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Annette Vissing-Jorgensen

 

Professor, Finance Department

Contact Information:
Finance Department

Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University

2001 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208-2001
Email: a-vissing@northwestern.edu

Phone: 847 467 6171

Fax: 847 491 5719

Areas of Interest: Household consumption and portfolio choice, stock market participation, returns to entrepreneurial investment, corporate governance

CV:   PDF 

 

Published/forthcoming:

 

1.      Limited Asset Market Participation and the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution, Journal of Political Economy, August 2002. (Earlier longer more ambitious version, December 1999, "Limited Stock Market Participation and the Equity Premium Puzzle")

2.      Stock Market Participation, Intertemporal Substitution and Risk Aversion joint with Orazio P. Attanasio, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2003.

3.      Perspectives on Behavioral Finance: Does "Irrationality" Disappear with Wealth? Evidence from Expectations and Actions, NBER Macroeconomics Annual 2003. Discussions by John Campbell and Owen Lamont.

4.      The Returns to Entrepreneurial Investment: A Private Equity Premium Puzzle? joint with Tobias Moskowitz. American Economic Review, September 2002 (supported by NSF grant 0111795).

      Financial Times: Risks are high and rewards may be a long time coming - 4/26/2003

      Financial Times: Mastering Investment - 7/9/2001

      Financial Times: Lex - Private Equity - 3/12/2001

 

5.      Testing Agency Theory With Entrepreneur Effort and Wealth  joint with Marianne Bitler and Tobias Moskowitz, Journal of Finance, April 2005, lead article.

Winner, Journal of Finance Brattle Prize (Distinguished Paper) for 2005.

6.      Mandated Disclosure, Stock Returns, and the 1964 Securities Acts Amendments, joint with Michael Greenstone and Paul Oyer. Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2006.

            U.S. News & World Report: Regulation for Fun and Profit - 8/20/2006

            HR Magazine: Federal Disclosure Requirements Add Shareholder Value - 9/1/2006

            Business Wire: Disclosure Adds Shareholder Value: Lessons from Sarbanes-Oxley's Predecessor - 7/17/2006

 

7.      The Value of Knowing, joint with Michael Greenstone and Paul Oyer – this is a shorter version of the above paper, Regulation, Summer 2006. Includes discussion by Edmund Kitch.

8.      Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk and Asset Returns, with Christopher Malloy and Tobias Moskowitz. Journal of Finance, December 2009, lead article. Consumption growth data for all households (from NIPA), and for stockholders, top stockholders and non-stockholders (from the CEX), stata format (see paper for definitions).

      Nominated for Journal of Finance Smith-Breeden Prize for 2010.

9.      A Lobbying Approach to Evaluating The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, with Yael Hochberg and Paola Sapienza. Journal of Accounting Research, May 2009. Discussion by G. Andrew Karolyi

10.   Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How?, joint with Jonathan A. Parker. American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, May 2009. Unpublished appendix.

      Washington Post: Waiting for Deep Pockets to Open - 9/9/2009

      New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall -  8/21/2009New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall - 8/21/2009New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall - 8/21/2009New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall - 8/21/2009New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall - 8/21/2009 New York Times: Rise of the Super-Rich Hits a Sobering Wall - 8/21/2009

      Newsweek: How the Mighty have Fallen (article in pdf) - July 2009

      NBER Digest: Who Bears Aggregate Fluctuations and How? - April 2009

      Financial Times: Some recession experiences are more equal than others - 2/21/2009

      Greg Mankiw's Blog: Who bears the burden of downturns? - 2/12/2009

      New York Times: Recession Can Change a Way of Life - 2/1/2009

 

11.   The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2010.

      Wall Street Journal: It's Getting Riskier to be Rich - 9/16/2010

      The Economist: The poor rich - 9/20/2010

 

12.   The Effects of Quantitative Easing on Interest Rates: Channels and Implications for Policy, with Arvind Krishnamurthy, forthcoming, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2011.

13.   Discussion from the NBER Macroeconomics Annual 1999 of the paper "Stock Prices and Fundamentals" by John Heaton and Deborah Lucas.

 

Working papers and talks:

14.   The Aggregate Demand for Treasury Debt, with Arvind Krishnamurthy, January 2012, resubmitted twice to Journal of Political Economy

            NBER Digest: Treasury Debt and Corporate Bond Rates - August 2007

            Forbes: Boom Times - 3/12/2007

Recent Media Coverage

Financial Times:
Some recession experiences are more equal than others - 2/21/2009

Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Who bears the burden of downturns? - 2/12/2009

The New York Times:
Recession Can Change a Way of Life - 1/31/2009

Forbes:
Boom Times - 3/12/2007Recent Media Coverage

Financial Times:
Some recession experiences are more equal than others - 2/21/2009

Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Who bears the burden of downturns? - 2/12/2009

The New York Times:
Recession Can Change a Way of Life - 1/31/2009

Forbes:
Boom Times - 3/12/2007Recent Media Coverage

Financial Times:
Some recession experiences are more equal than others - 2/21/2009

Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Who bears the burden of downturns? - 2/12/2009

The New York Times:
Recession Can Change a Way of Life - 1/31/2009

Forbes:
Boom Times - 3/12/2007

15.   Consumer Credit: Learning Your Customer's Default Risk from What (S)he Buys, working paper, April 2011. Being revised for first submission.

16.   Informational Hold-Up and Performance Persistence in Venture Capital, with Yael Hochberg and Alexander Ljungqvist, July 2010, revise and resubmit, Review of Financial Studies

Winner, Argentum Prize for Best Symposium Paper on Private Equity and Funds of Private Equity, European Finance Association 2009.

17.   The Impact of Labor Income Risk  on Educational Choices:  Estimates and Implied Risk Aversion, with Helena Skyt Nielsen, first draft, January 2006.

18.   Towards an Explanation of Household Portfolio Choice Heterogeneity: Nonfinancial Income and Participation Cost Structures, NBER Working Paper, 2002 (The main parts of this paper are included in the NBER Macroeconomics Annual paper above.)

 

·        Slides from Gerzensee Focus Session: Household Finance: The Liability Side

 

Fun:

 

Recent Media Coverage

Financial Times:
Some recession experiences are more equal than others - 2/21/2009

Greg Mankiw's Blog:
Who bears the burden of downturns? - 2/12/2009

The New York Times:
Recession Can Change a Way of Life - 1/31/2009

Forbes:
Boom Times - 3/12/2007