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now that the model has become an auto-nomous, unreflected item in international accounting standards and law allowing … "creative" accounting. There is no economial relation between the future value of an underlying and it's current volatility …
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This paper presents some stylised facts about the book-tax gap, i.e. the difference between book and taxable income, of Italian corporations. This divergence is a reflection of the usage of any tax shields and any applicable credits and rebates which, in turn, implies that the concept of taxable...
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This paper empirically examines how changes in the hierarchical structure of a large organization can affect incentives. The empirical analysis exploits a change in the hierarchical structure of the Corporate Division of a private foreign commercial bank in Argentina between 1999 and 2001. Using...
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An important literature has pointed out the coordination problems faced by the agents, in particular the financial one when they have to manage risk and their portfolio. If we follow Kaldor and its definition of speculation, then we could point out that in this case agents are short term...
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extended to include market risk measurements for n countries. Exploiting a selection matrix based on the cash accounting … return-risk attribution accounting framework is applied to monthly return data of Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the …
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extend their exact accounting framework to include market risk measurements for n countries. The resulting n^2 x n^2 strategy … imposed by the exact accounting framework allow to solve the conventional Markowitz' mean- variance optimization problem as a … the resulting 2n optimal investment choices. Our complete and exact return- risk attribution accounting framework is …
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The business media play an active role in influencing stock prices. Statistically significant excess returns at the time of the publication of stock recommendations have been documented many times. Frequently these abnormal gains begin to accumulate long before the publication date. In most...
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A widely held belief in financial economics suggests that stock prices always adequately reflect all available information. Price movements away from fundamentals are assumed to occur only infrequently, if at all. „False“ prices are supposed to be corrected by the counter-actions of...
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In our model, informed players decide whether or not to disclose, and observers allocate attention among disclosed signals, and toward reasoning through the implications of a failure to disclose. In equilibrium disclosure is incomplete, and observers are unrealistically optimistic. Nevertheless,...
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Numerous empirical studies have demonstrated that asset prices react rapidly, if at all, to news published in the mass media. In many cases, the information has been discounted and prices have already moved upon primary publication through news wires, press releases or firm announcements. Any...
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