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Why Does Bad News Increase Volatility and Decrease Leverage?

Author/Editor: Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos.

Release Date:September, 2010

The literature on leverage until now shows how an increase in volatility reduces leverage. However, in order to explain pro-cyclical leverage it assumes that bad news increases volatility. This paper more...



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Persistent Gaps, Volatility Types, and Default Traps

Author/Editor: Ana Fostel, Sandeep Kapur, Luis Catão.

Release Date:June, 2007

We show that cross-country differences in the underlying volatility and persistence of macroeconomic shocks help explain two historical regularities in sovereign borrowing: the existence of vicious more...



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