Capital Markets

Pablo Ottonello

Physical capital, like labour, can be "unemployed" — sitting idle while its owner searches for a buyer or tenant — and this paper documents that in the United States such idle capital is large, …

Wenxin Du · Alexander Tepper · Adrien Verdelhan

Covered interest rate parity, the no-arbitrage cornerstone of currency forward pricing, is shown to be systematically and persistently violated among G10 currencies after the 2008 crisis, in ways that …

John Ammer · Stijn Claessens · Alexandra Tabova · Caleb Wroblewski

When the sovereign yield in an investor's own country falls, that country's private investors hold more U.S. bonds and tilt the mix toward riskier corporate debt rather than Treasuries. Across 31 …

Aimé Bierdel · Andres Drenik · Juan Herreño · Pablo Ottonello

The paper develops a quantitative capital-accumulation model in which capital trades in illiquid markets with asymmetric information — sellers know the quality of their capital but buyers do not. It …

Matteo Maggiori · Brent Neiman · Jesse Schreger

Using a new security-level dataset covering $32 trillion in global investment positions, this paper establishes that the currency a bond is denominated in -- not the nationality of its issuer -- is …