Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO007.
I use empirical methods to forecast U.S. repeat-sales house price indices, to analyze Swiss long-run default rates and to investigate the role of country and industry effects on the downside risk of stock index returns.
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In: Zeitschrift für die gesamte Versicherungswissenschaft, 2015, vol. 104, no. 5, p. 573-593
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In: International Review of Economics, 2015, vol. 62, no. 1, p. 1-21
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In: The European Physical Journal B, 2015, vol. 88, no. 7, p. 1-14
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In: Mathematics and Financial Economics, 2015, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 3-27
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO004.
My dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which focuses on how institutional investors trade, impact price efficiency in secondary financial markets and influence the allocation of resources in the real economy. Using a novel approach based on hurricanes, the first chapter, Mutual Funds’ Fire Sales and the Real Economy: Evidence from Hurricanes, contributes to the recent debate on...
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In: Review of Keynesian Economics, 2019, vol. 7, no. 2, p. 220-232
This paper argues that the negative interest rate adopted by the Swiss National Bank in 2015 has elicited a series of negative consequences across the Swiss economy. It has led an increasing number of agents to invest their savings in the real-estate market, whose prices have overheated, threatening the eruption of a housing crisis. It has also induced a number of financial institutions to turn...
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In: Bulletin of Political Economy, 2020, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 203-217
Financial stability has been a largely-debated issue since the bursting of the global financial crisis in 2008. Central banks seem to have discovered that price stability on the market for produced goods and services is not enough to avoid financial instability through monetary policy interventions. This paper explains that, in fact, both pre- and postcrisis interventions by monetary...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ECO002.
I use empirical methods to study the effect of institutional investors on financial markets. My studies provide novel evidence on the commonality in liquidity of fixed-income securities, the liquidity provision of hedge funds and mutual funds in equity markets, and the information diffusion from credit default swaps to equities.
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(Working Papers SES ; 523)
The housing wealth-to-income ratio has been increasing in most developed economies since the 1950s. We provide a novel theory to explain this long-term pattern. We show analytically that house prices grow in the steady state if i) the housing sector is more land-intensive than the non-housing sector, or ii) technological progress in the construction sector is weaker than in the non-housing...
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