A Growth Strategy for the Greek Economy
The Greek government appointed in January 2020 a Commission chaired by Nobel Prize winner Christopher Pissarides to propose a growth plan. The...
An Unconventional FX Tail Risk Story
We examine how the tail risk of currency returns over the past 20 years were impacted by central bank (monetary and liquidity) measures across the...
Market Power and Insurance Coverage
This paper examines how market power affects coverage in a general class of insurance models. We show that market power decreases coverage for...
Reaching for Yield: Evidence from Households
The existing literature has documented “reaching for yield” - the phenomenon of investing more in risky assets when interest rates drop - among...
Let the Market Speak: Using Interest Rates to Identify the Fed Information Effect
I propose a novel method to identify the exogenous monetary shock from the signaling effect of a Fed announcements in real time. The method relies on...
Cleansing by tight credit: Rational cycles and endogenous lending standards
Journal of Financial Economics, 150(1), 46-67
Stress-testing the banking system: what lies ahead?
Pedro Duarte Neves says stress tests must evolve to capture systemic, liquidity and cyber risks.
Stylised facts on the effectiveness of macroprudential policy
This policy note summarises the main empirical findings on the effectiveness of macroprudential policy: macroprudential policy contributes to a...
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Informational Black Holes in Financial Markets
Journal of Finance, 78 (6), 3099-3140
Asset Allocation and Returns in the Portfolios of the Wealthy
There is little direct empirical evidence on the investment behavior of wealthy households. Based on a proprietary database of investment portfolios...
On the Fragility of DeFi Lending
We develop a dynamic model of DeFi lending that incorporates the following key features: 1) borrowing and lending are decentralized, anonymous...
Granular Corporate Hedging Under Dominant Currency
This paper shows that, in a world dominated by vehicle currencies, firms engaging in international operations retain currency risk and hedge it real...
Feedback Trading and Bubbles
The paper develops a model of bubbles that can be taken to the data and explain the behavior of asset prices and their statistics. We depart from the...
Volatility and dark trading: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic
The British Accounting Review, 55 (4),101171
Timing Complex News to Target Attention
Investors have limited and time-varying attention. These constraints are heterogeneous across investors, which can create asymmetric information and...