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Julien Hugonnier

Credit market frictions and capital structure dynamics

Semyon Malamud, Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

We study the implications of credit market frictions for the dynamics of corporate capital structure and the risk of default of corporations. To do so, we develop a dynamic capital structure model in which firms face uncertainty regarding their ability to ...

2015

Capital Supply Uncertainty, Cash Holdings, and Investment

Semyon Malamud, Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

We develop a model of investment, financing, and cash management decisions in which investment is lumpy and firms face uncertainty regarding their ability to raise funds in the capital markets. We characterize optimal policies explicitly and show that the ...

2013

Health and (Other) Asset Holdings

Julien Hugonnier, Pascal St-Amour, Florian Pelgrin

Despite clear evidence of correlations between financial and medical statuses and decisions, most models treat financial and health-related choices separately. This article bridges this gap by proposing a tractable dynamic framework for the joint determina ...

Oxford Univ Press2013

Real options and risk aversion

Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

In the standard real options approach to investment under uncertainty, agents formulate optimal policies under the assumptions of risk neutrality or complete financial markets. Although these assumptions are crucial to the implications of the approach, the ...

2012

Credit Market Frictions and Capital Structure Dynamics

Semyon Malamud, Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

2012

Rational asset pricing bubbles and portfolio constraints

Julien Hugonnier

This article shows that portfolio constraints can give rise to rational asset pricing bubbles in equilibrium even if there are unconstrained agents in the economy who can benefit from the induced limited arbitrage opportunities. Furthermore, it is shown th ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2012

Incomplete information, idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns

Julien Hugonnier, Tony Berrada

When investors have incomplete information, expected returns, as measured by an econometrician, deviate from those predicted by standard asset pricing models by including a term that is the product of the stock's idiosyncratic volatility and the investors' ...

2012

Mutual fund competition in the presence of dynamic flows

Julien Hugonnier

This paper analyzes competition between mutual funds in a multiple funds version of the model of Hugonnier and Kaniel (2010). We characterize the set of equilibria for this portfolio management game and show that there exists a unique Pareto optimal equili ...

2010

Mutual fund portfolio choice in the presence of dynamic ﬂows

Julien Hugonnier

We analyze the implications of dynamic flows on a mutual fund's portfolio decisions. In our model, myopic investors dynamically allocate capital between a riskless asset and an actively managed fund which charges fraction-of-fund fees. The presence of dyna ...

2010

Corporate control and real investment in incomplete markets

Erwan Morellec, Julien Hugonnier

In the standard real options approach to investment under uncertainty, agents formulate optimal policies under the assumptions of risk neutrality or perfect capital markets. However, in most situations, corporate executives face incomplete markets either b ...

2007