Jessica A. Wachter

University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

Professor of Finance

The Wharton School

3620 Locust Walk

Philadelphia, PA 19104

United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

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Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 03 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Harvard Business School, University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and NYU Stern School of Business
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Mutual fund, performance evaluation

Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements

NYU Working Paper No. SC-AM-05-02
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Harvard Business School, University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and NYU Stern School of Business
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Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from the Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements

NBER Working Paper No. w10685
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Sep 2004 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2022
Harvard Business School, University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and NYU Stern School of Business
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Can Mutual Fund Managers Pick Stocks? Evidence from Their Trades Prior to Earnings Announcements

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-04-015
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Harvard Business School, University of Oklahoma - Michael F. Price College of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and NYU Stern School of Business
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A Model of Two Days: Discrete News and Asset Prices

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 30 Sep 2017 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2021
Jessica A. Wachter and Yicheng Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 1,421 (23,443)
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rare disasters, regime shifts, learning

The Macroeconomic Announcement Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w24432
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Yicheng Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions

10th Miami Behavioral Finance Conference
Number of pages: 97 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Michael J. Kahana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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Memory, Context, Under-reaction, Financial Disasters

A Retrieved-Context Theory of Financial Decisions

NBER Working Paper No. w26200
Number of pages: 100 Posted: 03 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Michael J. Kahana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary Over the Business Cycle?

AFA 2004 San Diego Meetings
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Nov 2003
Anthony W. Lynch, Jessica A. Wachter and Walter Boudry
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 892 (45,867)
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Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary Over the Business Cycle?

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-03-01
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Anthony W. Lynch, Jessica A. Wachter and Walter Boudry
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary Over the Business Cycle?

NYU Working Paper No. S-DRP-03-04
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Walter Boudry, Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary Over the Business Cycle?

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-03-005
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Anthony W. Lynch, Jessica A. Wachter and Walter Boudry
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Does Mutual Fund Performance Vary Over the Business Cycle?

NYU Working Paper No. SC-AM-03-03
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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'Superstitious' Investors

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 04 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 07 Sep 2021
Hongye Guo and Jessica A. Wachter
The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 1,123 (33,658)

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Excess volatility, Extrapolative expectations, Rare events, Overconfidence

The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings; 14th Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 12 Aug 2004
Martin Lettau, Jessica A. Wachter and Sydney C. Ludvigson
University of California - Haas School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

NBER Working Paper No. w10270
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 25 May 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2022
Martin Lettau, Jessica A. Wachter and Sydney C. Ludvigson
University of California - Haas School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-04-08
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Martin Lettau, Sydney C. Ludvigson and Jessica A. Wachter
University of California - Haas School of Business, New York University - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5519
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 09 Jun 2006
Martin Lettau, Jessica A. Wachter and Sydney C. Ludvigson
University of California - Haas School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and New York University - Department of Economics
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Equity premium, macroeconomic volatility, stock market boom, regime shifts

The Declining Equity Premium: What Role Does Macroeconomic Risk Play?

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 1653-1687, 2008
Posted: 08 Aug 2008
Martin Lettau, Sydney C. Ludvigson and Jessica A. Wachter
University of California - Haas School of Business, New York University - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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Is The United States A Lucky Survivor: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 10 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2023
Jules H. van Binsbergen, Sophia Hua and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Cross-Sectional Skewness

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 05 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2021
Sangmin Oh and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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rare events, jumps, idiosyncratic volatility, power law

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Bayesian Performance Evaluation

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 23 Apr 1999
Klaas Baks, Jessica A. Wachter and Andrew Metrick
Emory University - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Yale School of Management
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Bayesian Performance Evaluation

NBER Working Paper No. w7069
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jul 2000 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2022
Klaas Baks, Jessica A. Wachter and Andrew Metrick
Emory University - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Yale School of Management
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Learning with Rare Disasters

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 25 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Yicheng Zhu
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Option Prices in a Model with Stochastic Disaster Risk

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 76, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 26 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2020
Sang Byung Seo and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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implied volatilities, consumption disasters, jump-diffusions

Option Prices in a Model with Stochastic Disaster Risk

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 55
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Sang Byung Seo and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Option Prices in a Model with Stochastic Disaster Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w19611
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 09 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
Sang Byung Seo and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Risk, Unemployment, and the Stock Market: A Rare-Event-Based Explanation of Labor Market Volatility

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 73, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2020
Mete Kilic and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Foreseen Risks

Number of pages: 71 Posted: 12 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2023
Joao F. Gomes, Marco Grotteria and Jessica A. Wachter
The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Credit Bubbles, Financial intermediaries, Financial Crises, Risk Shifting

Foreseen Risks

NBER Working Paper No. w25277
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2023
Joao F. Gomes, Marco Grotteria and Jessica A. Wachter
The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market?

