Yu An

Yu An

Institution

Johns Hopkins University

PhD Year

2019

Email

yua@jhu.edu

FTG Membership

Member

Website

https://sites.google.com/view/yu-an

Featured Work

Apr 30, 2023

Yu An | Working Paper No. 00099-00

Flow-Based Arbitrage Pricing Theory

I introduce a new approach, model, and definition for analyzing demand effects in asset pricing. My approach generalizes arbitrage pricing, and avoids making any parametric assumptions on utility function and payoff distribution, which are commonly found in equilibrium literature. My approach also reveals and relaxes an unrealistic cross-sectional restriction on price impacts in the literature's quadratic-normal setup. In my model, price impacts between underlying assets...