Lukas Schmid

University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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1.

Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-07
Number of pages: 93 Posted: 15 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 18 May 2024
Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid, Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Harvard University - Harvard Business School and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Corporate Bond Pricing, Intermediary Asset Pricing, Demand Systems, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, Bond Market Fragility, ZLB, Interest Rate Liftoff, Fed Corporate Credit Facility.

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Investment-Based Corporate Bond Pricing

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2014
Lars-Alexander Kuehn and Lukas Schmid
Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Real investment, dynamic capital structure, default risk, credit spreads, recursive preferences, macroeconomic risk

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Fiscal Policies and Asset Prices

Review of Financial Studies, 2012
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 15 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Howard Kung, Thien Tung Nguyen and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, London Business School, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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cost of equity, corporate tax uncertainty, tax smoothing

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Innovation, Growth, and Asset Prices

AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 21 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Howard Kung and Lukas Schmid
London Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Endogenous growth, asset pricing, innovation, R&D, productivity, recursive preferences

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Testing Dynamic Agency Theory via Structural Estimation

Simon School Working Paper No. FR 12-06, AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 15 Mar 2012
Boris Nikolov and Lukas Schmid
University of Lausanne and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Dynamic agency, q-theory, dynamic contracting, managerial compensation, structural estimation, capital structure

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Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

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Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

AFA 2010 Atlanta Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2011
Joao F. Gomes and Lukas Schmid
The Wharton School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Credit Spreads, Capital Structure, Equity Premium, Predictability, General Equilibrium

Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 42
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 06 Jun 2012
Joao F. Gomes and Lukas Schmid
The Wharton School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Equilibrium Credit Spreads and the Macroeconomy

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 18 Feb 2009
Joao F. Gomes and Lukas Schmid
The Wharton School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Credit Spreads, Capital Structure, Equity Premium, Preictability, General Equilibrium

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Interest Rate Risk Management in Uncertain Times

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 18 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2017
Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid and Andrea Vedolin
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Boston University - Department of Finance & Economics
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interest rate uncertainty, volatility, risk management, interest rate swaps, financial frictions, corporate investment, leverage, credit risk

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The Market Price of Fiscal Uncertainty

Carnegie-Rochester Conference Series on Public Policy, JME 2012
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 10 Mar 2017
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Thien Tung Nguyen and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Robustness, Endogenous Growth, Asset Prices

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Government Debt and the Returns to Innovation

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Government Debt and the Returns to Innovation

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2016-03-10, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2016-10
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 24 May 2016 Last Revised: 25 Jul 2018
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Thien Tung Nguyen, Steve Raymond and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Government Debt, Fiscal Uncertainty, Cross Section of Stock Returns, Predictability, R&D, Growth

Government Debt and the Returns to Innovation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12617
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 22 Jan 2018
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Thien Tung Nguyen, Steve Raymond and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Cross Section of Stock Returns, Fiscal Uncertainty, Government Debt, growth, predictability, R&D

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Competition, Markups and Predictable Returns

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 27 Aug 2019
Alexandre Corhay, Howard Kung and Lukas Schmid
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, London Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Production-based asset pricing, imperfect competition, time-varying risk premia, stock return predictability, recursive preferences

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Marking to Market Corporate Debt

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-06, USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB, No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 25 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2022
Lorenzo Bretscher, Peter Feldhütter, Andrew Kane and Lukas Schmid
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, Copenhagen Business School, Duke University, Fuqua School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Corporate Debt Valuations, Tobin's Q, Leverage Premium

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Dynamic Corporate Liquidity

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 13 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 20 May 2017
Boris Nikolov, Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri
University of Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Luxembourg
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Corporate liquidity, cash, credit lines, debt capacity, leverage, corporate investment, hedging

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Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-Mandated Corporate Bond Funds

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 23-42
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 14 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 19 Sep 2023
Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid and Tiange Ye
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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demand shifts, passive funds, corporate bonds, demand elasticity, ETFs, mutual funds

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The Sources of Financing Constraints

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 18-74, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 641/2019
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 01 May 2023
Boris Nikolov, Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri
University of Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Luxembourg
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Financing constraints, financial frictions, moral hazard, limited enforcement, tradeoff, dynamic contracting, agency, structural estimation, empirical policy function estimation

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Q: Risk, Rents, or Growth?

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB, No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 26 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2023
Alexandre Corhay, Howard Kung and Lukas Schmid
University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management, London Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Tobin's Q, Aggregate demand, Simulated method of moments, Corporate investment, Intangible capital, Innovation, Industry concentration

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A Quantitative Dynamic Agency Model of Financing Constraints

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Jul 2009
Lukas Schmid
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Dynamic Agency, Limited Enforcement, Financing Constraints, Capital Structure, Investment, Cross-Section of Stock Returns

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The Risks of Safe Assets

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The Risks of Safe Assets

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2021
Yang Liu, Lukas Schmid, Amir Yaron and Amir Yaron
The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Bank of IsraelUniversity of Pennsylvania -- Wharton School of Business
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Government debt, safe assets, liquidity premium, uncertainty, growth, fiscal costs, risk premia, credit spreads, cost of capital, unconventional stabilization policies

