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Country and Industry Dynamics in Stock Returns

Catão, Luis A. V.; Timmermann, Allan G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

An important question in international finance is to what extent stock return volatility is influenced by country location, industry affiliation, and global factors. This Paper develops a new methodology to measure these effects, in which portfolios mimicking ‘pure’ country and industry...

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The Euro and International Capital Markets

Detken, Carsten; Hartmann, Philipp - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

international portfolio investments, such as relative market liquidity and relative risk characteristics of assets, are also …

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Which Investors Fear Expropriation? Evidence from Investors' Stock Picking

Giannetti, Mariassunta; Simonov, Andrei - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Using a data-set that provides unprecedented details on individual investors’ stockholdings, we analyse whether investors take into account corporate governance when they select stocks. After controlling for the supply effect via free float and other firm characteristics, we find that all...

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Risk Taking and Optimal Contracts for Money Managers

Palomino, Frédéric; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Recent empirical work suggests a strong connection between the incentives money managers are offered and their risk … riskiness of the portfolio. This represents a departure from the existing literature on agency theory in that moral hazard is … not only effort exertion but also risk taking behavior. The moral hazard problem with risk taking involves an incentive …

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Are Stocks Really Less Volatile in the Long Run?

Pástor, Luboš; Stambaugh, Robert F. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Conventional wisdom views stocks as less volatile over long horizons than over short horizons due to mean reversion induced by return predictability. In contrast, we find stocks are substantially more volatile over long horizons from an investor's perspective. This perspective recognizes that...

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Capital Flows, Push versus Pull Factors and the Global Financial Crisis

Fratzscher, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on … risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that common …

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Bailout Uncertainty in a Microfounded General Equilibrium Model of the Financial System

Cukierman, Alex; Izhakian, Yehuda - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …

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Learning by Doing and Multiproduction Effects Over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Semiconductor Industry

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

In this study we derive a structural econometric model of learning by doing with multiproduct competition from a dynamic oligopoly game. We show the importance to account for multiproduction effects through product differentiation when measuring learning by doing. Using quarterly firm-level data...

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Choosing the variables to estimate singular DSGE models

Canova, Fabio; Ferroni, Filippo; Matthes, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We propose two methods to choose the variables to be used in the estimation of the structural parameters of a singular DSGE model. The first selects the vector of observables that optimizes parameter identification; the second the vector that minimizes the informational discrepancy between the...

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Inference Based on SVAR Identified with Sign and Zero Restrictions: Theory and Applications

Arias, Jonas E.; Rubio-Ramírez, Juan Francisco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

respect the agnosticism of the theory. These algorithms impose additional sign restrictions on variables that are seemingly … that does not introduce any additional sign restriction, hence preserving the agnosticism of the theory. Without the …

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