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Central bank governor changes in emerging markets may convey important signals about future monetary policy. Based on a new daily data set, this paper examines the reactions of foreign exchange markets, domestic stock market indices and sovereign bond spreads to central bank governor changes....
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In this paper, we construct alternative theoretical models for exchange rates by introducing additional risk factors …, based on the volatility of macroeconomic fundamentals. The modified flexible-price monetary model is used to characterize … macroeconomic sources of FOREX risk may be a missing factor in the exchange rate study. …
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asymmetric risk premia over the business cycle. These (empirical) key features become relevant, and asset market implications …-form expressions for the risk premium in production economies. In contrast to endowment economies, the curvature of the policy … functions affects the risk premium through controlling the individual’s effective risk aversion. …
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typically shares in the latter gains via the collection of tax revenues. Hence to the extent the risk discount rate should … reflect the co-variability between the return from public investment and that of the market, we are led to measuring the risk …, 1950-2000, and show that the social risk premium is relatively small vis-à-vis the market. Consequently, the use of the …
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increasing term structure for the risk premium. It also implies that, under the assumption that the cumulants of the distribution … investment is larger than half of relative risk aversion. Another important consequence of parametric uncertainty is that the … risk premium is not proportional to the beta of the investment. We apply these general results to the case of an uncertain …
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How should one evaluate investment projects whose CCAPM betas are uncertain? This question is particularly crucial for projects yielding long-lasting impacts on the economy, as is the case for example for many green investments. We define the notion of a certainty equivalent beta. We show that...
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Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...
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This paper studies the dynamics of volatility transmission between Central European currencies and euro/dollar foreign … exchange using model-free estimates of daily exchange rate volatility based on intraday data. We formulate a flexible yet … parsimonious parametric model in which the daily realized volatility of a given exchange rate depends both on its own lags as well …
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This paper applies volatility measures and VAR spectral analytic techniques to give a thorough description of the ….The central findings are summarized with regard to (i) national product share, contribution-to-variance and volatility …
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This paper investigates the role of economic and political volatility in the process of corporate tax … a number of measures of economic and political volatility. The fundamental testable prediction derived from the … theoretical model is that increased volatility should reduce a country’s corporate tax rate. Our results support the hypothesis …
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