Households experience less earnings risk than primary earners alone, because of intra-household insurance along the intensive and extensive margins.
Author: sethpruittnet
Characteristics are Covariances: A Unified Model of Risk and Return (WP) w/ Kelly and Su
Stock characteristics are connected to expected returns because they tell us about risk exposure.
Instrumented Principal Component Analysis (WP) w/ Kelly and Su
Factor estimation using instrumental data to capture both cross-sectional and time-series variation in factor loadings [SSRN]
Estimating Monetary Policy Rules When Nominal Interest Rates Are Stuck at Zero (JMCB 2017) w/ Kim
With the onset of the ZLB, we find a decrease in the perceived monetary policy response to inflation, using surveys of professional forecasts to sidestep data censorship. [SSRN]
Macroeconomic News in the Cross Section of Asset Growth (WP) w/ Hou, Hugon, and Lyle
Firms' investment decisions contain new information about future aggregate productivity shocks. [SSRN]
The Liquidity Effects of Official Bond Market Intervention (JFQA 2018) w/ DePooter and Martin
We find significant liquidity effects to ECB sovereign bond purchases, using a search-based asset pricing model to understand the mechanism. [SSRN]
Systemic Risk and the Macroeconomy: An Empirical Evaluation (JFE 2016) w/ Giglio and Kelly
We evaluate a wide array of systemic risk indicators and their ability to forecast the quantiles of real activity, and propose methods for combining them that show there is a latent systemic risk factor that is robustly related to future macroeconomic downside risk. [publication] [SSRN]
