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Curriculum Vitae
Academic Appointments
University of Bern, Associate Professor
CEPR, Research Affiliate
Research Interests
Equilibrium Asset Pricing, Information Economics
Publications
Information Percolation, Momentum, and Reversal,
Journal of Financial Economics,
2017 [Slides]
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Word-of-mouth communication accelerates the information flow through prices and generates momentum in asset returns. Word-of-mouth communication can propagate a rumor, which generates price run-ups and reversals.
Why Does Return Predictability Concentrate in Bad Times?,
Journal of Finance,
2017 [Slides]
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Countercyclical investors' disagreement causes stock return predictability to concentrate in bad times; a time-series momentum strategy crashes after sharp market rebounds.
Idea Sharing and the Performance of Mutual Funds,
Journal of Financial Economics,
forthcoming [Slides]
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Idea sharing causes the statistical significance of performance, the separation of skill from luck and performance persistence to concentrate in the worst-performing funds.
Working Papers
The Low-Minus-High Portfolio and the Factor Zoo,
November 2019[Slides]
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A single long-short portfolio will always explain, together with the market, 100% of
cross-sectional variation in returns. The empiricist may uncover an infinity of proxies for this portfolio, thus unleashing the factor zoo.
The Lost Capital Asset Pricing Model,
R & R at the Review of Economic Studies,
August 2018 [Slides]
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In a rational-expectations economy in which markets are not informationally efficient, the CAPM holds but is rejected empirically―a classic Type I error.
Knowledge Cycles and Corporate Investment,
July 2019[Slides]
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The trade-off between experimenting with a technology and exploring new technologies creates endogenous knowledge cycles, at early stages of which investment is abnormally low.
Asymmetric Information and Inventory Concerns in Over-the-Counter Markets,
December 2013[Slides]
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Transparency increases inventory costs and reduces the incentives to provide liquidity on an OTC market.
Global Public Signals, Heterogenous Beliefs and Stock
Markets Co-movement,
February 2010 [download pdf]
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A misinterpretation of a global public signal generates significant co-movement in stock returns in international stock markets.
Dumas & Maenhout (2003) Central-Planning Approach: A Comment,
April 2008[download pdf]
A note that I wrote on the Dumas & Maenhout (2003) Central Planning Approach in Incomplete Markets.