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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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Are "market neutral" hedge funds really market neutral?

Patton, Andrew J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

standard correlation-based definition of neutrality. Variance neutrality, Value-at-Risk neutrality and tail neutrality all … relate to the neutrality of the risk of the hedge fund to market risks. Finally, complete neutrality. corresponds to … one-quarter of these funds exhibit some significant exposure to market risk. …

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On the out-of-sample importance of skewness and asymetric dependence for asset allocation

Patton, Andrew J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

allocation decisions in an out-of-sample setting. We consider the problem of a CRRA investor allocating wealth between the risk … performance measures and levels of risk aversion our results suggest that capturing skewness and asymmetric dependence leads to …

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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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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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