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Why Does Idiosyncratic Risk Increase with Market Risk
Bartram, Söhnke M. - 2017
has roots in fundamentals. Higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility as well as dispersion and …
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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility
Girma, Sourafel - 2016
show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two … economically significant effect on firm-level volatility, although an increase in the intensity of sales through foreign affiliates … has a stronger effect on volatility than a similar change in firms' export intensity. We also uncover evidence consistent …
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Dissecting Characteristics Nonparametrically
Freyberger, Joachim - 2017
We propose a nonparametric method to test which characteristics provide independent information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
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Dissecting Characteristics Nonparametrically
Freyberger, Joachim - 2018
We propose a nonparametric method to study which characteristics provide incremental information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910613
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Modelling Volatility of Cryptocurrencies Using Markov-Switching GARCH Models
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2018
This paper aims to select the best model or set of models for modelling volatility of the four most popular …
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Evaluation of Long-Dated Investments Under Uncertain Growth Trend, Volatility and Catastrophes
Gollier, Christian - 2021
probability of macroeconomic catastrophes à la Barro (2006), and to the case of an uncertain trend or volatility of growth à la …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315817
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Oil Prices and GCC Stock Markets : New Evidence from Smooth Transition Models
Ben Cheikh, Nidhaleddine - 2018
Our paper examines the effect of oil price changes on Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock markets using nonlinear smooth transition regression (STR) models. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our empirical results reveal that GCC stock markets do not have similar sensitivities to oil price...
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The Economics of Bitcoins -- Market Characteristics and Price Jumps
Gronwald, Marc - 2015
This paper deals with the economics of Bitcoins in two ways. First, it broadens the discussion on how to capture Bitcoins using economic terms. Center stage in this analysis take the discussion of some unique characteristics of this market as well as the comparison of Bitcoins and gold. Second,...
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The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges
Andersen, Torben M. - 2007
Scandinavian countries are often portrayed in policy debates as model examples having shown how to square concerns for efficiency and equity. The core principle of the Scandinavian welfare model is an individual entitlement to public sector provisions combined with collective financing via...
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Taxing Mobile Capital and Profits : The Nordic Welfare States
Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015
This paper discusses trends in capital taxation and the role of the corporate tax rate in a welfare state. It provides a summary of the tax competition literature with special application to capital taxation in small versus large countries. A main finding from this literature is that small...
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