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Information Quality and Long‐Run Risk: Asset Pricing Implications
Published: 7/15/2010, Volume: 65, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01572.x | Cited by: 141
HENGJIE AI
I study the asset pricing implications of the quality of public information about persistent productivity shocks in a general equilibrium model with Kreps–Porteus preferences. Low information quality is associated with a high equity premium, a low volatility of consumption growth, and a low volatility of the risk‐free interest rate. The relationship between information quality and the equity premium differs from that in endowment economies. My calibration improves substantially upon the Bansal–Yaron model in terms of the moments of the wealth–consumption ratio and the return on aggregate wealth.
A Unified Model of Firm Dynamics with Limited Commitment and Assortative Matching
Published: 10/19/2020, Volume: 76, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12980 | Cited by: 19
HENGJIE AI, DANA KIKU, RUI LI, JINCHENG TONG
We develop a unified theory of dynamic contracting and assortative matching to explain firm dynamics. In our model, neither firms nor managers can commit to arrangements that yield lower payoffs than their outside options, which are microfounded by the equilibrium conditions in a matching market. The model endogenously generates power laws in firm size and CEO compensation, and explains differences in their right tails. We also show that our model quantitatively accounts for many salient features of the time‐series dynamics and the cross‐sectional distribution of firm investment, dividend payout, and CEO compensation.
The Rising Tide Lifts Some Interest Rates: Climate Change, Natural Disasters, and Loan Pricing
Published: 7/28/2026, Volume: , Issue: | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.70066 | Cited by: 1
RICARDO CORREA, AI HE, CHRISTOPH HERPFER, UGUR LEL
Banks adjust loan spreads after observing natural disasters linked to climate change. We isolate this updating process by identifying loans to borrowers at risk of, but not directly affected by, such disasters. Loan spreads for these borrowers spike in both primary and secondary markets, while no such updating occurs for non–climate‐related disasters. Evidence suggests a heightened perceived credit risk, which nonetheless cannot fully explain the increase in rates. Taken altogether, increased spreads are explained primarily by salience bias, as they are short‐lived and amplified by media attention. This salience impacts financial decisions at bank‐dependent firms.