Luca Benzoni

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department

230 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, IL 60604

United States

http://lbenzoni.frbchi.googlepages.com/

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Scholarly Papers (30)

1.

Realized Volatility

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2008-14
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2008
Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department
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Realized Volatility, Stochastic Volatility, Quadratic Variation, Bipower Variation, Variance Swap, Impled Volatility

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Stochastic Volatility

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 21 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2010
Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department
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Stochastic Volatility, Realized Volatility, Impled Volatility, Options, Smirk, Smile, Term Structure of Interest Rates, Affine Models

Stochastic Volatility

CREATES Research Paper No. 2010-10
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Feb 2010
Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department
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Stochastic Volatility, Realized Volatility, Implied Volatility, Options, Volatility Smirk, Volatility Smile, Dynamic Term Structure Models, Affine Models

Why Does the Yield-Curve Slope Predict Recessions?

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2018
Luca Benzoni, Olena Chyruk and David Kelley
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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yield-curve slope, recession forecasts, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path

Why Does the Yield-Curve Slope Predict Recessions?

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2018-15
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 10 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Luca Benzoni, Olena Chyruk and David Kelley
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Interest rates, yield-curve slope, recession forecasts, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path

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Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle when the Stock and Labor Markets are Cointegrated

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2007-11
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 16 Jan 2006
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Human Capital, Risky Labor Income, Limited Stock Market Participation, Portfolio Choice, Life Cycle

Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification Test for Affine Term Structure Models

AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper, FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2006-15
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 15 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2008
Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department
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Interest Rate Volatility, Hedging, Volatility Risk, Unspanned Stochastic Volatility, Affine Models, Term Structure Models

Do Bonds Span Volatility Risk in the U.S. Treasury Market? A Specification Test for Affine Term Structure Models

NBER Working Paper No. w12962
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2022
Torben G. Andersen and Luca Benzoni
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department
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Monetary Policy, Inflation Outlook, and Recession Probabilities

FEDS Notes No. 2022-07-12
Posted: 21 Jul 2022
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Independent, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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Monetary Policy, Inflation Outlook, and Recession Probabilities

Economic Perspectives, No. 4, 2022
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 03 Aug 2022
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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yield-curve slope, recession forecasts, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path, inflation forecasts, near-term forward spread, Asset Markets and Pricing, Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Business Fluctuations, Cycles, Prices

Monetary Policy, Inflation Outlook, and Recession Probabilities

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Jul 2022
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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yield-curve slope, recession forecasts, near-term forward spread, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path

Monetary Policy, Inflation Outlook, and Recession Probabilities

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2022-31
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Jul 2022
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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yield-curve slope, recession forecasts, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path, inflation forecasts, near-term forward spread

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Can Standard Preferences Explain the Prices of Out-of-The-Money S&P 500 Put Options?

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Aug 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Volatility smile, volatility smirk, implied volatility, option pricing, portfolio insurance, market risk

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Debt Dynamics with Fixed Issuance Costs

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 25 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Capital structure; Debt dynamics; Commitment; Issuance costs; Debt maturity

Debt Dynamics with Fixed Issuance Costs

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2023-01
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 10 Jan 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Capital structure; Debt dynamics; Commitment; Issuance costs; Debt maturity

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Conflict of Interest or Certification? Evidence from IPOs Underwritten by the Firm's Relationship Bank

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2007-09
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2009
Luca Benzoni and Carola Schenone
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and University of Virginia - McIntire School
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Conflicts of interest, lending relationships, IPOs, Glass Steagall Act

Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle in the Presence of 'Trickle Down' Labor Income

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 23 Jan 2005
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Labor Income Risk, Optimal Portfolio Choice, Limited Stock Market Participation, Human Capital

Portfolio Choice Over the Life-Cycle in the Presence of 'Trickle Down' Labor Income

NBER Working Paper No. w11247
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 18 May 2005 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Core and 'Crust': Consumer Prices and the Term Structure of Interest Rates

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 29 May 2011 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2012
Andrea Ajello, Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Downloads 492 (116,387)
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term structure of interest rates, real rates, inflation, inflation risk premium, real rate risk premium

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Explaining Pre- and Post-1987 Crash Asset Prices Within a Unified General Equilibrium Framework

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Feb 2007 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Volatility Smile, Volatility Smirk, Implied Volatility, Option Pricing, Portfolio Insurance, Market Risk, Individual Stock Options

Modeling Credit Contagion via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 05 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
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Contagion, sovereign risk, CDS pricing, fragile beliefs, learning, affine models

Modeling Credit Contagion Via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs

Netspar Discussion Paper No. 12/2011-123 - revised version February 2014
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 24 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2016
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
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Explaining Asset Pricing Puzzles Associated with the 1987 Market Crash

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2011
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Volatility Smile, Volatility Smirk, Implied Volatility, Option Pricing, Portfolio Insurance, Market Risk

Incomplete Information, Debt Issuance, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2020
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Bond pricing; Credit spreads; Jumps to Default

Incomplete Information, Debt Issuance, and the Term Structure of Credit Spreads

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2019-8
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Credit spreads, Capital structure, Corporate Default, Debt, Jumps to Default, Investments

Investing over the Life Cycle with Long-Run Labor Income Risk

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2009
Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Human Capital, Labor Income Risk, Long-Run Risk, Limited Stock Market Participation, Portfolio Choice, Life Cycle

Investing Over the Life Cycle with Long-Run Labor Income Risk

Economic Perspectives, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Oct 2009
Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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What Does the CDS Market Imply for a U.S. Default?

