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Do Stock Market Fluctuations Affect Suicide Rates?

Wisniewski, Tomasz Piotr - 2020

In this study, we extend the standard economic model of suicide by considering a new influential factor driving the … relationship between stock market returns and the percentage increase in suicide rates. Trends in male and female suicide are … potential to implement pro-active suicide prevention strategies for those who could be affected by the vagaries of the market …

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Stock market risk and suicide

Koh, Kanghyock; Han, Hyojin - In: Pacific-Basin finance journal 78 (2023), pp. 1-11

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The Fragility of Organization Capital

Boguth, Oliver - 2018

Firms with high levels of organization capital, a firm-specific production factor provided by key employees, are known to be risky and earn high stock returns. We argue that fragility of organization capital -- its sensitivity to potential disruptions -- is an independently important determinant...

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Skyrocketing Drug Prices : The Bubble We Live In

Rabbani, Maysam - 2023

This short paper identifies an insidious pattern in the United States (US) pharmaceutical industry: while drug prices are skyrocketing, insurers are perfectly shielding patients from higher costs at the pharmacy checkout, letting patients live in a "bubble" of price insulation. As drug prices...

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The Dow is Killing Me : Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market

Cotti, Chad - 2016

We investigate how risky health behaviors and self-reported health vary with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) and during stock market crashes. Because stock market indices are leading indicators of economic performance, this research contributes to our understanding of the macro-economic...

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Has COVID-19 changed the correlation between cryptocurrencies and stock markets?

Abdelkafi, Ines; Romdhane, Youssra Ben; Loukil, Sahar - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 12 (2023) 2, pp. 139-156

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the notion that cryptocurrencies are uncorrelated with traditional asset markets. This study uses VAR-OLS techniques to investigate the time-varying correlation between Bitcoin and three major European stock market indices from January 4, 2016, to February...

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The Impact of 'Three-Child' Policy on the Stock Performance of Chinese Maternal and Infant Industry

Cai, Xiang - 2022

The "three-child policy" is a unique population policy in China. Previous studies have shown that demographic policies are related to the performance of related stocks and affect economic development. I studied the impact of the introduction of the "three- child policy" on the stock performance...

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Essays on labor markets and empirical finance

Room, Tairi - 2004

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Income Inequality and Asset Prices Under Redistributive Taxation

Pastor, Lubos - 2017

Our simple model features agents heterogeneous in skill and risk aversion, incomplete financial markets, and redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more...

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Family First? Kinship Ties and Equity Prices

Parise, Gianpaolo - 2019

In this paper, we construct a novel measure of nepotism and explore its implications for firm value. We document that 35% of U.S. public firms employ relatives in top jobs. Using our measure, we show that nepotism decreases firm value: high-nepotism stocks underperform low-nepotism stocks by...

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