Network Risk and key Players: A Structural Analysis of Interbank Liquidity
We model banks’ liquidity holding decision as a simultaneous game on an interbank borrowing network. We show that at the Nash equilibrium, the...
DP 734
What is the Consumption-CAPM missing? An Information-Theoretic Framework for the Analysis of Asset Pricing Models
We study a broad class of asset pricing models in which the stochastic discount factor (SDF) can be factorized into an observable component and a...
DP 691
Can rare events explain the equity premium puzzle?
Probably not. First, allowing the probabilities attached to the states of the economy to differ from their sample frequencies, the Consumption-CAPM is...
DP 610
Money Illusion and Housing Frenzies
A reduction in inflation can fuel run-ups in housing prices if people suffer from money illusion. For example, investors who decide whether to rent or...
DP 579