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Do financial markets properly reflect leverage? Unlike Gomes and Schmid (2010) who examine this question with a structural approach (using long-term monthly stock characteristics), my paper examines it with a quasi-experimental approach (using short-term a discrete event). After a firm has...
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An analysis of trades in the Finnish stock market around the turn of the year shows that Finnish investors tend to realize losses more than gains towards the end of December. They also buy back the same stocks they recently sold, with a repurchase rate that depends on the size of the capital...
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As illustrated in the tale of "the dog that did not bark," the absence of news and the passage of time often contain … after merger announcement, the passage of time is informative about the probability that the merger will ultimately complete … consistent with a behavioral model of underreaction to the passage of time and cannot be explained by changes in risk or …
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impact of time-varying inflation. Consistent with the Modigliani-Cohn hypothesis, we find that the level of inflation … explains almost 80% of the time-series variation in stock-market mispricing …
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variances of returns are time- varying. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether these joint fluctuations of …-variance model under several different assumptions about the time-variation of conditional second moments of returns, using weekly … Swiss franc assets, together with the US stock market. The model is estimated constraining risk premia to depend on the time …
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Background: The fact that many individuals inexplicably fail to buy stocks, despite the historical evidence for a good return on investment has been referred to as the stock market puzzle. However, measurements of the subjective probability of a gain show that people are more pessimistic than...
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We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovements and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We …
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We propose a simple framework to assess the costs of nominal price adjustment using stock market returns. We document that, after monetary policy announcements, the conditional volatility rises more for firms with stickier prices than for firms with more flexible prices. This differential...
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We develop a general equilibrium model of asset prices in which the benefits of technological innovation are distributed asymmetrically. Financial market participants do not capture all the economic rents resulting from innovative activity, even when they own shares in innovating firms. Economic...
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The purpose of this paper is to present and estimate a model which allows one to use the recently computerized U.S. Patent Office's data base to identify when and where changes in inventive output have occurred. The model assumes a firm which chooses a research strategy to maximize the expected...
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