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We study the effects of takeover feasibility on asset prices and returns in a unified framework. We show theoretically that takeover protections increase equity risk, stock returns, and bond yields by removing a valuable put option to sell the firm, notabl ...
Catonsville2024Demand-based Asset Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications
This thesis investigates the relationship between investors' demand shocks and asset pricesthrough the use of data on portfolio holdings. In three chapters, I study the theory, estimation,and application of demand-based asset pricing models, which incorpor ...
EPFL2023International Portfolio Choice with Frictions: Evidence from Mutual Funds
Using data on international equity portfolio allocations by U.S. mutual funds, we estimate a portfolio expression derived from a standard mean-variance portfolio model extended with portfolio frictions. The optimal portfolio depends on the previous month a ...
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC2023Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
This thesis consists of three applications of machine learning techniques to empirical asset pricing.In the first part, which is co-authored work with Oksana Bashchenko, we develop a new method that detects jumps nonparametrically in financial time series ...
EPFL2022Skew-Brownian motion and pricing European exchange options br
This article derives a closed-form pricing formula for European exchange options under a non-Gaussianframework for the underlying assets, intending to resolve mispricing associated with a geometric Brownianmotion. The dynamics of each of the two correlated ...
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2022Non-myopic betas
An overlapping generations model with investors having heterogeneous investment horizons leads to a two-factor asset pricing model. The risk premiums are determined by the exposure to the market (myopic betas) and the future return on the efficient portfol ...
2018Three Essays on Predictability and Seasonality in the Cross-Section of Stock Returns
This thesis examines predictability and seasonality in the cross-section of stock returns. The first chapter, titled ``Infrequent Rebalancing, Return Autocorrelation, and Seasonality,'' shows that a model of infrequent rebalancing can explain specific pred ...
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