How the financial authorities can take advantage of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence will both be of considerable help to the financial authorities and bring new challenges. This column argues the authorities...
The Impact of Green Investors on Stock Prices
We study the impact of green investors on stock prices in a dynamic equilibrium model where investors are green, passive or active. Green investors...
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Scale or Yield? A Present-Value Identity
The Review of Financial Studies, 37(3), 950–988
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Personality differences and investment decision-making
Journal of Financial Economics, 153, 103776
Polarized Expectations, Polarized Consumption
This paper argues that political affiliation plays a central role in shaping household expectations and consumption behavior. Using survey and...
Chinese Debt Capital Markets - An Emerging Global Market with Chinese Characteristics
With the deepening of China's reform and opening up, and the sustained development of the Chinese economy, the Chinese bond market has become an...
When risk models hallucinate
Risk model hallucination happens when models are forced to forecast the likelihood of extreme events in cases where they have not been trained with...
Dynamic industry uncertainty networks and the business cycle
Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 159, 104793
Centralized vs Decentralized Markets: The Role of Connectivity
We consider a setting in which privately informed agents are located in a network and trade a risky asset with other agents with whom they are...
Collateral Effects: The Role of FinTech in Small Business Lending
This paper investigates the impact of introducing junior unsecured loans (i.e., FinTech loans) in the small business lending market. Using French...
The Gender Gap in Household Bargaining Power: A Revealed-Preference Approach
When members of the same household have different risk preferences, whose preference matters more for investment decisions and why? We propose an...
How AI can undermine financial stability
As artificial intelligence makes inroads into the financial system, it exacerbates existing channels of instability and creates new ones. This column...
The Market Cost of Business Cycle Fluctuations
We propose a novel approach to measure the costs of aggregate economic fluctuations, that does not require specification of preferences or the data...
Putting the Price in Asset Pricing
We propose a novel way to estimate a portfolio’s abnormal price, the percentage gap between price and the present value of dividends computed with a...
The meandering path of gender reform in Africa
Informality prevails in Africa, especially among women. Eighty-eight per cent of working African women were employed in the informal economy in 2022...