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Tailoring Portfolio Choice via Quantile-Targeted Policies

We study the dynamic investment decisions of investors who prioritise specific quantiles of outcomes over their expected values. Downside-focused agents targeting low quantiles reduce risk in states with high variance, while those with a preference for high quantiles concentrate in sleeves with high

Holy Grail Math 7.5 Rigor 8 ·  October 22, 2025

When David becomes Goliath: Repo dealer-driven bond mispricing

This paper studies the impact of funding market frictions on bond prices and market-wide liquidity. Using proprietary transaction-level data on all gilt-backed repo and reverse-repo trades, we demonstrate how the market power of individual dealers and their linkages generate frictions. Specifically,

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  March 11, 2026

Common Firm-level Investor Fears: Evidence from Equity Options

We identify a new type of risk, common firm-level investor fears, from commonalities within the cross-sectional distribution of individual stock options. We define firm-level fears that link with upward price movements as good fears, and those relating to downward price movements as bad fears. Such

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 8 ·  September 7, 2023

Predicting the volatility of major energy commodity prices: the dynamic persistence model

Time variation and persistence are crucial properties of volatility that are often studied separately in energy volatility forecasting models. Here, we propose a novel approach that allows shocks with heterogeneous persistence to vary smoothly over time, and thus model the two together. We argue tha

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  February 2, 2024

The Dynamic Persistence of Economic Shocks

We propose a novel framework for modeling time-varying persistence in economic time series, allowing for smoothly evolving heterogeneity in shock dynamics. We leverage localized regression techniques to flexibly identify changes in persistence over time, offering a data-driven alternative to traditi

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 7.5 ·  June 2, 2023

Skewness Dispersion and Stock Market Returns

Cross-sectional dispersion in firm-level realized skewness is significantly and negatively related to future stock market returns. The predictive power of skewness dispersion is robust to in-sample and out-of-sample estimation and is incremental over a broad set of existing predictors, with only a f

Street Traders Math 3.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  April 9, 2026

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