At the heart of the intellectual revolution in macrofinance, which began in the wake of the global financial crisis, is risk appetite. The risk appetite of market-based intermediaries is the tidal force that drives systematic fluctuations in asset prices. It is the main state variable in intermediary asset pricing, meaning that it is controls whether th…
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