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The Trading Response of Individual Investors to Local Bankruptcies
Laudenbach, Christine - 2020
We use data from a German online brokerage and a survey to show that retail investors sharply reduce risk-taking in response to nearby firm bankruptcies, which are not predictive of returns. The effects on trading are spatially highly concentrated, immediate and not persistent. They seem to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837679
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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises
Stein, Jerome L. - 2009
This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276757
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The price of liquidity: bank characteristics and market conditions
Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - 2009
We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique … to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long liquidity. We find that the price a bank pays for liquidity depends … on the liquidity positions of other banks, as well as its own. There is evidence that liquidity squeezes occasionally …
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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk?
Bartram, Söhnke M.; Brown, Gregory; Stulz, René M. - 2017
relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation …
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Redrawing of a Housing Market : Insurance Payouts and Housing Market Recovery in the Wake of the Christchurch Earthquake of 2011
Nguyen, Cuong - 2020
On the 22nd of February 2011, much of the residential housing stock in the city of Christchurch, New Zealand, was damaged by an unusually destructive earthquake. Almost all of the houses were insured. We ask whether insurance was able to mitigate the damage adequately, or whether the damage from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822499
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Who Bears the Burden of Real Estate Transfer Taxes? Evidence from the German Housing Market
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...
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Housing Market Expectations
Kuchler, Theresa; Piazzesi, Monika; Stroebel, Johannes - 2022
We review the recent literature on the determinants and effects of housing market expectations. We begin by providing an overview of existing surveys that elicit housing market expectations, and discuss how those surveys may be expanded in the future. We then document a number of facts about...
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Limited Attention in the Housing Market : Threshold Effects of Energy-Performance Certificates on Property Prices and Energy-Efficiency Investments
Sejas-Portillo, Rodolfo; Comerford, David; Moro, Mirko; … - 2021
We study the effects of limited attention on property prices and energy efficiency (EE) investments in the housing market. Using a novel dataset, we analyse over 5 million residential property sale transactions in England and Wales, each containing information about sale price, property and...
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Homes Incorporated : Offshore Ownership of Real Estate in the U.K
Johannesen, Niels; Miethe, Jakob; Weishaar, Daniel - 2022
Ownership of real estate through corporations in offshore tax havens creates opportunities for tax evasion and money laundering and may have undesirable effects in housing markets. In this paper, we study offshore ownership of real estate in the United Kingdom by combining several data sources:...
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The Heterogeneous Response of Real Estate Asset Prices to a Global Shock
Heiniger, Sandro; Koeniger, Winfried; Lechner, Michael - 2022
We estimate the transmission of the pandemic shock in 2020 to prices in the residential and commercial real estate market by causal machine learning, using new granular data at the municipal level for Germany. We exploit differences in the incidence of Covid infections or short-time work at the...
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