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Trading risk and volatility in interest rate swap spreads
Kambhu, John (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper examines how risk in trading activity can affect the volatility of asset prices. We look for this … swap spread tends to converge to a long-run level, although trading risk can sometimes cause the spread to diverge from … that level. -- convergence trading ; interest rate swaps ; swap spread ; repurchase contracts ; trading risk ; volatility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001936329
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Modeling uncertainty : predictive accuracy as a proxy for predictive confidence
Rich, Robert W. (contributor); Tracy, Joseph S. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001751995
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Evaluating the riskiness of initial public offerings: 1980 - 2000
Peristiani, Stavros C. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001752009
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Idiosyncratic risk and volatility bounds, or can models with idiosyncratic risk solve the equity premium puzzle?
Lettau, Martin (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001590071
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Financial-sector foreign direct investment and host countries : new and old lessons
Goldberg, Linda S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Many of the lessons from foreign direct investment (FDI) research on manufacturing and extractive resource industries are applicable to FDI research on the financial sector. This paper summarizes the main findings and policy themes of FDI research, with a primary focus on the implications of FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002101424
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Benefits and spillovers of greater competition in Europe : a macroeconomic assessment
Bayoumi, Tamim A. (contributor); Laxton, Douglas (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We estimate the macroeconomic benefits and international spillovers of an increase in competition using a general-equilibrium simulation model with nominal rigidities and monopolistic competition in product and labor markets. We draw three conclusions after calibrating the model to the euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002101549
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Has monetary policy become less powerful?
Boivin, Jean (contributor); Giannoni, Marc Paolo (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001656395
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Why use debit instead of credit? : consumer choice in a trillion-dollar market
Zinman, Jonathan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Debit cards are overtaking credit cards as the most prevalent form of electronic payment at the point of sale, yet the determinants of a ubiquitous consumer choice - "debit or credit?" - have received relatively little scrutiny. Several stylized facts suggest that debit-card use is driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521756
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The incentive effects of higher education subsidies on student effort
Şahin, Ayşegül (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
"This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002521757