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how much capital clients provide to funds at each date as a function of past performance. Convex flow … capital that is delegated is low, all funds follow the same strategy. However, when the equilibrium share of delegated capital … is high, funds with identical incentives employ heterogeneous trading strategies. A group of managers borrows to take on …
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market returns (R2), reflecting increased comovement after inclusion between the added stock and rest of the index. In … post-inclusion increase in comovement is positively correlated with the presence of index-oriented institutional investors … in comovement is related to information problems. …
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It is well known that the neoclassical model does not generate comovement among macroeconomic aggregates in response to … the neoclassical model. We present an open economy model that generates comovement both in response to sudden stops and to … news about future productivity and investment-specific technical change. We find that comovement is easier to generate in …
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The correlation across US states in house price growth increased steadily between 1976 and 2000. This paper shows that the contemporaneous geographic integration of the US banking market, via the emergence of large banks, was a primary driver of this phenomenon. To this end, we first...
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The correlation across US states in house price growth increased dramatically between 1976 and 2000. This paper shows that the contemporaneous geographic integration of the US banking market, via the emergence of large banks, was a primary driver of this phenomenon. To this end, we first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083771
markets using a flexible approach that allows us to investigate whether the co-movement is: (i) symmetric and occurring most … dependence may lead to wrong evidence of asymmetry. Third, a growing comovement between industrial metals and equity markets is … identified as early as in 2003, a comovement that spreads to all commodity classes and becomes unambiguously stronger with the …
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The study analyses the characteristics of professional exchange rate forecasts for the €/US$ rate. The results indicate that the quality of forecasts produced by professional economists is rather poor and incompatible with the rational expectations hypothesis. This dismal result is according...
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We analyze the investment decision of a population of time inconsistent entrepreneurs who overweight current payoffs relative to future returns. We show that, in order to avoid inefficient procrastination, agents may find it optimal to keep optimistic priors about their chances of success and...
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Investors are keenly interested in financial reports of earnings because earnings provide important information for investment decisions. Thus, executives who are monitored by investors and directors face strong incentives to manage earnings. We introduce consideration of...
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Rational investors perceive correctly the value of financial information. Investment in information is therefore rewarded with a higher Sharpe ratio. Overconfident investors overstate the quality of their own information, and thus attain a lower Sharpe ratio. We contrast the implications of the...
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