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Complementary bidding mechanisms and startup costs in electricity markets
Reguant, Mar - 2014
these complementarities, which in these markets arise due to startup costs. I find that startup costs are substantial and … settings, I find that startup costs limit the ability of firms to change production over time, exacerbating fluctuations in … market prices. These fluctuations can induce estimates of market power that ignore dynamic costs to overstate markup …
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Cryptocurrency market reactions to regulatory news
Auer, Raphael A.; Claessens, Stijn - 2020
Cryptocurrencies are often thought to operate out of the reach of national regulation, but in fact their valuations, transaction volumes and user bases react substantially to news about regulatory actions. The impact depends on the specific regulatory category to which the news relates: events...
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Revealing downturns
Schmalz, Martin C.; Zhuk, Sergey - 2018
When Bayesian risk-averse investors are uncertain about their assets' cash flows' exposure to systematic risk, stock prices react more to news in downturns than in upturns, implying higher volatility in downturns and negatively skewed returns. The reason is that, in good times, less desirable...
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Quantitative easing in the euro area : an event study approach
Urbschat, Florian; Watzka, Sebastian - 2017
We examine the effects of the Asset Purchase Programme (APP) gradually introduced by the European Central Bank from September 2014 onwards. Studying the short-term reaction of financial markets after APP press releases, we analyse the development of bond yields and spreads around these releases....
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The economic effects of Brexit : evidence from the stock market
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2018
We study stock market reactions to the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 in order to assess investors' expectations about the effects of leaving the European Union on the UK economy. Our results suggest that initial stock price movements were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the...
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Missing events in event studies : identifying the effects of partially-measured news surprises
Gürkaynak, Refet S.; Kısacıkoğlu, Burçin; Wright, … - 2018
Macroeconomic news announcements are elaborate and multi-dimensional. We consider a framework in which jumps in asset prices around macroeconomic news and monetary policy announcements reflect both the response to observed surprises in headline numbers and latent factors, reflecting other...
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Intraday effect of news on emerging European forex markets : an event study analysis
Kočenda, Evžen; Moravcová, Michala - 2018
We analyze the impact of Eurozone/Germany and U.S. macroeconomic news announcements and the communication of the monetary policy settings of the ECB and the Fed on the forex markets of new EU members. We employ an event study methodology to analyze intra-day data from 2011-2015. Our...
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Bitcoin fluctuations and the frequency of price overreactions
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex; Oliinyk, Viktor - 2018
This paper investigates the role of the frequency of price overreactions in the cryptocurrency market in the case of BitCoin over the period 2013-2018. Specifically, it uses a static approach to detect overreactions and then carries out hypothesis testing by means of a variety of statistical...
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IMF surveillance and financial markets : a political economy analysis
Fratzscher, Marcel; Reynaud, Julien - 2010
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is in the process of re-inventing itself with bilateral and multilateral surveillance emerging as a key function. The paper analyses how IMF surveillance announcements may be influenced by political power that member countries exert at the IMF. First, we...
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The micro dynamics of macro announcements
Mittnik, Stefan; Robinzonov, Nikolay; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
We examine how regularly scheduled macroeconomic announcements for the U.S., Germany and the euro area affect the German stock market, using high-frequency, minute-by-minute DAX data. Our study extends the literature on high-frequency announcement effects in several ways. First, we account for...
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