-09-15)The possibility to investigate the impact of news on stock prices has observed a strong evolution thanks to the recent use of natural language processing (NLP) in finance and economics. In this paper, we investigate COVID-19 ... -
Macroprudential Policy in the Lab
(2018-12-20)Higher capital ratios are believed to improve system-wide financial stability through three main channels: (i) higher loss-absorption capacity, (ii) lower moral hazard, (iii) stabilization of the financial cycle if capital ... -
Managing Excess Volatility: Design and Effectiveness of Circuit Breakers
(2017-02-02)We investigate different designs of circuit breakers implemented on European trading venues and examine their effectiveness to manage excess volatility and to preserve liquidity. Specifically, we empirically analyze ... -
Market impact of government communication: The case of presidential tweets
(2021-10-06)"We propose the ""President reacts to news"" channel of stock returns by studying the financial market impact of the Twitter account of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump. We use machine learning algorithms ... -
Measuring Ambiguity Aversion: A Systematic Experimental Approach
(2014-06-20)This paper provides a systematic analysis of individual attitudes towards ambiguity, based on laboratory experiments. The design of the analysis allows to capture individual behavior across various levels of ambiguity, ... -
Measuring Sovereign Contagion in Europe
(2015-04-01)This paper analyzes sovereign risk shift-contagion, i.e. positive and significant changes in the propagation mechanisms, using bond yield spreads for the major eurozone countries. By emphasizing the use of two econometric ... -
Mental Accounting in a Business Cycle Model
(2018-12-17)Motivated by the consumer behavior literature, this paper presents a new business cycle model in which consumers incur a pain of paying and neglect the opportunity costs of consumption. Although consumers maximize their ... -
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Machine Predictions and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
(2021-04-20)We show that disclosing machine predictions to affected parties can trigger self-fulfilling prophecies. In an investment game, we experimentally vary investors’ and recipients’ access to a machine prediction about recipients’ ... -
Momentum-managed equity factors
(2019-07-22)Managed portfolios that exploit positive first-order autocorrelation in monthly excess returns of equity factor portfolios produce large alphas and gains in Sharpe ratios. We document this finding for factor portfolios ... -
Monetary Policy and Risk Taking
(2016-05-19)We assess the effects of monetary policy on bank risk to verify the existence of a risk-taking channel — monetary expansions inducing banks to assume more risk. We first present VAR evidence confirming that this channel ... -
Monetary Policy and the Cost of Wage Rigidity: Evidence from the Stock Market
(2018-01-01)Using a unique confidential contract level dataset merged with firm-level asset price data, we find robust evidence that firms' stock market valuations and employment levels respond more to monetary policy announcements ... -
Monetary Policy Implementation in an Interbank Network: Effects on Systemic Risk
(2014-03-26)This paper makes a conceptual contribution to the effect of monetary policy on financial stability. We develop a microfounded network model with endogenous network formation to analyze the impact of central banks' monetary ... -
Mortgage Supply and the US Housing Boom: The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act
(2019-10-30)This paper studies the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the US housing boom-bust cycle. I find that the enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated ... -
Mortgage Supply and the US Housing Boom: The Role of the Community Reinvestment Act
(2016-10-30)This paper studies the role of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) in the US housing boom-bust cycle. I find that the enhancement in CRA enforcement in 1998 increased the growth rate of mortgage lending by CRA-regulated ... -
Motivated Beliefs and the Elderly's Compliance with COVID-19 Measures
(2021-01-26)Although the elderly are more vulnerable to COVID-19, the empirical evidence suggests that they do not behave more cautiously in the pandemic than younger individuals. This theoretical model argues that some individuals ... -
Much Ado About Nothing: A Study of Differential Pricing and Liquidity of Short and Long Term Bonds
(2018-11-01)Are yields of long-maturity bonds distorted by demand pressure of clientele investors, regulatory effects, or default, flight-to-safety or liquidity premiums? Using data on German nominal bonds between 2005 and 2015, we ... -
Multiplex interbank networks and systemic importance: An application to European data
(2015-05-01)Research on interbank networks and systemic importance is starting to recognise that the web of exposures linking banks balance sheets is more complex than the single-layer-of-exposure approach. We use data on exposures ... -
Mutual Excitation in Eurozone Sovereign CDS
(2014-05-01)We study self- and cross-excitation of shocks in the Eurozone sovereign CDS market. We adopt a multivariate setting with credit default intensities driven by mutually exciting jump processes, to capture the salient features ... -
Natural Disaster and Bank Stability: Evidence from the U.S. Financial System
(2018-04-01)We show that property damages from weather-related natural disasters significantly weaken the stability of banks with business activities in affected regions, as reflected in lower z-scores, higher probabilities of default, ... -
Networks in Risk Spillovers: A Multivariate GARCH Perspective
(2018-08-01)We propose a spatiotemporal approach for modeling risk spillovers using time-varying proximity matrices based on observable financial networks and introduce a new bilateral specification. We study covariance stationarity ...