Lorenzo Bretscher
Swiss Finance Institute Junior Chair
HEC Lausanne & CEPR
Extranef 233
1015, Lausanne
Switzerland
Email: lorenzo.bretscher@unil.ch
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