Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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1.

Downside Variance Risk Premium

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Downside Variance Risk Premium

Forthcoming in the Journal of Financial Econometrics.
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 07 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 23 May 2017
Bruno Feunou, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Cedric Okou
Bank of Canada, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
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Risk-neutral volatility, Realized volatility, Downside and upside variance risk premium, Skewness risk premium

Downside Variance Risk Premium

FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-020, http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.020
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 26 Apr 2015
Bruno Feunou, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Cedric Okou
Bank of Canada, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM)
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Downside variance risk premium,Realized volatility,Risk-neutral volatility,Skewness risk premium,upside variance risk premium

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Modeling Market Downside Volatility

Review of Finance (2013), 17(1), 443-481, doi: 10.1093/rof/rfr024
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 09 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2013
Bruno Feunou, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Roméo Tédongap
Bank of Canada, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and ESSEC Business School
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Binormal distribution, Downside risk, Intertemporal CAPM, GARCH, Relative downside volatility, Risk-return trade-off, Upside uncertainty.

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Predictability and Underreaction in Industry-Level Returns: Evidence from Commodity Markets

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2013
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Andrew Vivian and Mark E. Wohar
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Loughborough University and University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Asset pricing, Commodity markets, Equity markets, Industry-level returns, Information and market efficiency, Predictability, Underreaction

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Firm-Specific Risk-Neutral Distributions with Options and CDS

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Firm-Specific Risk-Neutral Distributions with Options and CDS

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 31 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 19 Dec 2020
Sirio Aramonte, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Samuel Rosen and John W. Schindler
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Temple University, Fox School of Business and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Risk Neutral Distributions, Investor Expectations, CDS Spreads

Firm-Specific Risk-Neutral Distributions: The Role of CDS Spreads

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1212
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Sirio Aramonte, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, John W. Schindler and Samuel Rosen
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Temple University, Fox School of Business
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Risk neutral distributions, CDS spreads, Cross-section of expected returns

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Ambiguity Aversion and Asset Prices in Production Economies

The Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 29 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 13 May 2014
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Hening Liu
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Ambiguity aversion, Equity premium, Markov switching, Production economy, Smooth ambiguity

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Which Parametric Model for Conditional Skewness?

European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 11 Dec 2013
Bruno Feunou, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Roméo Tédongap
Bank of Canada, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and ESSEC Business School
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Conditional skewness, Downside risk, Mincer-Zarnowitz regression, Realized skewness

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The Cost of a Revolution

Iran Nameh: A Quarterly Journal of Iranian Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2015
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Counterfactual analysis, Markov chain simulation, real per capita GDP, Iran, MENA region

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What is Certain About Uncertainty?

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1294
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 07 Aug 2020
Danilo Cascaldi-Garcia, Cisil Sarisoy, Juan M. Londono, John H. Rogers, Deepa Datta, Thiago R.T. Ferreira, Olesya V. Grishchenko, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Francesca Loria, Sai Ma, Marius Rodriguez and Ilknur Zer
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Why Has the Stock Market Risen so Much Since the Us Presidential Election?

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1235
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 04 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
Olivier Blanchard, Christopher G Collins, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Thomas Pellet and Beth Anne Wilson
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Dividends, Earnings, Equity returns, Equity premium, Gordon formula, Tax reform, U.S. presidential election

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SONOMA: A Small Open ecoNOmy for MAcrofinance

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 29 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2020
Mariano (Max) Massimiliano Croce, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Samuel Rosen
Finance Department, Bocconi University, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Temple University, Fox School of Business
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Small Open Economy, Credit Shocks, Asset Pricing

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Taxonomy of Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Volatility Measures

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1216
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 26 Nov 2017
Deepa Datta, Juan M. Londono, Bo Sun, Daniel O. Beltran, Thiago R.T. Ferreira, Matteo Iacoviello, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Canlin Li, Marius Rodriguez and John H. Rogers
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Risk, Uncertainty, Volatility, Monetary policy, Geopolitical risk, Equities, Interest rates, Exchange rates, Commodities, Inflation, Variance risk premium

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U.S. Industry-Level Returns and Oil Prices

International Review of Economics & Finance, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2012
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 21 Jun 2012
Qinbin Fan and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
University of Iowa and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Industry-Level Returns, Market Efficiency, Oil Prices, Return Predictability, Underreaction

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Does Smooth Ambiguity Matter for Asset Pricing?

The Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 21 Dec 2017 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2018
A. Ronald Gallant, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Hening Liu
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, Economics Group, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Ambiguity, Bayesian Estimation, Equity Premium, Markov-Switching, Long-Run Risk

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Institutions and Return Predictability in Oil-Exporting Countries

FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-014, http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.014
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 07 Apr 2015
Sirio Aramonte, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Justin Shugarman
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (FRB)
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Country studies, Quality of institutions, Return predictability

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Risk and Return in the Tehran Stock Exchange

The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Volume 53, Issue 3, August 2013, Pages 238-256, ISSN 1062-9769
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2013
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Hassan Mohammadi
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Illinois State University
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Asymmetry, Conditional correlation, Conditional skewness, Efficiency, Emerging and frontier markets, Granger causality, ICAPM, Markov switching, Volatility

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Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Sector Losses Across Structural Models

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Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Sector Losses Across Structural Models

BIS Working Paper No. 507
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 03 Aug 2015
Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello, Francisco Covas, John C. Driscoll, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Michael T. Kiley, Albert Queralto and Jae Sim
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Banks, DSGE Models, Capital Requirements, Bank Losses

Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Sector Losses Across Structural Models

FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-044, http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/FEDS.2015.044
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 10 Jul 2015
Luca Guerrieri, Matteo Iacoviello, Francisco Covas, John C. Driscoll, Michael T. Kiley, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Albert Queralto and Jae Sim
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Bank losses, Banks, Capital requirements, DSGE models

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Does Smooth Ambiguity Matter for Asset Pricing?

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1221
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 22 Jan 2018 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2020
A. Ronald Gallant, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Hening Liu
Pennsylvania State University, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Ambiguity, Bayesian estimation, equity premium, Markov-switching, long-run risk

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Risk-Return Trade-Off in the Pacific Basin Equity Markets

Emerging Markets Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 28 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2014
Ai-ru Meg Cheng and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
University of California, Santa Cruz - Department of Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Binormal distribution, Conditional variance, Conditional skewness, GARCH, Intertemporal CAPM, Mixed data sampling, Pacific basin equity markets, Risk-return trade-off

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Equity Returns and Business Cycles in Small Open Economies

Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, 45(6), 1117-1146. DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.12046
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2013
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Xuan Liu and Philip Rothman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, East Carolina University - Department of Economics and East Carolina University - Department of Economics
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Asset Pricing, Equity Returns, Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model, Real Business Cycle, Small Open Economy

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Measuring Ambiguity Aversion

FEDS Working Paper No. 2015-105
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Nov 2015
A. Ronald Gallant, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Hening Liu
Duke University, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Ambiguity aversion, Bayesian estimation, Equity premium puzzle, Markov switching

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The Impact of Financial Sanctions: The Case of Iran 2011–2016

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The Impact of Financial Sanctions: The Case of Iran 2011–2016

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 27 Jan 2020
Saeed Ghasseminejad and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
City University of NY, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Financial Sanctions; Capital Structure; Event Study; Political Connections; Iran; National Security

The Impact of Financial Sanctions: The Case of Iran 2011-2016

FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 1281
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Jun 2020
Saeed Ghasseminejad and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
City University of NY, Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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When Do Low-Frequency Measures Really Measure Transaction Costs?

FEDS Working Paper No. 2019-051
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 17 Jul 2019
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Filip Zikes
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Liquidity Risk, Transaction Costs, Volatility

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Optimizing Credit Gaps for Predicting Financial Crises: Modelling Choices and Tradeoffs

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Feb 2019 Last Revised: 22 Dec 2020
Daniel O. Beltran, Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar and Fiona A. Paine
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Credit, Credit Gap, Optimization, Predictive Power, Robustness, Trend-Cycle Decomposition

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Flood Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Zone

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Flood Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Zone

East Carolina University Economics Department Working Paper No. ecu0804
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Apr 2011
Craig E. Landry and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
UGA Ag & Applied Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Insurance coverage, flood, hazard, coastal, erosion, Tobit model

Flood Insurance Coverage in the Coastal Zone

Journal of Risk and Insurance, Vol. 78, Issue 2, pp. 361-388, 2011
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 20 May 2011
Craig E. Landry and Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar
UGA Ag & Applied Economics and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Global Economic Uncertainty and the U.S. Equity Returns

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 12 Jan 2021
Mohammad R. Jahan-Parvar, Yuriy Kitsul, Jamil A. Rahman and Beth Anne Wilson
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Economic policy uncertainty, Cross-section of returns, ICAPM, Return predictability, Global sources of risk.