The momentum episode of novel coronavirus infection 2019 (COVID-19) represents a remarkable worldwide wellbeing and monetary risk to interconnected human social orders. Until an antibody is created, systems for controlling the flare-up depend on forceful social removing. In this connection, We...

Over 40% of U.S. COVID-19 deaths occurred in nursing homes. Given increasing private equity (PE) ownership in healthcare and long-standing concerns that PE investors focus on profits to the detriment of patients, it is important to understand the impact of PE ownership during the COVID-19...

We show that at-the-money implied volatility of options on futures of 5-year Treasury notes (Treasury ‘yield implied volatility') predicts both the growth rate and volatility of gross domestic product, as well as of other macroeconomic variables, like industrial production, consumption, and...

Current measures of bank distress find marginal value in predictive variables beyond a capital adequacy ratio and tend to miss extreme events impacting the entire sector. Our paper advocates a new proxy for bank distress: sentiment measures from banks' annual reports. After controlling for...

This paper studies the impact of private equity (PE) acquisitions on quality of care in U.S. nursing homes. To do this, we examine 77 PE deals covering 1451 nursing homes between 1993 and 2017. We find significant heterogeneity in the effect of PE ownership according to levels of local market...

In this paper we introduce a new approach to estimating differentiated product demand systems that allows for products with zero sales in the data. Zeroes in demand are a common problem in product differentiated markets, but fall outside the scope of existing demand estimation techniques. Our...

Right to privacy is not a common law right but widely recognized under the doctrine of equity and right to democratic justice. Anyone can learn a great deal about this law, from the history of privacy and how, when and where it was derived from, to the current situation. The principles from the...

Stock prices have always been a subject of intrigue. Researchers have strived to find the factors which influence stock prices thereby returns. Fama and French constructed a 3 factor model which has been applied across the globe to test the validity of the model. The results have varied and have...