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Mar 2005
Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Downloads 584 (80,051)
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Predictable Returns and Asset Allocation: Should a Skeptical Investor Time the Market?

NBER Working Paper No. w13165
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2022
Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Cyclical Dispersion in Expected Defaults

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 10 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Joao F. Gomes, Marco Grotteria and Jessica A. Wachter
The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 658 (68,889)
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Expected Default, Bond Issuance, Business Cycles, Disaster Risk

Cyclical Dispersion in Expected Defaults

NBER Working Paper No. w23704
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 21 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2023
Joao F. Gomes, Marco Grotteria and Jessica A. Wachter
The Wharton School, London Business School and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Sovereign Default and the Decline in Interest Rates

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 08 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2023
Max Miller, James D. Paron and Jessica A. Wachter
Harvard Business School, Finance Unit, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Why Do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 11, 2010, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 16 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Jessica A. Wachter and Motohiro Yogo
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Decreasing relative risk aversion, Engel curves, Life-cycle model, Nonhomothetic utility, Portfolio choice

Why Do Household Portfolio Shares Rise in Wealth?

NBER Working Paper No. w16316
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 30 Jan 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Motohiro Yogo
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Equity Premium

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 57, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 May 2014 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2020
Efstathios Avdis and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 554 (85,602)
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Equity Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w19684
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2023
Efstathios Avdis and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Habit Formation and Returns on Bonds and Stocks

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Mar 2001
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Habit Formation and Returns on Bonds and Stocks

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-02-04
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Habit Formation and Returns on Bonds and Stocks

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-01-024
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Habit Formation and Returns on Bonds and Stocks

NYU Working Paper No. S-CDM-01-06
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Habit Formation and Returns on Bonds and Stocks

NYU Working Paper No. S-AM-01-04
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Do Rare Events Explain CDX Tranche Spreads?

Forthcoming, Journal of Finance, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 90 Posted: 19 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Sang Byung Seo and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 481 (101,959)
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disaster risk, financial crisis, collateralized debt obligations

Do Rare Events Explain Cdx Tranche Spreads?

NBER Working Paper No. w22723
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 10 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2023
Sang Byung Seo and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Wisconsin - Madison and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Memory of Past Experiences and Economic Decisions

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 28 Jan 2022
Ulrike Malmendier and Jessica A. Wachter
University of California, Berkeley - Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 486 (101,747)
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Why is Long-Horizon Equity Less Risky? A Duration-Based Explanation of the Value Premium

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Feb 2005
Martin Lettau and Jessica A. Wachter
University of California - Haas School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 308 (168,882)
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Value, Growth, duration, habit formation

Why is Long-Horizon Equity Less Risky? A Duration-Based Explanation of the Value Premium

NBER Working Paper No. w11144
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2022
Jessica A. Wachter and Martin Lettau
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of California - Haas School of Business
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Why is Long-Horizon Equity Less Risky? A Duration-Based Explanation of the Value Premium

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 15 Jun 2005
Jessica A. Wachter and Martin Lettau
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of California - Haas School of Business
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Value, growth, duration, habit formation

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A Consumption-Based Model of the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Working Paper No. 27-04
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Sep 2004
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Risks to Human Capital

Number of pages: 99 Posted: 05 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2023
Mehran Ebrahimian and Jessica A. Wachter
Stockholm School of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Financing Frictions, Human Capital, Asset Pricing, Moral Hazard, Disaster Risks

Risks to Human Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w26823
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2022
Mehran Ebrahimian and Jessica A. Wachter
Stockholm School of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Portfolio and Consumption Decisions Under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Nov 2001
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Portfolio and Consumption Decisions Under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

Posted: 12 Dec 2001
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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Can Time-Varying Risk of Rare Disasters Explain Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2012
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 267 (195,848)
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Rare disasters, Peso problem, Excess volatility

Can Time-Varying Risk of Rare Disasters Explain Aggregate Stock Market Volatility?

NBER Working Paper No. w14386
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 10 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2022
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 28 Nov 2003
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?

NYU Working Paper No. SC-AM-03-02
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-03-02
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-03-003
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors?

