Economic activity of firms and asset prices

L Kogan, D Papanikolaou - Annu. Rev. Financ. Econ., 2012 - annualreviews.org
In this review we survey the recent research on the fundamental determinants of stock
returns. These studies explore how firms' systematic risk and their investment and …

Innovation, growth, and asset prices

H Kung, L Schmid - The Journal of Finance, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the asset pricing implications of a production economy whose long‐term
growth prospects are endogenously determined by innovation and R&D. In equilibrium …

Brand capital and firm value

F Belo, X Lin, MA Vitorino - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014 - Elsevier
We study the role of brand capital–a primary form of intangible capital–for firm valuation and
risk in the cross section of publicly traded firms. Using an empirical measure of brand capital …

Macroeconomic linkages between monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates

H Kung - Journal of Financial Economics, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper studies the equilibrium term structure of nominal and real interest rates and the
time-varying bond risk premia implied by a stochastic endogenous growth model with …

Competition, markups, and predictable returns

A Corhay, H Kung, L Schmid - The Review of Financial Studies, 2020 - academic.oup.com
This paper jointly examines the link between competition and expected returns in the time
series and in the cross-section. To this end, we build a general equilibrium model where …

Government debt and the returns to innovation

MM Croce, TT Nguyen, S Raymond… - Journal of Financial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Elevated levels of government debt raise concerns about their effects on long-term growth
prospects. Using the cross-section of US stock returns, we show that (i) high-R&D firms are …

The origins and effects of macroeconomic uncertainty

F Bianchi, H Kung, M Tirskikh - Quantitative Economics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate a production‐based general equilibrium model featuring demand‐and supply‐
side uncertainty and an endogenous term premium. Using term structure and …

A tale of two volatilities: Sectoral uncertainty, growth, and asset prices

G Segal - Journal of Financial Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
What is the impact of higher technological volatility on asset prices and macroeconomic
aggregates? I find the answer hinges on its sectoral origin. Volatility that originates from the …

[PDF][PDF] Embrace or fear uncertainty: Growth options, limited risk sharing, and asset prices

WW Dou - University of Pennsylvania, 2017 - finance-faculty.wharton.upenn.edu
The impact of uncertainty shocks on asset prices and macroeconomic dynamics depends on
the degree of risk sharing in the economy and the origin of uncertainty. We develop a …

BKK the EZ way: International long-run growth news and capital flows

R Colacito, M Croce, S Ho, P Howard - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We study the response of international investment flows to shortand long-run growth news.
Among developed G7 countries, positive long-run news for domestic productivity induces a …