Lorenzo Bretscher

Swiss Finance Institute Junior Chair

HEC Lausanne & CEPR

Extranef 233

1015, Lausanne

Switzerland

Email: lorenzo.bretscher@unil.ch


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Published & Forthcoming Papers

Human Capital and International Portfolio Diversification: A Reappraisal, Journal of International Economics, 77(1), March 2016, 78-96 

with Christian Julliard and Carlo Rosa


Interest Rate Risk Management in Uncertain Times, Review of Financial Studies, 31(8), August 2018, 3019-3060

with Lukas Schmid and Andrea Vedolin


Implementing Stochastic Volatility in DSGE Models: A Comment, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 24(4), June 2020, 935-950

with Alex Hsu and Andrea Tamoni


Fiscal Policy Driven Bond Risk Premia, Journal of Financial Economics, 138(1), October 2020, 53-73

with Alex Hsu and Andrea Tamoni


COVID-19 and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns: Impact and Transmission, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Volume 10, Issue 4, December 2020, 705-741 (special issue on Covid-19)

with Alex Hsu, Peter Simasek and Andrea Tamoni


Expectations and Aggregate Risk, Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 123, October 2021, 91-108 

with Aytek Malkhozov and Andrea Tamoni


The Real Response to Uncertainty Shocks: the Risk Premium Channel, Management Science, January 2023, 69(1), 119-140

with Alex Hsu and Andrea Tamoni


From Local to Global: Offshoring and Asset Prices, Management Science, March 2023, 69(3), 1420-1448

Winner of the Nasdaq/EFA Doctoral Tutorial Best Paper Award, EFA 44th Annual Meeting Mannheim

Winner of the Unicredit & Universities Foundation Best Paper Award, Young Economists Conference Belgrade


Return Predictability with Endogenous Growth, Journal of Financial Economics, December 2023, 150(3), 1-20

with Federico M. Bandi and Andrea Tamoni


Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming

with Lukas Schmid, Ishita Sen, and Varun Sharma



Working Papers

Marking to Market Corporate Debt | July 2022

with Peter Feldhütter, Andrew Kane, and Lukas Schmid

Winner of the Jacob Gold & Associates Best Paper Award, ASU Sonoran Winter Finance Conference 2021


Return Heterogeneity in Retirement Accounts | October 2024

with Francisco Gomes, Riccardo Sabbatucci, and Andrea Tamoni


State Fiscal Policy and Municipal Credit Risk Premia | July 2022

with Howard Kung and Ashish Sahay


Investor Betas | October 2024

with Ryan Lewis and Shrihari Santosh


Ricardian Business Cycles | November 2022

with Jesús Fernández-Villaverde and Simon Scheidegger


Passive Demand and Active Supply: Evidence from Maturity-mandated Corporate Bond Funds | October 2024

with Lukas Schmid and Tiange Ye

Winner of the XiYue Best Paper Award, CICF 2024


Distorted Beliefs and Asset Prices | October 2024

with Aytek Malkhozov, Andrea Tamoni, and Haoxi Yang


Corporate Debt Structure Around the World | November 2024

with Alireza Aghaee and Stefano Rossi