Bernard Dumas

INSEAD

The Rothschild Chaired Professor of Finance / Professor of Finance

Boulevard de Constance

F-77305 Fontainebleau Cedex

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http://www.insead.fr/~dumas/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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Cambridge, MA 02138

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Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?

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What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 06-19, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Mar 2006
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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Dynamic portfolio choice, excess volatility, general equilibrium

Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 07-37
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 11 Dec 2007
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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Bayesian behavior, financial-market equilibrium, excess volatility, risk premia

Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility

NBER Working Paper No. w13401
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 14 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2022
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?

NBER Working Paper No. w11803
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 22 Jan 2006 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5367
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 13 Feb 2006
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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Behavioural equilibrium theory, non-Bayesian behaviour, portfolio choice

Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6455
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 30 May 2008
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, London Business School and EDHEC Business School
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Bayesian behaviour, excess volatility, financial-market equilibrium, risk premia

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The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial-Market Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis

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The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial-Market Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/29/FIN
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 25 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 05 May 2016
Adrian Buss, Bernard Dumas, Raman Uppal and Grigory Vilkov
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, INSEAD, EDHEC Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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Tobin tax, borrowing constraints, short-sale constraints, stock market volatility, incomplete markets, differences of opinion

The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial-Market Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis

SAFE Working Paper No. 124
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 17 Nov 2016
Adrian Buss, Bernard Dumas, Raman Uppal and Grigory Vilkov
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, INSEAD, EDHEC Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
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Tobin tax, borrowing constraints, short-sale constraints, stock market volatility, incomplete markets, differences of opinion

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Implied Volatility Functions: Empirical Tests

NBER Working Paper No. w5500
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 01 Jul 1998 Last Revised: 06 Apr 2022
Bernard Dumas, Jeff Fleming and Robert E. Whaley
INSEAD, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance
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Differences of Opinion and International Equity Markets

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Differences of Opinion and International Equity Markets

Review of Financial Studies 30(3): 750–800, 2017, AFA 2011 Denver Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 13 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 17 Apr 2017
Bernard Dumas, Karen K. Lewis and Emilio Osambela
INSEAD, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Heterogeneous beliefs, capital flows, home-equity preference, cross-listing, international CAPM, international finance

Differences of Opinion and International Equity Markets

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2016/24/FIN
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2016
Bernard Dumas, Karen K. Lewis and Emilio Osambela
INSEAD, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Differences of Opinion and International Equity Markets

NBER Working Paper No. w16726
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 01 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas, Karen K. Lewis and Emilio Osambela
INSEAD, University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
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Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

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Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 08-49
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jan 2009
Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff
INSEAD and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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incomplete market, financial-market equilibrium, computation, recursive methods

Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

INSEAD Working Paper No. 2011/76/FIN
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 01 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2012
Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff
INSEAD and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

NBER Working Paper No. w14629
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2021
Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff
INSEAD and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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Incomplete-Market Equilibria Solved Recursively on an Event Tree

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7138
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Feb 2009
Bernard Dumas and Andrew Lyasoff
INSEAD and Boston University - Questrom School of Business
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computation, financial-market equilibrium, incomplete market, recursive methods

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A Central-Planning Approach to Dynamic Incomplete-Market Equilibrium

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Dec 2002
Bernard Dumas and Pascal J. Maenhout
INSEAD and INSEAD - Finance
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Cross-Border Valuation: The International Cost of Equity Capital

NBER Working Paper No. w10115
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 05 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2021
Gordon M. Bodnar, Bernard Dumas and Richard C. Marston
Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), INSEAD and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Let Us Trade Pension Claims

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 27 Oct 2005
Bernard Dumas and Juerg M. Syz
INSEAD and Diener Syz Real Estate
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Defined Benefit Plans, Underfunding, Collateralized Pension Claim Obligation, Diversification, Benchmark

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Rothschild Bank AG

Teaching Note, 2005, INSEAD Case Study No. 06/2005-5265
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 21 Dec 2011 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2012
Bernard Dumas and Robert Kosowski
INSEAD and Imperial College Business School
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Private banking, Asset management; Behavioural finance and asset allocation, Mutual and hedge funds allocation, Family offices, Trust services, Offshore banking, Switzerland, Private banking, CHF10 billion assets under management

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Are Correlations of Stock Returns Justified by Subsequent Changes in National Outputs?

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 28 Apr 2005
Bernard Dumas, Campbell R. Harvey and Pierre Ruiz
INSEAD, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Industry correlations, market integration, market segmentation, stock correlation, output correlation

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The World Price of Foreign Exchange Risk

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The World Price of Foreign Exchange Risk

NBER Working Paper No. w4459
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jun 2001 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas and Bruno Solnik
INSEAD and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance
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The World Price of Foreign Exchange Risk

Posted: 03 May 2000
Bernard Dumas and Bruno Solnik
INSEAD and Hong Kong University of Science & Technology (HKUST) - Department of Finance

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The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

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The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2017
Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and INSEAD
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trading fees, slow-moving capital, general equilibrium, endogenous illiquidity

The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

NBER Working Paper No. w21421
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 03 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2022
Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and INSEAD
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Partial- vs. General-Equilibrium Models of the International Capital Market

NBER Working Paper No. w4446
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 10 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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A Test of the International CAPM Using Business Cycles Indicators as Instrumental Variables

