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This paper examines the hypothesis that firms in competitive industries should benefit relatively less from good governance, while firms in non-competitive industries--where lack of competitive pressure fails to enforce discipline on managers--should benefit relatively more. Whether we look at...
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inventors shape their collaboration decisions. Using a new panel of UK inventors and a novel identification strategy, this paper … systematically explores the net effects of all these ‘proximities’ on co-patenting. The regression analysis allows us to identify the … show that physical proximity is an important influence on collaboration, but is mediated by organisational and ethnic …
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In many economic applications involving comparisons of multivariate distributions, supermodularity of an objective function is a natural property for capturing a preference for greater interdependence. One multivariate distribution dominates another according to the `supermodular stochastic...
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derive empirical predictions for the direction of correlation and for whether governance is stronger or weaker with multiple …
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A number of studies have provided evidence of increased correlation in global financial market returns during bear … implied correlation based on portfolio downside risk measures that does not suffer from this bias. These unbiased quantile … correlation estimates are directly applicable to portfolio optimization and to risk management techniques in general. This simple …
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Testing the hypothesis that international equity market correlation increases in volatile times is a difficult exercise … and misleading results have often been reported in the past because of a spurious relationship between correlation and … volatility. This paper focuses on extreme correlation, that is to say the correlation between returns in either the negative or …
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34 recent studies have investigated the effect of currency union on trade, resulting in 754 point estimates of the effect. This Paper is a quantitative attempt to summarize the current state of debate; meta-analysis is used to combine the disparate estimates. The chief findings are that: a) the...
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