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Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy

Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper examines the impact of mass media and information and commu- nications technologies (ICT) as knowledge-based infrastructures on economic development. The results suggest that both mass media and ICT penetra- tion are negatively associated with corruption. This result holds across both...

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Silli, Bernhard; Cohen, Randolph B; Polk, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

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Stock prices under pressure: how tax and interest rates drive returns at the turn of the tax year

Kang, Johnny; Pekkala, Tapio; Polk, Christopher; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-o¤ between selling a temporarily depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...

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Can rare events explain the equity premium puzzle?

Julliard, Christian; Ghosh, Anisha - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

frequencies, the Consumption-CAPM is still rejected by the data and requires a very high level of Relative Risk Aversion(RRA) in … order to rationalize the stock market risk premium. This result holds for a variety of data sources and samples –including …-sectional dis-persion of consumption risk relative to the cross-sectional variation of average returns …

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Consistent estimation of the risk-return tradeoff in the presence of measurement error

Ghosh, Anisha; Linton, Oliver - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper proposes an approach to estimating the relation between risk (conditional variance) and expected returns in … proxy for the volatility in estimating the risk-return relation. Third, our estimation strategy involves the Generalized …

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Does the use of social networking sites increase children’s risk of harm?

Staksrud, Elisabeth; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … second hypothesis stated that SNS users with more digital competence will encounter more online risk than those with less …) will encounter more online risk than those with fewer risky practices: this too was supported by the data; thus what …

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Risky social networking practices among ‘under-age’ users: lessons for evidence-based policy

Livingstone, Sonia; Ólafsson, Kjartan; Staksrud, Elisabeth - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...

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