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Persistence in the market risk premium : evidence across countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2020

This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany and Japan, and for robustness purposes considers...

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …

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Globalization, economic freedom and human rights

Dreher, Axel; Gassebner, Martin; Siemers, Lars - 2010

Using the KOF Index of Globalization and two indices of economic freedom, we empirically analyze whether globalization and economic liberalization affect governments' respect for human rights using a panel of 106 countries over the 1981-2004 period. According to our results, physical integrity...

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Lock, stock, and barrel : a comprehensive assessment of the determinants of terror

Gassebner, Martin; Lüchinger, Simon - 2011

We assess the robustness of previous findings on the determinants of terrorism. Using extreme bound analysis, the three most comprehensive terrorism datasets, and focusing on the three most commonly analyzed aspects of terrorist activity, i.e., location, victim, and perpetrator, we re-assess the...

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Does terror threaten human rights? : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor); … - 2007

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Greasing the wheels of entrepreneurship? : the impact of regulations and corruption on firm entry

Dreher, Axel (contributor); Gassebner, Martin (contributor) - 2007

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Central bank policy rates : are they cointegrated?

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Carcel, Hector; Gil-Alaña, … - 2017

This paper analyses the stochastic properties of and the bilateral linkages between the central bank policy rates of the US, the Eurozone, Australia, Canada, Japan and the UK using fractional integration and cointegration techniques respectively. The univariate analysis suggests a high degree of...

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Long memory and data frequency in financial markets

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2017

This paper investigates persistence in financial time series at three different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly). The analysis is carried out for various financial markets (stock markets, FOREX, commodity markets) over the period from 2000 to 2016 using two different long memory...

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Persistence in the Russian stock market volatility indices

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2018

This paper applies a fractional integration framework to analyse the stochastic behaviour of two Russian stock market volatility índices (namely the originally created RTSVX and the new RVI that has replaced it), using daily data over the period 2010-2018. The empirical findings are consistent...

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