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Fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) dominate the U.S. mortgage market, with important consequences for monetary policy, household risk management, and financial stability. We show that the FRM market share is sharply lower when mortgages are difficult to securitiz ...

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Financing Investment: The Choice between Public and Private Debt

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We build a dynamic model of investment and financing decisions to study the choice between bonds and bank loans in a firm's marginal financing decision and its effects on corporate investment. We show that firms with more growth options, higher bargaining ...

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On the Relative Pricing of Long-Maturity Index Options and Collateralized Debt Obligations

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We investigate a structural model of market and firm-level dynamics in order to jointly price long-dated S&P 500 index options and CDO tranches of corporate debt. We identify market dynamics from index option prices and idiosyncratic dynamics from the term ...

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Dynamic CDO Term Structure Modeling

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Doubly Stochastic CDO Term Structures

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Corporate Finance, Asset Returns, and Credit Risk

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This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter empirically investigates how the intensity of product market competition affects the cost of debt. Using a large sample of loans to publicly traded US manufacturing firms, the chapter provides ...

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Pricing and Hedging of CDOs: A Top Down Approach

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This paper considers the pricing and hedging of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs). CDOs are complex derivatives on a pool of credits which we choose to analyse in the top down model proposed in Filipovic et al. (Math. Finance, forthcoming, 2009). We r ...

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Is U.S. Fiscal Policy Optimal?

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We find and compare two simple fiscal rules. The first is a theoretical rule that approximates well Ramsey-optimal fiscal policy in a DSGE model calibrated to the U.S. economy over the period 1955:1 to 2007:3. The second is an empirical rule that approxima ...

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Optimal Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union

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We study optimal fiscal policy in a monetary union where monetary policy is decided by an independent central bank. We consider a two-country model with trade in goods and assets, augmented with sticky prices, labor income taxes and stochastic government c ...

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