NBER Working Paper No. w4657
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Dec 2000 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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Hysteresis Bands, Holding Period and Transaction Costs

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 30 Jun 2012
Bernard Dumas, Giovanni Walter Puopolo and Francisco Delgado
INSEAD, University of Naples Federico II - Department of Economic and Statistical Sciences and UBS AG - Warburg
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Efficient Intertemporal Allocations with Recursive Utility

NBER Working Paper No. t0231
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 26 Aug 2000 Last Revised: 20 Apr 2022
Bernard Dumas, Tan Wang and Raman Uppal
INSEAD, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Division of Finance and EDHEC Business School
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Super Contact and Related Optimality Conditions: A Supplement to Avinashdixits:"A Simplified Exposition of Some Results Concerning Regulated Brownian

NBER Working Paper No. t0077
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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Currency Option Pricing in Credible Target Zones

NBER Working Paper No. w4522
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Nov 2001 Last Revised: 12 May 2022
Bernard Dumas, L. Peter Jennergren and Bertil Näslund
INSEAD, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance
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Two-Person Dynamic Equilibrium: Trading in the Capital Market

NBER Working Paper No. w2016
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 14 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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Global Diversification, Growth and Welfare with Imperfectly Integrated Markets for Goods

NBER Working Paper No. w6994
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Apr 1999 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2022
Bernard Dumas and Raman Uppal
INSEAD and EDHEC Business School
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How Long Do Unilateral Target Zones Last?

NBER Working Paper No. w3931
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 15 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas and Lars E. O. Svensson
INSEAD and Stockholm School of Economics
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Pricing Physical Assets Internationally

NBER Working Paper No. w2569
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 10 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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Perishable Investment and Hysteresis in Capital Formation

NBER Working Paper No. w2930
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 03 Jan 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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Target Zones Big and Small

NBER Working Paper No. w3601
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 04 Jul 2004 Last Revised: 07 May 2022
Francisco A. Delgado and Bernard Dumas
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and INSEAD
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The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

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The Dynamic Properties of Financial-Market Equilibrium with Trading Fees

NBER Working Paper No. w19155
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 21 Jun 2013 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2013
Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and INSEAD
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Financial-Market Equilibrium with Friction

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9524
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 02 Jul 2013
Adrian Buss and Bernard Dumas
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and INSEAD
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Realignment Risk and Currency Option Pricing in Target Zones

NBER Working Paper No. w4458
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 11 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas, L. Peter Jennergren and Bertil Näslund
INSEAD, Stockholm School of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Finance
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Monetary Contracting between Central Banks and the Design of Sustainableexchange-Rate Zones

NBER Working Paper No. w3440
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2022
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD
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The Debt Capacity of a Government

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The Debt Capacity of a Government

NBER Working Paper No. w29434
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 01 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas, Paul Ehling and Chunyu Yang
INSEAD, BI - Norwegian Business School and BI Norwegian Business School
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The Debt Capacity of a Government

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16687
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Nov 2021
Bernard Dumas, Paul Ehling and Chunyu Yang
INSEAD, BI - Norwegian Business School and BI Norwegian Business School
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Asset Market Bubbles, debt capacity, Fiscal policy, Social security sustainability

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Firms' Exposures to Geographic Risks

NBER Working Paper No. w28185
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2022
Bernard Dumas, Tymur Gabuniya and Richard C. Marston
INSEAD, Birkbeck, University of London and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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A Theory of the Nominal Character of Stock Securities

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A Theory of the Nominal Character of Stock Securities

NBER Working Paper No. w28186
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Bernard Dumas and Marcel Savioz
INSEAD and Swiss National Bank
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A Theory of the Nominal Character of Stock Securities

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15507
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Dec 2020
Bernard Dumas and Marcel René Savioz
INSEAD and Swiss National Bank
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Firms' Exposures to Geographic Risks

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15503
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 23 Dec 2020 Last Revised: 14 May 2021
Bernard Dumas, Tymur Gabuniya and Richard C. Marston
INSEAD, Birkbeck, University of London and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department
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Perspectives: Why Not Trade Pension Claims?

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 63, No. 1, pp. 46-54, January/February 2007
Posted: 02 Feb 2007
Bernard Dumas and Juerg M. Syz
INSEAD and Diener Syz Real Estate

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Financial Markets, Market Structure and Organizations, Investment Industry, Future Directions, Sources of Change, Portfolio Management, Asset/Liability Management

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Pass-Through and Exposure

Journal of Finance, Vol. 57, pp. 199-231, 2002
Posted: 18 Nov 2002
Gordon M. Bodnar, Bernard Dumas and Richard C. Marston
Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), INSEAD and University of Pennsylvania - Finance Department

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Short- and Long-Term Hedging for the Corporation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 1083
Posted: 14 Sep 1999
Bernard Dumas
INSEAD

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How Far Apart Can Two Riskless Interest Rates Be? (One Moves, the Other One Does Not)

Working Paper No. 18-94
Posted: 20 Dec 1998
Francisco A. Delgado and Bernard Dumas
University of Colorado at Boulder - Leeds School of Business and INSEAD

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Implied Volatility Smiles: Empirical Tests

Posted: 10 Oct 1998
Bernard Dumas, Jeff Fleming and Robert E. Whaley
INSEAD, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Finance

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