FRIC/Finance Seminar with Ken Singleton, Stanford Graduate School of Business

On Friday, November 5, Ken Singleton, Stanford Graduate School of Business, will be giving a virtual seminar on the paper: Presidential Address: How Much “Rationality” Is There in Bond-Market Risk Premiums?

Friday, November 5, 2021 - 15:00 to 16:00

The Department of Finance and FRIC, Center for Financial Frictions, are proud to announce the upcoming seminar with Ken Singleton, Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Ken Singleton will present:

Presidential Address: How Much “Rationality” Is There in Bond-Market Risk Premiums?

ABSTRACT:
Beliefs of professional forecasters are benchmarked against those of a Bayesian econometrician BE who is learning about the unknown dynamics of the bond risk factors. Consistent with rational Bayesian learning, the forecast errors of individual professionals and BE are comparably predictable over the business cycle. The secular and cyclical patterns of professionals’ forecasts relative to those of BE are explored in depth. Inconsistent with many models with belief dispersion, the relationship between professionals’ yield disagreement and their matched disagreements about macroeconomic fundamentals is very weak.

Location and sign up:
This is an online seminar.
Please contact us in order to sign up.

The page was last edited by: Department of Finance // 01/25/2024