Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5100455 | Journal of Financial Economics | 2017 | 78 Pages |
Abstract
We find that shocks to the equity capital ratio of financial intermediaries-Primary Dealer counterparties of the New York Federal Reserve-possess significant explanatory power for cross-sectional variation in expected returns. This is true not only for commonly studied equity and government bond market portfolios, but also for other more sophisticated asset classes such as corporate and sovereign bonds, derivatives, commodities, and currencies. Our intermediary capital risk factor is strongly procyclical, implying countercyclical intermediary leverage. The price of risk for intermediary capital shocks is consistently positive and of similar magnitude when estimated separately for individual asset classes, suggesting that financial intermediaries are marginal investors in many markets and hence key to understanding asset prices.
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Authors
Zhiguo He, Bryan Kelly, Asaf Manela,