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Over the last decade foreign bond portfolio positions in US dollar assets have risen above the reciprocal US investor positions in foreign currencies. In periods of increased economic uncertainty, institutional investors hedge their international bond positions, which creates a net hedging...
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This paper examines the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on different components of portfolio flows, namely equity and bond flows, as well as the dynamic linkages between exchange rate volatility and the variability of these two types of flows. Specifically, a bivariate GARCH-BEKK-in-mean...
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carry strategy that goes short in countries that are in a consumption bust and goes long in countries with a consumption …
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The standard literature on working time has modelled the decisions of firms in a deterministic framework in which firms can choose between employment and overtime (given mandated standard hours). Contrary to this approach, we follow the real options approach, which allows us to investigate the...
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We analyze the worst currency carry loss episodes in recent decades, including causes, attribution by currency, timing, and the duration of carry drawdowns. To explore the determinants of the length of carry losses, a model of carry drawdown duration is estimated. We find evidence that drawdown...
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This paper analyses the stochastic behaviour of Private Equity returns (a measure of profitability) applying fractional …
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We examine the profitability of cross-ownership in an oligopolistic industry where firms compete as Cournot rivals. We … over to the case of non-renewable resource industries. The profitability of a symmetric cross-ownership can be positive … profitable to do so, more importantly, it constitutes a shrewd strategy to avoid possible legal challenges. …
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We extend Trade-Off Theory (TOT) by assuming that EBITDA (Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and … allowances on leverage. We show that TDA act as a complement to debt leverage, generating a negative leverage-profitability …
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simultaneously risen in most countries. Moreover, the gross profitability of firms seems to be lower in high-tax countries, even …
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In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find …
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