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Initiative, Incentives and Soft Information. How Does Delegation Impact The Role of Bank Relationship Managers?

Liberti, Jose Maria - EconWPA - 2004

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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"Excess Volatility" and the German Stock Market, 1870-1990

Long, J. Bradford De; Becht, Marco - EconWPA - 1995

This paper uses long-run real price and dividends series to investigate for the German stock market the questions asked of the U.S. market by Shiller (1989). It tries to determine in what periods and to what degree the Germanstock market has also possessed "excess volatility" over the past...

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Analysis of UAE Bank Stocks

Rao, Ananth - EconWPA - 2003

Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity …

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Wealth Effects of Banks' Rights to Market and Originate Annuities

Cowan, Arnold R.; Howell, Jann C.; Power, Mark L. - EconWPA - 2002

We examine wealth effects, for banks and insurers, of bank rights to sell and underwrite annuities. The stock-price reactions to four court and regulatory decisions are consistent with expectations of bank gains at insurers' expense. Cross-sectionally, smaller, riskier insurers with higher...

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Time-Varying Arrival Rates of Informed and Uninformed Trades

Easley, David; Engle, Robert F.; O'Hara, Maureen; Wu, Liuren - EconWPA - 2002

the arrival rates of trades and trade composition on market volatility, liquidity and depth. We find that although … composition of the trade. We use the opening bid-ask spread as a measure of market liquidity. We find that as the number of trades …

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Liquidity Effects of Changes in a Pan-European Stock Index

Pape, Ulrich; Schmidt-Tank, Stephan - EconWPA - 2005

that has been brought forward in the literature is the liquidity hypothesis according to which an increase in liquidity … after an addition is responsible for the observed rise in value. In the following paper, we examine liquidity effects on … as indicators for liquidity. While there is a medium term price effect, bid-ask spreads do not change significantly due …

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Lending Booms in Europe’s Periphery: South-Western Lessons for Central-Eastern Members

Brzoza-Brzezina, Michal - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we analyse the potential for lending booms in three biggest new EU member states (Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland) during the process of Euro adoption. Experience of old members (Greece, Ireland and Portugal) as well as econometric evidence speak in favour of strong increases in...

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Detrending Time-Aggregated Data

Aadland, David - EconWPA - 2002

This paper examines the combined influences of detrending and time aggregation on the measurement of business cycles. The approximate band- pass filter of Baxter and King (1999) performs relatively well in the sense that it retains the basic shape of disaggregate spectra and cospectra when...

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Output Changes and Inflationary Bias in Transition

Filer, Randall K.; Hanousek, Jan - EconWPA - 2001

Mismeasurement of inflation is likely to be more severe in a transition economy than in a more stable environment. Reasonable estimates of the size of the inflationary bias in the Czech Republic suggest that conventionally reported declines in real output and living standards during the...

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How the Basic RBC Model Fails to Explain US Time Series

Chow, Gregory C. - EconWPA - 2003

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