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Endogenous Market Thinness and Stock Price Volatility

Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

resulting volatility can induce risk-averse transactors who face transaction costs to desert these markets altogether. Thus … thinness and the consequent price volatility may become joint self-perpetuating features of an equity market, whatever the … volatility of asset fundamentals. If, however, appropriate incentive schemes are adopted to encourage entry of additional …

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Demand and Supply Factors in the Determination of NIE Exports: A Simultaneous Error-Correction Model for Hong Kong Exports

Muscatelli, Vito Antonio; Srinivasan, T G; Vines, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper considers the issue of whether a small developing economy such as Hong Kong faces a perfectly elastic demand for its exports of manufactured goods. We construct a simultaneous demand and supply system which is estimated using Full Information Maximum Likelihood methods, and which...

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Bank Lending and Property Prices in Hong Kong

Gerlach, Stefan; Peng, Wensheng - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper studies the relationship between residential property prices and lending in Hong Kong. This is an interesting topic for three reasons. First, swings in property prices have been extremely large and frequent in Hong Kong. Second, under the currency board regime, monetary policy cannot...

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Interpreting the Term Structure of Interbank Rates in Hong Kong

Gerlach, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper studies the term structure of short-term interbank rates in Hong Kong. Principal component analysis suggests that the variation of the term structure can be largely attributed to two components that capture shifts in the level and slope of the yield curve. We find that term spreads...

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Learning From Stock Prices and Economic Growth

Peress, Joël - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

specialization, wealth inequality, stock trading intensity, liquidity and return volatility. …

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The Stock Market Crash of 2008 Caused the Great Recession: Theory and Evidence

Farmer, Roger E A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper argues that the stock market crash of 2008, triggered by a collapse in house prices, caused the Great Recession. The paper has three parts. First, it provides evidence of a high correlation between the value of the stock market and the unemployment rate in U.S. data since 1929....

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Why Do Companies Go Public? An Empirical Analysis

Pagano, Marco; Panetta, Fabio; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper empirically analyses the determinants of an initial public offering (IPO) and the consequences of this decision on a company's investment and financial policy. We compare both the ex-ante and the ex-post characteristics of IPOs with those of a large sample of privately held companies...

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Measuring Co-Movements Between US and European Stock Markets

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Favero, Carlo A. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

volatility episodes? …

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Myopia, the 'Dividend Puzzle', and Share Prices

Nickell, Stephen; Wadhwani, Sushil B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The view that the stock market is myopic is commonly expressed in the financial press. However, the existing econometric evidence does not support this view. In this paper, we report econometric evidence suggesting that the market attaches too high a weight to current dividends relative to...

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Non-Parametric Estimates of the Foreign Exchange and Equity Risk Premia and Tests of Market Efficiency

Thomas, Stephen H; Wickens, Michael R. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

It is widely thought that neither the foreign exchange markets nor equity markets are efficient, in the sense that tests of the unbiasedness hypothesis and of the present value relationship, respectively, typically lead to rejection. Interest has therefore turned to whether a risk premium...

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