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We ask whether stock returns in France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US are predictable by three instruments: the …
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The rapid growth of derivative markets has raised concerns about counterparty risk. It has been argued that their mutual guarantee funds provide an adequate safety net. While this mutualization of risk protects clients and brokers from idiosyncratic shocks, it is generally assumed that it also...
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This paper focuses on three large Continental European countries: France, Germany, and Italy. These countries have …
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The paper characterizes predictable components in excess rates of returns on major equity and foreign exchange markets using lagged excess returns, dividend yields, and forward premiums as instruments. Vector autoregressive techniques demonstrate one-step-ahead predictability and provide implied...
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panel dataset of firms that are publicly traded in France, Germany, and Italy. Controlling for either permanent unobserved …&D in France and Germany is remarkably similar both to each other and to that in the US or the UK during the same period In …
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, Germany, Japan, and the U.K. All of the anomalies are consistently significant across these five countries, whose developed …
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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...
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. The estimation of key parameters uses a simulated method of moments approach to match moments related to asset market … estimation are used to characterize the distributions of the marginal propensity to consume across households for each of the … policy-induced variations in stock returns. Finally, monetary contractions have a larger impact on consumption in Germany and …
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We estimate the degree of 'stickiness' in aggregate consumption growth (sometimes interpreted as reflecting consumption habits) for thirteen advanced economies. We find that, after controlling for measurement error, consumption growth has a high degree of autocorrelation, with a stickiness...
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We estimate peer effects for fourth graders in six European countries. The identification relies on variation across classes within schools. We argue that classes within primary schools are formed roughly randomly with respect to family background. Similar to previous studies, we find sizeable...
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