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A recent stream of experimental economics literature studies the factors that contribute to the emergence of financial bubbles. We consider a setting where participants sorted according to their degree of risk aversion trade in experimental asset markets. We show that risk sorting is able to...
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Firm volatilities co-move strongly over time, and their common factor is the dispersion of the economy-wide firm size distribution. In the cross section, smaller firms and firms with a more concentrated customer base display higher volatility. Network effects are essential to explaining the...
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We propose a network model of firm volatility in which the customers' growth rate shocks influence the growth rates of their suppliers, larger suppliers have more customers, and the strength of a customer-supplier link depends on the size of the customer firm. Even though all shocks are i.i.d.,...
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Firm volatilities co-move strongly over time, and their common factor is the dispersion of the economy-wide firm size distribution. In the cross section, smaller firms and firms with a more concentrated customer base display higher volatility. Network effects are essential to explaining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075427
Technology spillovers have previously been shown to positively affect a firm's market value and innovation activities. We build on this literature by showing that value-relevant information from technology spillovers significantly reduces the likelihood of the focal firm experiencing a stock...
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We evaluate the financial risk and explore potential motivation of pervasive external guarantee activities. Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms during the period from 2008 to 2017, we find a positive association between external guarantees intensity and stock price crash risk. High...
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Elementary portfolio theory implies that environmentalists optimally hold more shares of polluting firms than non …
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analysts are constrained by their research resources, they collect information with more externalities. Measuring information … externalities as a stock’s fundamental correlations with other stocks in the same industry, we find that stocks with high … information externalities get more analyst coverage, more (high-quality) analyst reports, and more site visits than those with low …
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pricing and the fund provides subsidies to reduce technology costs or to boost investment returns. The investment subsidy …
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