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We study how background health risk affects financial risk-taking. We elicit financial risk-taking behavior of a … infections across time and space, we find that an increase in infections affecting background health risk translates into higher … financial risk-taking, and for the alleviating effect of self-insurance devices …
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We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in … corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays … intuitive relations with quantitative measures of cybersecurity risk disclosure language, exhibits a positive trend over time …
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. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it … risk coverage mechanisms based on a portfolio of financial securities, including long-short positions and options in stock … conclusions are derived from a theoretical model of corporate risk management, and they are illustrated by numerical simulations …
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We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis. We use exogenous policy variation for firms with different legal statuses and financial year-end dates to causally identify the...
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. The pandemic risk cannot be mutualized since it affects simultaneously a large number of businesses, and furthermore, it … risk coverage mechanisms based on a portfolio of financial securities, including long-short positions and options in stock … conclusions are derived from a theoretical model of corporate risk management, and they are illustrated by numerical simulations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314804
We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis. We use exogenous policy variation for firms with different legal statuses and financial year-end dates to causally identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263915
This paper considers a multivariate t version of the Gaussian dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) model proposed by Engle (2002), and suggests the use of devolatized returns computed as returns standardized by realized volatilities rather than by GARCH type volatility estimates. The t-DCC...
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making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …
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endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an endogenous regime-switching process for output, the risk-free rate, excess …
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We study the interplay between tenure decisions, stock market investment and the public social security system. Housing equity not only serves a dual purpose as a consumption good and as an asset, but also provides insurance to buffer various risks in retirement. Our life cycle model captures...
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