Asset-Pricing

Pedro Bordalo · Nicola Gennaioli · Giacomo Lanzani · Andrei Shleifer

Bordalo, Gennaioli, Lanzani, and Shleifer develop a cognitive theory of choice in which a decision maker’s attention to the features of options is determined by her categorization of the current …

DOMINIK BODDIN · DANIEL MARCEL TE KAAT · CHANG MA · ALESSANDRO REBUCCI

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper identifies and quantifies a housing portfolio channel of quantitative easing (QE) transmission that operates through household portfolio rebalancing …

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas · Walker Ray · Dimitri Vayanos

Layer 1 — Core Argument The paper develops a two-country preferred-habitat model in which currency and bond markets are populated by different investor clienteles — currency traders with price-elastic …

Jess Benhabib · Feng Dong · Pengfei Wang · Zhenyang Xu

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question. Why do corporate defaults cluster in recurring episodes rather than occurring smoothly? The paper asks whether observable fundamental factors — firm …

Stephan Lauermann · Asher Wolinsky

This paper develops an auction model that jointly incorporates three frictions pervading informal price-formation processes: (1) costly recruitment by the seller, (2) costly participation by bidders, …

Michael Ehrmann · Phillipp Gnan · Kilian Rieder

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper investigates the economics of monetary policy leaks — anonymous disclosures of confidential information by insiders to the media — focusing on three …

Alexander M Jakobsen

This paper introduces and axiomatically characterizes Coarse Bayesian updating, a generalization of Bayes’ rule designed to accommodate the wide empirical evidence that individuals …

Andreas Haupt · Zoë Hitzig

Haupt and Hitzig introduce a framework for comparing the privacy properties of different mechanism protocols. The core research question is: when a designer commits to implementing a social choice …

Jonathan Payne · Bálint Szőke · George Hall · Thomas J Sargent

Overview This paper constructs a new dataset of US federal bond prices and uses it to estimate the full term structure of yields on gold-denominated US federal debt from 1791 to 1933 — the entire gold …

Giacomo Lanzani

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper asks how an agent who fears that none of their probabilistic models is the correct description of the data-generating process (DGP) should update that …

Ming Zeng · Guihai Zhao

Overview Research Question. What drives the joint historical dynamics of the term structure of equity yields and nominal bond yields — and can a single unified equilibrium model explain the …

Sergio Villalvazo

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper studies the cross-sectional dimension of Fisher’s (1933) debt-deflation mechanism as it operates during Sudden Stop crises — episodes …

Matthew Baron · Luc Laeven · Julien Pénasse · Yevhenii Usenko

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper investigates two interrelated questions about historical banking crises: (1) whether bank losses during banking crises are primarily temporary or …

Amir Kermani · Francis Wong

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper estimates the racial/ethnic gap in realized housing returns using administrative data on individual housing transactions, and investigates the …

Giulia Brancaccio · Karam Kang

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question This paper investigates whether intermediaries in the U.S. municipal bond market strategically exploit product design to increase search frictions and, through …

Francesco Saverio Gaudio

This paper documents a puzzle for canonical limited-participation models: when U.S. stock market participation rose from 31.6% to 53% between 1989 and 2007—a period also characterized by the Great …

Ronan C Lyons · Allison Shertzer · Rowena Gray · David Agorastos

Lyons, Shertzer, Gray, and Agorastos construct the first consistent, annual, quality-adjusted market rent and home sales price series for American cities spanning 1890–2006. The paper addresses a …

Karlye Dilts Stedman · Andrew Hanson

Layer 1 — Overview Research Question The paper asks why unconventional monetary policy (UMP) spillovers from the European Central Bank (ECB) to the U.S. Treasury yield curve vary so substantially over …

Greg Buchak · Gregor Matvos · Tomasz Piskorski · Amit Seru

This paper examines frictions in dealer intermediation in durable consumer goods markets, using iBuyers — technology-driven real estate companies such as Opendoor and Offerpad — as a lens. The central …