Fernando Zapatero

Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Analytic Pricing of Employee Stock Options

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 03 Nov 2004
Jaksa Cvitanic, Fernando Zapatero and Zvi Wiener
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Questrom School of Business, Boston University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration
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Employee stock options, early exercise, analytic formula

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The Trade-Off Model with Mean Reverting Earnings: Theory and Empirical Tests

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The Trade-Off Model with Mean Reverting Earnings: Theory and Empirical Tests

Economic Journal, Vol. 113, pp. 834-860, October 2003
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Oct 2003
Sudipto Sarkar and Fernando Zapatero
McMaster University - Finance & Business Economics and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Asset Pricing Implications of Benchmarking: A Two-Factor CAPM

European Journal of Finance Vol.9, p. 343-357, August 2003
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Oct 2003 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2015
Juan-Pedro Gomez and Fernando Zapatero
IE Business School - IE University and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Asset pricing, benchmark portfolio, relative performance

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A Tale of Two Types: Generalists vs. Specialists in Asset Management

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 26 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Rafael Zambrana and Fernando Zapatero
University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Mutual Fund, Asset Management, Human Capital, Portfolio Manager, Specialist, Generalist, Idiosyncratic Risk, Market Timing, Stock Picking, Systematic Risk

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The Representative Agent of an Economy with External Habit-Formation and Heterogeneous Risk-Aversion

The Review of Financial Studies, August 2010.
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2018
Costas Xiouros and Fernando Zapatero
BI Norwegian Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Heterogeneous preferences, general equilibrium, closed-form expression

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Labor Income, Relative Wealth Concerns, and the Cross-section of Stock Returns

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2015
Juan-Pedro Gomez, Richard Priestley and Fernando Zapatero
IE Business School - IE University, Norwegian Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Labor income risk, relative wealth concerns, local risk hedging, negative risk premium

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Riding the Bubble with Convex Incentives

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 06.14
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 25 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2018
Juan M. Sotes-Paladino and Fernando Zapatero
Universidad de los Andes, Chile and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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money management, convex incentives, benchmarking, mispricing

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Executive Stock Options as a Screening Mechanism

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Executive Stock Options as a Screening Mechanism

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jun 2005 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2012
Abel Cadenillas, Jaksa Cvitanic and Fernando Zapatero
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
Downloads 136 (229,844)
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Executive Stock Options, Incomplete Information

Executive Stock Options as a Screening Mechanism

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Mar 2005
Abel Cadenillas, Fernando Zapatero and Jaksa Cvitanic
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Questrom School of Business, Boston University and California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Executive stock options, optimal compensation

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Does Competition between Stars Increase Output? Evidence from Financial Analyst Forecasts

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Gil Aharoni, Joshua Shemesh and Fernando Zapatero
University of Melbourne, Monash University - Department of Banking and Finance and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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star analysts, tournament incentives, forecast error, earnings predictability, firms’ information environment

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Demand for Lotteries: The Choice between Stocks and Options

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 11 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2018
Ilias Filippou, Pedro Angel Garcia-Ares and Fernando Zapatero
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Lottery-payoffs, Option Trading, Lottery Stocks

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Uncertainty and Dispersion of Opinions

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Uncertainty and Dispersion of Opinions

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 15 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2018
Min S. Kim and Fernando Zapatero
Michigan State University - Department of Finance and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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uncertainty, dispersion, forecasts, relative performance evaluation, stock recommendation

Rational Bias and Herding in Analysts' Recommendations

Posted: 03 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2011
Min S. Kim and Fernando Zapatero
Michigan State University - Department of Finance and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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stock recommendation, bias, herding, relative performance evaluation

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Why Do Financial Analysts Strive to Be Irrelevant? Career Concerns and Endogenous Coverage Termination

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Why Do Financial Analysts Strive to Be Irrelevant? Career Concerns and Endogenous Coverage Termination

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Nov 2014
Marco A. Navone and Fernando Zapatero
Finance Discipline Group - UTS Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Financial Analysts, Career Concerns, Idiosyncratic Risk

Why Do Financial Analysts Strive to Be Irrelevant? Career Concerns and Endogenous Coverage Termination

BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 2015-7
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 May 2015 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2016
Marco A. Navone and Fernando Zapatero
Finance Discipline Group - UTS Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Financial Analysts, Career Concerns, Idiosyncratic Risk

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A Class of Quadratic Options for Exchange Rate Stabilization

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Dec 2005
Sangwon Suh and Fernando Zapatero
Bank of Korea and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Foreign exchange intervention, exotic options

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The Intensity of Keeping Up with the Joneses Behavior: Evidence from Neighbor Effects in Car Purchases

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 02 Sep 2016
Joshua Shemesh and Fernando Zapatero
Monash University - Department of Banking and Finance and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Relative Wealth Concerns, Conspicuous Consumption

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Helping the Little Guy: The Impact of Government Awards on Small Technology Firms

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2019
Aleksandar Giga, Alexandra Graddy-Reed, Andrea Belz, Richard Terrile and Fernando Zapatero
University of Southern California, Sol Price School of Public Policy University of Southern California, University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Innovation Policy, SBIR, R&D Subsidies, Entrepreneurship

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Carrot and Stick: A Risk-Sharing Rationale for Fulcrum Fees in Active Fund Management

