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Liquidity and Expected Returns: Lessons from Emerging Markets
Bekaert, Geert; Harvey, Campbell; Lundblad, Christian T - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Given the cross-sectional and temporal variation in their liquidity, emerging equity markets provide an ideal setting to examine the impact of liquidity on expected returns. Our main liquidity measure is a transformation of the proportion of zero daily firm returns, averaged over the month. We...
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Short- and Long-term Hedging for the Corporation
Dumas, Bernard J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
of a particular future cash flow involves a forward contract equal but opposite in sign to the exposure of the cash flow …
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In Search of New Foundations
Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
In this paper I argue that corporate finance theory, empirical research, practical applications, and policy … change the way we do corporate finance, both theoretically and empirically. …
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The Corporate Governance Role of the Media
Dyck, Alexander; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
In this Paper we discuss the role of the media in pressuring corporate managers and directors to behave in ways that … anecdotal and systematic evidence that media affect companies’ policy toward the environment and the amount of corporate … focus of the corporate governance debate and for the feasibility of reforms aimed at improving corporate governance around …
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Coping with the Inevitable Adjustment in the US Current Account
Jarrett, Peter - 2005
In recent years the US current account deficit has grown to the point that most observers consider its level to be already unsustainable. Yet it seems set to continue to increase in the foreseeable future, with net foreign debt likely to surge. This paper describes the present deficit from three...
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Monetary Policy, Market Excesses and Financial Turmoil
Ahrend, Rudiger - 2008
This paper addresses the question of whether and how monetary policy ease may lead to excesses in financial and real asset markets and ultimately result in financial dislocation. It presents evidence suggesting that periods when short-term interest rates have been persistently and significantly...
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Financial Market Integration in the Euro Area
Gjersem, Carl - 2003
Although there is no single yardstick to gauge the degree of integration, there is ample evidence that financial markets in the euro area have some way to go before national demarcation lines will effectively disappear and financial market integration is satisfactory. While there has been a push...
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Euro Area Government Bonds—Integration and Fragmentation During the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Ehrmann, Michael; Fratzscher, Marcel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The paper analyzes the integration of euro area sovereign bond markets during the European sovereign debt crisis. It tests for contagion (i.e., an intensification in the transmission of shocks across countries), fragmentation (a reduction in spillovers) and flight-to-quality patterns, exploiting...
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Public Debt, Economic Growth and Nonlinear Effects: Myth or Reality?
Égert, Balázs - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
The economics profession seems to increasingly endorse the existence of a strongly negative nonlinear effect of public debt on economic growth. Reinhart and Rogoff (2010) were the first to point out that a public debt-to-GDP ratio higher than 90% of GDP is associated with considerably lower...
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The 90% Public Debt Threshold: The Rise and Fall of a Stylised Fact
Égert, Balázs - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper puts the original Reinhart-Rogoff dataset, made public by Herndon et al. (2013), to a formal econometric test to pin down debt thresholds endogenously. We show that the nonlinear relation from debt to growth is not very robust. Taken with a pinch of salt, our results suggest, however,...
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