Northwestern University

 

 

Deborah Lucas

John L. and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL  60201 USA

Kellogg Biography

 

 

Current Working Papers:

 

·         Capital Structure, Hurdle Rates, and Portfolio Choice – Interactions in an Entrepreneurial Firm 

Joint with John Heaton

 

·        Investing Public Pensions in the Stock Market: Implications for Risk Sharing and Asset Prices

 Joint with John Heaton. [PDF file for current version]

 

·        Heterogeneity and Portfolio Choice: Theory and Evidence

Joint with Stephanie Curcuru, John Heaton and Damien Moore [PDF file for current version]

 

 

Published Research Papers:

 

·        Modeling the Effects of Fiscal Policy Imbalances – How Much Does Myopia Matter?

 2003 Review of Economic Dynamics.

 

·        Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice: The Role of Entrepreneurial Risk

Journal of Finance, 2000 with John Heaton

 

·        Stock Prices and Fundamentals

NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 2000 with John Heaton

 

·        Price and Interest Rate Dynamics Induced by Multiperiod Contracts

 North  American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2000

 

·        Portfolio Choice in the Presence of Background Risk

 Economic Journal, 2000 with John Heaton

 

·        Market Frictions, Savings Behavior, and Portfolio Choice

           Macroeconomic Dynamics, 1997 with John Heaton

 

·         External Financing and Insurance Cycles

NBER Conference Volume on Property Casualty Insurance, 1997 with Anne Gron

[Full Text]

 

·         Evaluating the Effects of Incomplete Markets on Risk Sharing and Asset Pricing

Journal of Political Economy 1996 with John Heaton    

            [Full Text]

 

·         Managed Competition with Prefunding--The Solution for Long-term Care?

                The Milbank Quarterly, November 1996

 

·         The Importance of Investor Heterogeneity and Financial Market Imperfections for the Behavior of Asset Prices

Carnegie Rochester Papers, 1995 with John Heaton

           

·        Asset Pricing with Undiversifiable Income Risk and Short Sales Constraints:  Deepening the Equity Premium Puzzle

Journal of Monetary Economics, December 1994

 

·        The Effects of Incomplete Insurance Markets and Trading Costs in a Consumption-Based Asset Pricing Model

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 1992 with John Heaton

 

·        Equity Issues with Time-Varying Asymmetric Information

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1992 with Robert Korajczyk and Robert McDonald

[Full Text]

 

·        Bank Financing and Investment Decisions with Asymmetric Information about Loan Quality

Rand Journal, Spring 1992 with Robert McDonald

[Full Text]

 

·        The Effect of Information Releases on the Pricing and Timing of Equity Issues

Review of Financial Studies, vol. 4, #4, 1991 with Robert Korajczyk and Robert McDonald

[Full Text]

 

·        The Variability of Velocity in Cash-in-Advance Models

Journal of Political Economy, April 1991 with Narayana Kocherlakota and Robert Hodrick

[Full Text]

 

·        Equity Issues and Stock Price Dynamics

Journal of Finance, Vol. 45, No. 4, 1990 with Robert McDonald

[Full Text]

 

·        Understanding the Behavior of Stock Prices Around the Time of an Equity Issue

in Glenn Hubbard, ed., Information, Capital Markets, and Investment, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL., 1990 with Robert Korajczyk and Robert McDonald

 

·        Bank Portfolio Choice with Private Information About Loan Quality:  Theory and Implications for Regulation

Journal of Banking and Finance 11, 473-497, 1987 with Robert McDonald

[Full Text]

 

 

Other Publications:

 

·        Estimating the Value of Subsidies for Federal Loans and Loan Guarantees

 Congressional Budget Office, 2004

[Full Text]

·        Evaluating and Accounting for Federal Investment in Corporate Stocks and Other Private Securities

Congressional Budget Office, 2003
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·         Lessons from Market Efficiency

Aspatore C-Level Business Intelligence, 2003

 

·        Federal Subsidies and the Housing GSEs, 2001

[Full Text]

 

·         Investing Public Pensions in the Stock Market:  Implications for risk Sharing, Capital Formation and Public Policy

 in the Developed and Developing World, Sasin Journal of Management, 2001

 

·         Comment on ‘The Social Security Trust Fund, the Riskless Interest Rate, and Capital Accumulation’ by Andrew B. Abel

 Risk Aspects of Investment Based Social Security Reform, NBER, 2000

 

·         Comment on 'The Case for Indexed Government Debt' by John Campbell and Robert Shiller

 1996 NBER Macroeconomics Annual

 

·         Comment on ‘A "Barter’’ Theory of Bank Regulation and Credit Allocation’

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1995

[Full Text]

 

·         Comment on 'Financial Intermediation and Monetary Policy in a General Equilibrium Banking Model'

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 1995

                [Full Text]

 

·        The Economic Report of the President, 1993 (with  numerous coauthors)

 

·         Asset Pricing with Incomplete Markets, A Survey

Cuadernos Economicos de ICE, vol. 50, 1992

 

·         Foundations of the Cash-in-Advance Model

 A review essay of Finance Constraints and the Theory of Money by S. C. Tsiang,

Journal of Monetary Economics, vol. 27 no. 3, June 1991

 

 

 

 

Work in Progress:

 

·        Who Holds the Toxic Waste?  An Investigation of MBS Holdings

Joint with Joseph Haubrich

 

·        Accounting for Risk in the Federal Budget

Joint with Marvin Phaup

 

 

 

 

 

 

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