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Being granted a title enhances the status of the awardee while its loss has an opposite effect. The present article examines whether the latter effect dominates the former in the sense that elevation is less status-enhancing than relegation is status-damaging. Thereto, we use the three...
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access to financial markets quite quickly result in increasing market participation. However, the degree and sort of risk …
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is negative in all countries except Canada (where it is positive) in the case of bond flows. Under the assumption of risk …
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We define a class of risk-taking-neutral (RTN) background risks. These background risks have the property that they … will not alter decisions made with respect to another risk, for individuals with HARA utility. If we wish to compare a … decision made with and without some exogenous background risk, it is often easier to compare the decision made to one made with …
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Global climate change and other environmental challenges require the development of new energy technologies with lower emissions. In the near-term, R&D investments, either by government or the private sector, can bring down the costs of these lower emission technologies. However, the results of...
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can undertake an active portfolio management strategy by investing in both risk-free and risky assets. Using a two …
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boom yields consistently positive excess returns. This excess return compensates for the risk of high negative returns in … countries on risk aversion, and low (high) risk aversion currencies depreciate (appreciate) in times of global turmoil …
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We analyze the effect of means-tested benefits on annuitization decisions. Most industrialized countries provide a subsistence level consumption floor in old age, usually in the form of means-tested benefits. The availability of such means-tested payments creates an incentive to cash out...
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empirically show two main findings: first, risk-taking is positively related to the length of tax loss periods because the loss … rules shift some risk to the government; and second, the tax rate has a positive effect on risk-taking for firms that expect …
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-Bernanke period only. Focusing on this period, the “risk-management” approach is found to be responsible for monetary policy easings …
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