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Bond, Stephen Roy; Devereux, Michael P. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Academic and policy debates generally consider levying tax on corporate profit on either a residence basis or on a source basis. We explore two alternatives, based on the location of consumption, rather than production – destination-based, as opposed to source-based or residence-based, taxes....

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Hope, Change, and Financial Markets: Can Obama's Words Drive the Market?

Sazedj, Sharmin; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Barack Obama’s victory in the 2009 presidential elections in the United States is widely credited to his personal charisma and his extraordinary rhetorical powers, as revealed throughout the campaign. President Obama was inaugurated in the midst of the worst economic crisis in the country,...

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U.S. Monetary Shocks and Global Stock Prices

Laeven, Luc; Tong, Hui - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper studies how U.S. monetary policy affects global stock prices. We find that global stock prices respond strongly to changes in U.S. interest rate policy, with stock prices increasing (decreasing) following unexpected monetary loosening (tightening). This impact is more pronounced for...

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Can the Fed talk the hind legs off the stock market?

Eijffinger, Sylvester C W; Mahieu, Ronald J; Raes, Louis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Deliberately or not, by providing its stance on the prospects of the economy, rationalizing past decisions or announcing future actions, central banks influence financial markets' expectations of its future policy. In bad times, monetary policy communication inducing an upward revision of the...

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Carry

Koijen, Ralph; Moskowitz, Tobias J; Pedersen, Lasse Heje; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Any security’s expected return can be decomposed into its “carry” and its expected price appreciation, where carry is a model-free characteristic that can be observed in advance. While carry has been studied almost exclusively for currencies, we find that carry predicts returns both in the...

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Collateralisation bubbles when investors disagree about risk

Broer, Tobias; Kero, Afroditi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Survey respondents strongly disagree about return risks and, increasingly, macroeconomic uncertainty. This may have contributed to higher asset prices through increased use of collateralisation, which allows risk-neutral investors to realise perceived gains from trade. Investors with lower risk...

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The Inefficient Markets Hypothesis: Why Financial Markets Do Not Work Well in the Real World

Farmer, Roger E A; Nourry, Carine; Venditti, Alain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Existing literature continues to be unable to offer a convincing explanation for the volatility of the stochastic discount factor in real world data. Our work provides such an explanation. We do not rely on frictions, market incompleteness or transactions costs of any kind. Instead, we modify a...

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Can Information Heterogeneity Explain the Exchange Rate Determination Puzzle?

Bacchetta, Philippe; van Wincoop, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Empirical evidence shows that macroeconomic fundamentals have little explanatory power for nominal exchange rates. On the other hand, the recent ‘microstructure approach to exchange rates’ has shown that most exchange rate volatility at short to medium horizons is related to order flows....

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Liquidity Constraints and Entrepreneurial Performance

Hvide, Hans K; Møen, Jarle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

If entrepreneurs are liquidity constrained and cannot borrow to operate on an efficient scale, those with more personal wealth should do better than those with less wealth. We investigate this hypothesis using a unique datset from Norway. Consistent with liquidity constraints being present, we...

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Investment, Liquidity Constraints and Bank Relationships: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Elston, Julie Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

firm investment. This hypothesis is tested by estimating investment equations for two groups of German manufacturing firms … external financing costs and liquidity constraints. Findings support the hypothesis of greater investment sensitivity to … liquidity constraints, as well as increased investment sensitivity over time, for the group of independent firms. …

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