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The Aligned Economic Index & The State Switching Model

A growing empirical literature suggests that equity-premium predictability is state dependent, with much of the forecasting power concentrated around recessionary periods (Henkel et al., 2011; Dangl and Halling, 2012; Devpura et al., 2018). I study U.S. stock return predictability across economic re

Holy Grail Math 7 Rigor 7.5 ·  December 23, 2025

Switching between states and the COVID-19 turbulence

In Aarab (2020), I examine U.S. stock return predictability across economic regimes and document evidence of time-varying expected returns across market states in the long run. The analysis introduces a state-switching specification in which the market state is proxied by the slope of the yield curv

Holy Grail Math 6 Rigor 7.5 ·  December 23, 2025

Integrating granular data into a multilayer network: an interbank model of the euro area for systemic risk assessment

Micro-structural models of contagion and systemic risk emphasize that shock propagation is inherently multi-channel, spanning counterparty exposures, short-term funding and roll-over risk, securities cross-holdings, and common-asset (fire-sale) spillovers. Empirical implementations, however, often r

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  February 11, 2026

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