Ricardo T. Fernholz

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Research

 

PUBLICATIONS

Racing to Zipf’s Law: Race and Metropolitan Population Size 1910-2020 [
PDF] (with Rory Kramer)

Journal of Regional Science, Forthcoming
Online Supplementary Material

Rising Inequality and Declining Mobility in the Forbes 400 [
PDF] (with Kara Hagler)

Economics Letters, September 2023, 230, 111235
Forbes 400 Intergenerational Data Set

Heterogeneous Dynasties and Long-Run Mobility [
PDF] (with Alberto Bisin and Jess Benhabib)

Economic Journal, April 2022, 132(643), p. 906-925
Presentation Slides
Stone Centre Summary

Permutation-Weighted Portfolios and the Efficiency of Commodity Futures Markets [
PDF] (with Robert Fernholz)

Annals of Finance, March 2022, 18(1), p. 81-108
Presentation Slides

The Rise of Big U.S. Banks and the Fall of Big European Banks: A Statistical Decomposition [
PDF] (with Christoffer Koch)

European Economic Review, June 2021, 135, 103723
Presentation Slides

Zipf’s Law for Atlas Models [
PDF] (with Robert Fernholz)

Journal of Applied Probability, December 2020, 57(4), p. 1276-1297
Presentation Slides
Related Working Paper

Nonparametric Methods and Local-Time-Based Estimation for Dynamic Power Law Distributions [
PDF]

Journal of Applied Econometrics, November/December 2017, 32(7), p. 1244-1260
Presentation Slides 

Bank Asset Concentration Not Necessarily a Cause for Worry [
PDF] (with Christoffer Koch)

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Economic Letter, June 2017, 12(7), p. 1-4

Pulling up the Tarnished Anchor: The End of Silver as a Unit of Account [
PDF] (with Kris Mitchener and Marc Weidenmier)

Journal of International Money and Finance, June 2017, 74, p. 209-228
VoxEu Column

Big Banks, Idiosyncratic Volatility, and Systemic Risk [
PDF] (with Christoffer Koch)

American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings, May 2017, 107(5), p. 603-607
Wall Street Journal Coverage

The Distributional Effects of Progressive Capital Taxes [
PDF]

Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2017, 15(2), p. 99-112
Related Working Paper (Presentation Slides for working paper) (Econbrowser Summary for working paper)


A Model of Economic Mobility and the Distribution of Wealth [
PDF]

Journal of Macroeconomics, December 2016, 50, p. 168-192
Presentation Slides

Exchange Rate Manipulation and Constructive Ambiguity [
PDF]

International Economic Review, November 2015, 56(4), p. 1323-1348
Presentation Slides
Supplemental Materials

Instability and Concentration in the Distribution of Wealth [
PDF] (with Robert Fernholz)

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, July 2014, 44, p. 251-269
Presentation Slides
VoxEu Column
Baseline Scenario Discussion

Terrorism and the Invisible Hook [
PDF] (with S. Brock Blomberg and John-Clark Levin)

Southern Economic Journal, April 2013, 79(4), p. 849-863

 

WORKING PAPERS

Portfolios Generated by Contingent Claim Functions, with Applications to Option Pricing [
PDF] (with Robert Fernholz)

Finance and Stochastics, Revise and Resubmit

 

 

Updated February 2024