The Risks of Safe Assets

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16407
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 27 Sep 2021
Lukas Schmid, Yang Liu, Amir Yaron and Amir Yaron
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics and Bank of IsraelUniversity of Pennsylvania -- Wharton School of Business
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fiscal costs, Government Debt, risk premia, safe assets

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Levered Returns

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 02 Mar 2007
Joao F. Gomes and Lukas Schmid
The Wharton School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Cross-section of Returns, Growth Options, Financing, Leverage, Capital Structure

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Credit Market Equivalents and the Valuation of Private Firms

USC Marshall School of Business Research Paper Sponsored by iORB, No. Forthcoming
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 16 Oct 2019 Last Revised: 01 May 2023
Niklas Hüther (Huether), Lukas Schmid and Roberto Steri
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Luxembourg
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Private equity, buyouts, pricing kernel, performance evaluation, loan returns, secondary market trading, machine learning, portfolio company level PE data

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Sticky Leverage

The Wharton School Research Paper No. 52
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 May 2013 Last Revised: 11 May 2016
Joao F. Gomes, Urban J. Jermann and Lukas Schmid
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Citation 86

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Debt deflation, debt overhang, monetary non-neutrality

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A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation

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A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 14 Apr 2017
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Anastasios G. Karantounias, Steve Raymond and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, University of Surrey - School of Economics, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Innovation, endogenous growth, government debt, labor tax, subsidy, profit tax

A Tax Plan for Endogenous Innovation

FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2017-13
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 23 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2020
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Anastasios G. Karantounias, Stephen Raymond and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, University of Surrey - School of Economics, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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innovation, R&D investment, endogenous growth, government debt, labor tax, subsidy, profit tax

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Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation

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Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation

Number of pages: 75 Posted: 18 Oct 2018
Joel David, Lukas Schmid and David Zeke
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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Misallocation, Costs of Business Cycles, Cross-Section of Returns, Time-Varying Risk Premia

Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13205
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 02 Oct 2018
Lukas Schmid, Joel David and David Zeke
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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costs of business cycles, cross-section of returns, Misallocation, time-varying risk premia

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Global Entropy

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 16 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2015
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Thien Tung Nguyen and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Global Growth, Entropy, Contagion

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Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation

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Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2020-34
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 28 Dec 2020
Joel Michael David, Lukas Schmid and David Zeke
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California - Department of Economics
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misallocation, productivity, costs of business cycles, risk premia

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Government Debt Management and Inflation with Real and Nominal Bonds

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Government Debt Management and Inflation with Real and Nominal Bonds

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2022
Lukas Schmid, Vytautas Valaitis and Alessandro T. Villa
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO) and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Optimal Fiscal Policy, Optimal Debt Management, TIPS, Incomplete Markets, Inflation, Inflation Risk Premia, Monetary Policy, Machine Learning, Time Inconsistency.

Government Debt Management and Inflation with Real and Nominal Bonds

FRB of Chicago Working Paper No. 2022-28
Posted: 24 Jun 2022
Lukas Schmid, Vytautas Valaitis and Alessandro Villa
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, European University Institute - Economics Department (ECO) and Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

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Optimal Fiscal Policy, Optimal Debt Management, TIPS, Incomplete Markets, Inflation, Inflation Risk Premia, Monetary Policy, Machine Learning, Time Inconsistency

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A New Test for an Old Puzzle

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 10 Jan 2024
Lorenzo Bretscher, Peter Feldhütter, Andrew Kane and Lukas Schmid
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, Copenhagen Business School, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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credit spread puzzle, credit risk, corporate debt, bond pricing, loan pricing

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The Term Structure of Covered Interest Rate Parity Violations

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The Term Structure of Cip Violations

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14774
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 28 May 2020 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2021
Patrick Augustin, Patrick Augustin, Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid and Dongho Song
McGill UniversityMcGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, UCLA Anderson, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Granular Treasury Demand with Arbitrageurs

Number of pages: 90
Kristy A.E. Jansen, Wenhao Li and Lukas Schmid
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business
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Treasury demand, financial intermediaries, arbitrage, monetary policy, quantitative easing

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Benchmark Interest Rates When the Government is Risky

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Benchmark Interest Rates When the Government is Risky

NBER Working Paper No. w26429
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 06 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Patrick Augustin, Patrick Augustin, Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid and Dongho Song
McGill UniversityMcGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, UCLA Anderson, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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Benchmark Interest Rates When the Government is Risky

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14105
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 15 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 02 Dec 2019
Patrick Augustin, Patrick Augustin, Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid and Dongho Song
McGill UniversityMcGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, UCLA Anderson, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School
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negative swap rates, recursive preferences, sovereign credit risk, term structure

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A Macrofinance View of U.S. Sovereign CDS Premiums

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11576
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Oct 2016
Mikhail Chernov, Lukas Schmid and Andres Schneider
UCLA Anderson, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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credit default swaps, recursive preferences, sovereign default

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Fiscal Policy and the Distribution of Consumption Risk

Posted: 29 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 19 Nov 2018
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Thien Tung Nguyen and Lukas Schmid
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Federal Reserve Board of Governors and University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business

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Fiscal Policy, Endogenous Growth, Recursive Preferences, Welfare Costs