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 26 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2020
Juan M. Sotes-Paladino and Fernando Zapatero
Universidad de los Andes, Chile and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Portfolio delegation, benchmarking, fulcrum fees, asymmetric information, passive management

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Short Squeeze Uncertainty and Skewness

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 16 Aug 2019
Ilias Filippou, Pedro Angel Garcia-Ares and Fernando Zapatero
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Short Squeeze, Anomalies, limits to arbitrage

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Rolling the Skewed Die: Economic Foundations of the Demand for Skewness

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 May 2018
Suk Lee, Fernando Zapatero and Aleksandar Giga
University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, Questrom School of Business, Boston University and University of Southern California
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endogenous demand for skewness, utility function, aspiration, status

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Stock and Bond Prices with Disagreement and Habit Formation Preferences

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 19 Mar 2011
Costas Xiouros and Fernando Zapatero
BI Norwegian Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Habit Formation, Disagreement, Heterogeneous Beliefs, Equilibrium

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Optimal Acquisition of a Partially Hedgeable House

Marshall School of Business Working Paper No. FBE 25-09
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 02 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2009
Coskun Cetin and Fernando Zapatero
California State University, Sacramento and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Stopping Time, Incomplete Markets, Martingale Methods

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Skewness Seeking in a Dynamic Portfolio Choice Experiment

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11056
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 27 Jan 2016
Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, Aleksandar Giga and Fernando Zapatero
University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Southern California and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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laboratory experiment, portfolio allocation, relative performance, skewed asset

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Mapping the 'Valley of Death': Managing Selection and Technology Advancement in NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 14 Jan 2019
Andrea Belz, Fernando Zapatero, Richard Terrile, Michael Kawas and Aleksandar Giga
University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, Government of the United States of America - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, University of Southern California - Department of Economics and University of Southern California
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TRL, NASA, SBIR, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Technology Maturity

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Disagreement, Information Quality and Asset Prices

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Costas Xiouros and Fernando Zapatero
BI Norwegian Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Asset Prices, Heterogeneous Expectations, Information Quality, Habit-Formation Preferences

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Optimal Dividend Policy with Mean-Reverting Cash Reservoir

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 81-109, January 2007
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 13 Dec 2006
Abel Cadenillas, Fernando Zapatero and Sudipto Sarkar
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Questrom School of Business, Boston University and McMaster University - Finance & Business Economics
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Impact of Government Grants on Venture Capital Funding of Deep Technology University Spinoffs

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 22 Jun 2020
Andrea Belz and Fernando Zapatero
University of Southern California - Viterbi School of Engineering and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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university spinoffs, venture capital, I-Corps, SBIR

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Risk Aversion in a Dynamic Asset Allocation Experiment

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10332
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Jan 2015
Isabelle Brocas, Juan D. Carrillo, Aleksandar Giga and Fernando Zapatero
University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Southern California - Department of Economics, University of Southern California and Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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CRRA, HARA, laboratory experiments, portfolio allocation, risk aversion

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Implications of Keeping up with the Joneses Behavior for the Equilibrium Cross Section of Stock Returns: International Evidence

Implications of Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses Behavior for the Equilibrium Cross Section of Stock Returns: International Evidence Juan-Pedro Gómez, Richard Priestley and Fernando Zapatero The Journal of Finance Vol. 64, No. 6 (Dec., 2009), pp. 2703-2737
Posted: 03 Feb 2009 Last Revised: 17 Mar 2015
Juan-Pedro Gomez, Richard Priestley and Fernando Zapatero
IE Business School - IE University, Norwegian Business School and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Keeping up with the Joneses, restricted market participation, international asset pricing, local risk, global risk

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Empirical Performance of Levy Option Pricing Models

Posted: 12 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2008
Ming Ji and Fernando Zapatero
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Levy Process, Fourier Transform

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Analytic Pricing of Employee Stock Options

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 683-724, 2008
Posted: 26 Jun 2008
Jakaa Cvitani, Zvi Wiener and Fernando Zapatero
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Jerusalem School of Business Administration and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Dynamic Portfolio Choice with Parameter Uncertainty and the Economic Value of Analysts' Recommendations

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 19, Issue 4, pp. 1113-1156, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Jak[scaron]a Cvitani[cacute], Fernando Zapatero, Ali Lazrak and Lionel Martellini
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Questrom School of Business, Boston University, University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business and EDHEC Business School

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Optimal Risk Taking with Flexible Income

AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper
Posted: 09 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2019
Jaksa Cvitanic, Levon Goukasian and Fernando Zapatero
California Institute of Technology - Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Pepperdine University - Business Division and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Utility Maximization, Optimal Portfolio Selection, Optimal Effort

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Classical and Impulse Stochastic Control of the Exchange Rate Using Interest Rates and Reserves

Mathematical Finance, Vol. 10, Issue 2, April 2000
Posted: 15 Dec 2000
Abel Cadenillas and Fernando Zapatero
University of Alberta - Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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On the Recoverability of Preferences and Beliefs

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2
Posted: 16 May 2000
Domenico Cuoco and Fernando Zapatero
University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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Valuation, Optimal Asset Allocation and Retirement Incentives of Pension Plans

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3
Posted: 30 Jul 1997
Suresh M. Sundaresan and Fernando Zapatero
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Questrom School of Business, Boston University

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