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smaller expected net present value and in larger risk indicators for the net present value - than the normal model for … that the expected net present value is higher but that the risk indicators built on the net present value remain higher in …
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Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
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This paper assesses whether the allocation puzzle - the tendency for capital to flow to countries with relatively low productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows...
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This paper contributes to the empirical literature on determinants of FDI by addressing the question: Why do some developing countries from Asia continue to receive more FDI, while others from the region have fallen behind? It finds R&D-based innovative capacities, and the ability to apply such...
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This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers. The … analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk … parameters in various manufacturing sectors. The estimated income risk parameters and data on trade barriers are then used to …
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This paper studies the dynamics of international consumption risk sharing among the G7 countries. Based on the dynamic … conditional correlation model due to Engle (2002), we construct a time-varying, consumption-based measure of risk sharing. We find … evolution of risk sharing is rather heterogeneous across countries. …
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It has long been recognized that there is considerable heterogeneity in individual risk taking behavior but little is … known about the distribution of risk taking types. We present a parsimonious characterization of risk taking behavior by …
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than it has been usually considered in the literature. We study "fundamental" risk factors, which represent multivariate … risk aversion of the consumer volatility matrix of the technological activity returns and argue that they can be defined as …
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trend in yield differentials, which is correlated with the measure of tghe international risk factor. In contrast, liquidity … increase in both liquidity and risk, with an interaction term whosemagnitude and sign depends on the size of the liquidity … risk factor is consistently priced, while liquidity differentials are priced only for a subset of countries and their …
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other portfolios. We find that CoCo coupon rates are sensitive to risk variables at the instrument-, bank-, country- and … findings suggest that there is risk-shifting incentive induced by CoCo investors as well as a selection process into di erent …
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