NYU Working Paper No. S-DRP-03-02
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Nov 2008
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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What is the Chance that the Equity Premium Varies over Time? Evidence from Regressions on the Dividend-Price Ratio

AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 20 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2013
Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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What is the Chance that the Equity Premium Varies Over Time? Evidence from Regressions on the Dividend-Price Ratio

NBER Working Paper No. w17334
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 29 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 14 May 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Missaka Warusawitharana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Pricing Long-Lived Securities in Dynamic Endowment Economies

Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 11 Aug 2020
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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rare events, recursive utility, factor models

Pricing Long-Lived Securities in Dynamic Endowment Economies

NBER Working Paper No. w24641
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 01 May 2022
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Associative Learning and Representativeness

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 12 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2023
Jessica A. Wachter and Michael J. Kahana
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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Context, Memory, Diagnostic expectations

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Risk Aversion and Allocation to Long-Term Bonds

NYU Working Paper No. S-CDM-01-10
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 05 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Risk Aversion and Allocation to Long-Term Bonds

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-01-067
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Risk Aversion and Allocation to Long-Term Bonds

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-01-05
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Generalized Method of Moments for Samples of Unequal Length

AFA 2005 Philadelphia Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Jan 2005
Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Asset Allocation

NBER Working Paper No. w16255
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2023
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Asset Allocation

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 2, pp. 175-206, 2010
Posted: 12 Nov 2010
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Allocation Under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. S-AM-00-07
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Allocation Under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-00-027
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Optimal Consumption and Portfolio Allocation Under Mean-Reverting Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-00-05
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Disaster Risk and its Implications for Asset Pricing

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 77
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 28 Jan 2015
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Disaster Risk and its Implications for Asset Pricing

NBER Working Paper No. w20926
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 09 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Disaster Risk and its Implications for Asset Pricing

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 219-252, 2015
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation of the Equity Premium

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 54
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 23 Nov 2013
Efstathios Avdis and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Alberta - Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Using Samples of Unequal Length in Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-08-018
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 09 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 13 Dec 2011
Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
Downloads 45 (703,539)
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Using Samples of Unequal Length in Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-05-021
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Using Samples of Unequal Length in Generalized Method of Moments Estimation

NBER Working Paper No. w14411
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Oct 2008 Last Revised: 18 Nov 2022
Anthony W. Lynch and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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38.

The Term Structures of Equity and Interest Rates

NBER Working Paper No. w14698
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 31 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 31 Aug 2022
Martin Lettau and Jessica A. Wachter
University of California - Haas School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors

NBER Working Paper No. w10086
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 16 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2022
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Does the Failure of the Expectations Hypothesis Matter for Long-Term Investors

NYU Working Paper No. S-CDM-03-13
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 05 Nov 2008
Antonios A. Sangvinatsos and Jessica A. Wachter
New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Portfolio and Consumption Decisions Under Mean-Revering Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. S-MF-01-04
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 12 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Portfolio and Consumption Decisions Under Mean-Revering Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. S-AM-01-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 13 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Portfolio and Consumption Decisions Under Mean-Revering Returns: An Exact Solution for Complete Markets

NYU Working Paper No. FIN-01-055
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 03 Nov 2008
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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41.

Solving Models with External Habit

NBER Working Paper No. w11559
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Sep 2005 Last Revised: 03 Aug 2022
Jessica A. Wachter
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Rare Booms and Disasters in a Multi-Sector Endowment Economy

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 43, Jacobs Levy Equity Management Center for Quantitative Financial Research Paper
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 29 Jan 2014
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Rare Booms and Disasters in a Multi-Sector Endowment Economy

NBER Working Paper No. w20062
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 21 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2023
Jerry Tsai and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Oxford - Department of Economicsaffiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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43.

Risk, Unemployment, and the Stock Market: A Rare-Event-Based Explanation of Labor Market Volatility

NBER Working Paper No. w21575
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 21 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2023
Mete Kilic and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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44.

Multivariate Stochastic Volatility Modeling of Neural Data

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Aug 2019
Tung Phan, Jessica A. Wachter, Ethan A. Solomon and Michael J. Kahana
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department, University of Pennsylvania - Department of Bioengineering and University of Pennsylvania - Department of Psychology
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stochastic volatility models, electrophysiology, model-based connectivity, verbal memory

45.

Cross-Sectional Skewness

NBER Working Paper No. w25113
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 01 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2022
Simon Oh and Jessica A. Wachter
University of Chicago and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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46.

"Superstitious" Investors

NBER Working Paper No. w25603
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 04 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2023
Hongye Guo and Jessica A. Wachter
The University of Hong Kong - University of Hong Kong and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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47.

Should Investors Avoid All Actively Managed Mutual Funds? A Study in Bayesian Performance Evaluation

Posted: 13 Jun 2001
Klaas Baks, Jessica A. Wachter and Andrew Metrick
Emory University - Department of Finance, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Yale School of Management

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