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 25 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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U.S. default, U.S. CDS, default probabilities, sovereign CDS, debt ceiling

What Does the CDS Market Imply for a U.S. Default?

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2023-17
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 24 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 21 May 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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U.S. default; U.S. CDS; default probabilities; sovereign CDS; debt ceiling

What Does the CDS Market Imply for a U.S. Default?

Economic Perspectives, No. 4, 2023
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 20 Oct 2023
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of New York
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U.S. default; U.S. CDS; default probabilities; sovereign CDS; debt ceiling

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The Value and Risk of Human Capital

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2015-6
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 27 Oct 2015
Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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human capital, labor income, employment

The Value and Risk of Human Capital

Annual Review of Financial Economics, Vol. 7, pp. 179-200, 2015
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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An Empirical Investigation of Continuous-Time Equity Return Models

NBER Working Paper No. w8510
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Sep 2001 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2022
Torben G. Andersen, Luca Benzoni and Jesper Lund
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance
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An Empirical Investigation of Continuous-Time Equity Return Models

Posted: 12 Nov 2002
Torben G. Andersen, Luca Benzoni and Jesper Lund
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Finance

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No-Arbitrage Restrictions and the U.S. Treasury Market

Economic Perspectives, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 08 May 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2012
Andrea Ajello, Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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No-arbitrage restrictions, U.S. Treasury market, dynamic term structure models, affine models, limits to arbitrage

No-Arbitrage Restrictions and the U.S. Treasury Market

Economic Perspectives, Vol. XXXVI, No. 2, p. 55, 2012
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 17 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 20 Jul 2012
Andrea Ajello, Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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no-arbitrage restrictions, U.S. Treasury market, dynamic term structure models, affine models, limits to arbitrage, Asset Pricing, Trading volume, Bond Interest Rates, Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects, Banks, Other Depository Institutions, Micro Finance Institutions

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Conflict of Interest and Certification in the U.S. IPO Market

Journal of Financial Intermediation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 25 Aug 2009
Luca Benzoni and Carola Schenone
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and University of Virginia - McIntire School
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Glass-Steagall Act, IPOs, Certification, Conflict of Interest, Lending Relationships

The Interplay between Financial Conditions and Monetary Policy Shocks

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2016-11
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Oct 2016
Marco Bassetto, Luca Benzoni and Trevor Serrao
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Downloads 91 (567,907)
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Excess bond premium, financial conditions, monetary policy, zero lower bound

The Interplay between Financial Conditions and Monetary Policy Shocks

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 17 Oct 2016
Marco Bassetto, Luca Benzoni and Trevor Serrao
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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excess bond premium, financial conditions, monetary policy shocks, zero lower bound

Estimating the Tax and Credit-Event Risk Components of Credit Spreads

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. WP-2017-17
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2017
Luca Benzoni and Robert S. Goldstein
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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Credit risk, investment grade (IG), tax liability, liquidity risk

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Sources of Fluctuations in Short-Term Yields and Recession Probabilities

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 09 Aug 2022
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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yield‐curve slope, recession forecasts, monetary policy, bond risk premia, policy path, inflation forecasts, near‐term forward spread

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Core and 'Crust': Consumer Prices and the Term Structure of Interest Rates -- Online Appendix

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 23 Dec 2012
Andrea Ajello, Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Downloads 102 (521,677)
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term structure of interest rates, real rates, inflation, inflation risk premium

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Human Capital and Long-Run Labor Income Risk

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 30 Nov 2013
Luca Benzoni and Olena Chyruk
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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human capital, labor income risk, portfolio choice, life cycle

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Modeling Credit Contagion Via the Updating of Fragile Beliefs -- Online Appendix

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 29 Jan 2015
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management and UC Riverside
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Contagion, sovereign risk, CDS pricing, fragile beliefs, learning, affine models

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Can Standard Preferences Explain the Prices of Out of the Money S&P 500 Put Options

NBER Working Paper No. w11861
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 26 Dec 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - Carlson School of Management
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On the Mechanics of Fiscal Inflations

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2024-15
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Aug 2024
Marco Bassetto, Luca Benzoni and Jason Hall
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
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fiscal theory of the price level, FTPL, unpleasant monetarist arithmetic, monetarism, Redistribution effect of inflation, Fiscal Inflation

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On the Mechanics of Fiscal Inflations 

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 16 Jul 2024
Marco Bassetto, Luca Benzoni and Jason Hall
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Research Department and University of Minnesota - Minneapolis
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fiscal theory of the price level, FTPL, unpleasant monetarist arithmetic, monetarism, Redistribution effect of inflation, Fiscal Inflation