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All You Need is Cash : Corporate Cash Holdings and Investment after the Global Financial Crisis

Joseph, Andreas; Kneer, Christiane; Horen, Neeltje van - 2021

Cash holdings at the onset of a financial crisis are a key determinant of investment by SMEs not only during the crisis but also during the recovery period. Cash-rich SMEs could maintain their capital stock during the global financial crisis, while cash-poor rivals reduced theirs. This gave...

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Exchange Competition, Entry, and Welfare

Cespa, Giovanni - 2019

liquidity and (generally) welfare compared to the case of an unregulated monopoly. Controlling entry or, even better, platform …

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The Liquidity Channel of Fiscal Policy

Bayer, Christian - 2020

—the liquidity premium. We rationalize this finding in an estimated heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete … markets and portfolio choice, in which public debt affects private liquidity. In this environment, the short-run fiscal … multiplier is amplified by the countercyclical liquidity premium. This liquidity channel stabilizes investment and crowds in …

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Insensitive Investors

Charles, Constantin; Frydman, Cary; Kilic, Mete - 2022

We show theoretically that the weak transmission of beliefs to actions induces a strong bias in basic asset pricing tests. In particular, expected returns can appear to decline in risk when investors weakly transmit their payoff expectations into willingness to pay. We experimentally test this...

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Arbitrage Pricing Theory, the Stochastic Discount Factor and Estimation of Risk Premia from Portfolios

Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, Ron - 2021

The arbitrage pricing theory (APT) attributes differences in expected returns to exposure to systematic risk factors …

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Currency Portfolio of External Debt, Exchange Rate Cyclicality, and Consumption Volatility

Fujii, Eiji - 2020

Even though external debt can play a buffer role against adverse shocks to assist consumption smoothing, it may also exert a volatility amplifying effect, depending on the currency of denomination and the cyclicality of the borrower's exchange rate. We empirically investigate the nexus between...

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Tenure Choice, Portfolio Structure and Long-Term Care - Optimal Risk Management in Retirement

Fehr, Hans - 2019

We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...

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Inefficiency in Social Security Trust Funds Forecasts

Lahiri, Kajal; Zhang, Junyan; Zhao, Yongchen - 2021

We examine forecast accuracy and efficiency of the Social Security Administration’s projections for cost rate, trust fund balance, trust fund ratio made during 1980-2020 with horizons up to 95 years. We find that the reported deterioration in the accuracy of the forecasts during 2010’s has...

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Carbon Dioxide as a Risky Asset

Bauer, Adam Michael; Proistosescu, Christian; Wagner, Gernot - 2023

We develop a financial-economic model for carbon pricing with an explicit representation of decision making under risk and uncertainty that is consistent with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report. We find that this approach provides economic support for the...

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Lender of last resort and bank closure policy

Freixas, Xavier; Parigi, Bruno Maria - 2008

During the last decades a consensus has emerged that it is impossible to disentangle liquidity shocks from solvency …

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