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Investigating the Asymmetric Impact of Oil Prices on GCC Stock Markets

Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine; Ben Naceur, Samy; Kanaan, … - 2021

This paper investigates the presence of asymmetric relationship between oil price movements and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets. We propose the implementation of nonlinear vector smooth transition regression (VSTR) models which offer a greater flexibility when modelling the possible...

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Misspecification Testing in a Class of Conditional Distributional Models

Rothe, Christoph - 2012

We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the Cramer-von Mises distance between an unrestricted estimate of the joint distribution function of the data,...

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When the Market Drives You Crazy : Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents

Giulietti, Corrado - 2018

The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...

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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep : An Archetypal Approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

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From Riches to Rags, and Back? Institutional Change, Financial Development and Economic Growth in Argentina Since the 1890s

Campos, Nauro - 2014

individual effects on economic growth and volatility using the power-ARCH framework with annual data since the 1890s. The results …

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Financial Sector Regulation and Reforms in Emerging Markets : An Overview

Prasad, Eswar S. - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the complex conceptual and practical challenges that emerging market economies face as they attempt to reform their frameworks for financial regulation. These economies are striving to balance the quest for financial stability with the imperatives of financial...

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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?

Saka, Orkun - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Stock Market Returns and Consumption

Di Maggio, Marco - 2018

This paper employs Swedish data on households' stock holdings to investigate how consumption responds to changes in stock market returns. We instrument the actual capital gains and dividend payments with past portfolio weights. Unrealized capital gains lead to a marginal propensity to consume...

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Relationship between the Real Estate Sector and the Stock Market in Chinese Provinces

Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022

data from 2000 to 2016. Various panel unit root, co-integration, and model specification and estimation tests are carried …

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skills, Hiring Channels, and Wages in Bangladesh

Hilger, Anne - 2018

This paper uses a novel matched employer-employee data set representing the formal sector in Bangladesh to provide …

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