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We document five facts about banks: (1) market and book leverage diverged during the 2008 crisis, (2) Tobin's Q predicts future profitability, (3) neither book nor market leverage appears constrained, (4) banks maintain a market leverage target that is reached slowly, (5) pre-crisis, leverage...
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Discussions of financial risk often fail to distinguish between risks that are consciously borne and those that are not. To understand the breeding conditions for financial crises the prime focus of concern should not be simply on large risk-taking per se, but on the unintended, or unanticipated...
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-existing development gaps in data economies on each country's production and international trade. Raw data as byproducts of consumption can … or even freeze trade. Cross-border data flows mitigate the situation and improve welfare when added to international … international trade and data flows, contributing more raw data from which the data-efficient countries generate knowledge for …
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We test and compare the effects of introduction of two new financial information technologies, EDGAR and XBRL, on well-known asset pricing anomalies often attributed to mispricing. EDGAR facilitates easier access to public accounting information about public firms; XBRL reduces the cost of...
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Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This reaction reflects reasonably rational use of information. "Tone surprise" - the residual when negativity in managerial tone is regressed on the firm's recent economic performance...
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Now in prospect is a major revision of international bank capital regulations that would embody recent advances in …
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Convergence in per capita income across countries turns on whether technological knowledge spillover are global or local. This paper estimates the amount of spillover from R&D expenditures in major industrialized countries on a geographic basis. A new data set is used which encompasses most of...
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information heavily determines the pattern of international transactions. Our model integrates elements of the finance literature … on portfolio composition and the international macroeconomics and asset trade literature. Gross asset flows depend on …
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The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are …
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