Jefferson Duarte

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

6100 South Main Street

P.O. Box 1892

Houston, TX 77005-1892

United States

http://www.jefferson-duarte.com/

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Scholarly Papers (23)

1.

Risk and Return in Fixed Income Arbitrage: Nickels in Front of a Steamroller?

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 28 Dec 2005
Jefferson Duarte, Francis A. Longstaff and Fan Yu
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area and Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance
Downloads 3,806 (6,317)
Citation 63

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Trust and Credit

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 16 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2010
Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 2,147 (15,789)
Citation 14

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Trust, information asymmetry, consumer credit, peer-to-peer lending

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The Price of Market Volatility Risk

AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Mar 2008
Jefferson Duarte and Christopher S. Jones
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department
Downloads 2,073 (16,688)
Citation 34

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volatility, options

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Citation 39

Why is PIN Priced?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 21 Mar 2007
Jefferson Duarte and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 1,112 (42,168)
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Liquidity, Information Asymmetry

Why is PIN Priced?

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 29 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 02 Nov 2007
Jefferson Duarte and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 311 (208,920)
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Liquidity, Information Asymmetry

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The Systematic Risk of Idiosyncratic Volatility

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 05 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2014
Jefferson Duarte, Avraham Kamara, Stephan Siegel and Celine Sun
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Wealthfront, Inc.
Downloads 1,295 (34,278)
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The Impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act on Shareholders and Managers of Foreign Firms

Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 02 Oct 2007 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2013
Jefferson Duarte, Katie Kong, Lance A. Young and Stephan Siegel
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads 1,106 (43,167)
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Sarbanes-Oxley, international listings, regulation

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Too Good to Be True: Look-ahead Bias in Empirical Options Research

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 31 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2024
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), University of Kansas and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Downloads 1,042 (46,893)

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Options; look-ahead bias

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A Comparison of Some Structural Models of Private Information Arrival

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2019
Jefferson Duarte, Edwin Hu and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia - School of Law and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 930 (55,013)
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Liquidity; Information Asymmetry

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The Cross-Section of Volatility and Expected Returns: Then and Now

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Sep 2019
Baylor University - Hankamer School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and Wealthfront, Inc.
Downloads 835 (63,817)
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Volatility risk, idiosyncratic risk, cross-section of returns, limits to arbitrage

10.

The Evolution of P2P Lending

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 21 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2023
Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 762 (72,052)
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P2P Lending, Marketplace lending, herding, signaling, discrimination, financial intermediation, fintech

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Very Noisy Option Prices and Inference Regarding the Volatility Risk Premium

Journal of Finance forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 25 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2023
Jefferson Duarte, Christopher S. Jones and Junbo L. Wang
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business - Finance and Business Economics Department and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Downloads 738 (75,130)
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Options; Volatility risk premium; Microstructure bias; Robustness

12.

Davids, Goliaths, and Business Cycles

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 03 Oct 2012 Last Revised: 26 May 2017
Jefferson Duarte and Nishad Kapadia
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Tulane University - Finance & Economics
Downloads 654 (87,665)
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Business cycles, financial constraints, market returns, investment growth

The Causal Effect of Mortgage Refinancing on Interest-Rate Volatility: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Jul 2004
Jefferson Duarte
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
Downloads 389 (163,264)
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Mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate volatility

The Causal Effect of Mortgage Refinancing on Interest-Rate Volatility: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 29 Mar 2007
Jefferson Duarte
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate volatility

The Causal Effect of Mortgage Refinancing on Interest Rate Volatility: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Implications

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 1689-1731, 2008
Posted: 08 Aug 2008
Jefferson Duarte
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

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G12, G13, G21

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Why Does Corporate Governance Explain Credit Spreads?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2008
Jefferson Duarte, Fan Yu and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Claremont McKenna College - Robert Day School of Economics and Finance and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 565 (105,627)
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Credit Spreads, Information Asymmetry, Corporate Governance

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Can Liquidity Events Explain the Low-Short-Interest Puzzle? Implications from the Options Market

EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Dec 2005
Jefferson Duarte, Ronnie Sadka and Xiaoxia Lou
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Boston College - Carroll School of Management and University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics
Downloads 456 (137,330)
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Short-sale constraints, Liquidity, Limits to arbitrage, Asset-pricing anomalies

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Information Asymmetry, Information Dissemination and the Effect of Regulation FD on the Cost of Capital

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Mar 2007
Jefferson Duarte, Xi Han, Jarrad Harford and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics, University of Washington and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 451 (139,180)
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Regulation FD, Cost of Capital, Information Asymmetry

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To Lend or Not to Lend: Revealed Attitudes towards Gender, Ethnicity, Weight, and Age in the U.S.

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 30 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2015
Jefferson Duarte, Stephan Siegel and Lance A. Young
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business and University of Washington - Department of Finance and Business Economics
Downloads 366 (176,538)
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Discrimination, consumer credit, peer-to-peer lending

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Can Liquidity Events Explain the Low-Short-Interest Puzzle? Implications from the Options Market*

8th Annual Texas Finance Festival
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 07 Apr 2006
Jefferson Duarte, Xiaoxia Lou and Ronnie Sadka
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Delaware - Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics and Boston College - Carroll School of Management
Downloads 356 (181,988)
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Short-sale constraints, Liquidity, Limits to arbitrage, Asset-pricing anomalies

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Residential Mortgage Credit Derivatives

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Oct 2008
Jefferson Duarte and Douglas A. McManus
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Retired
Downloads 316 (207,030)
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Credit risk, residential mortgages, credit derivatives

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Identifying the Portfolio Balance Mechanism

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 12 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2025
Jefferson Duarte and Tarik Umar
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University
Downloads 218 (303,112)
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E43, E52, G21, G22 Portfolio balance mechanism, securitization, tranching, preferred habitat, limits to arbitrage, safe assets, financial crisis, quantitative easing

21.

How Does Failure Spread Across Broker-Dealers and Dealer Banks?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Jul 2014
Jefferson Duarte and Adam C. Kolasinski
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Texas A&M University - Department of Finance
Downloads 154 (412,892)
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Contagion, Financial Crisis, Banking Crises, Funding Liquidity, Market Liquidity, Broker-Dealers, Subprime

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Nonparametric Option Pricing Under Shape Restrictions

NBER Working Paper No. w8944
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 17 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2022
Yacine Ait-Sahalia and Jefferson Duarte
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
Downloads 128 (479,419)
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Can the Common-Factor Hypothesis Explain the Observed Housing Wealth Effect?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 27 Dec 2015
Narayan Bulusu, Jefferson Duarte and Carles Vergara-Alert
Bank of Canada, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Navarra, IESE Business School
Downloads 76 (682,489)

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Wealth effect, housing supply