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Witching days and abnormal profits in the US stock market
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex - 2021
detected anomalies give rise to profit opportunities by applying a trading simulation approach. The results suggest the … presence of the anomaly in daily returns on witching days which can be exploited by means of suitably designed trading …
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Inside the mind of a stock market crash
Giglio, Stefano; Maggiori, Matteo; Stroebel, Johannes; … - 2020 - First draft: April 4th 2020, this draft: May 21, 2020
We analyze how investor expectations about economic growth and stock returns changed during the February-March 2020 stock market crash induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as during the subsequent partial stock market recovery. We surveyed retail investors who are clients of Vanguard at...
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Seven pitfalls of technical analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex - 2023
This paper examines the main drawbacks of technical analysis. Although this is widely used by practitioners, from an academic perspective it can only be seen as a form of "voodoo finance". In particular, it runs into the following pitfalls: Subjectivity; Doubtful assumptions; Unjustified...
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Treasury auctions and secondary market dynamics : an analysis based on the MTS market for Italy
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015
Auctions of government bonds are the main allotment method used by the Treasury of advanced economies. Previous research has found that auctions have an influence on the market yield days before they take place, and underpricing is usually spotted when their outcome is compared with...
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Embedded supervision : how to build regulation into decentralised finance
Auer, Raphael A. - 2022
The emergence of so-called "decentralised finance" (DeFi) and a shadow financial system of cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the same rules. This paper makes the case for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206072
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It's what you say and what you buy : a holistic evaluation of the corporate credit facilities
Boyarchenko, Nina; Kovner, Anna; Shachar, Or - 2020
We evaluate the impact of the Federal Reserve corporate credit facilities (PMCCF and SMCCF). A third of the positive effect on prices and liquidity occurred on the announcement date. We document immediate pass through into primary markets, particularly for eligible issuers. Improvements continue...
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The effects of physical and transition climate risk on stock markets : some multi-country evidence
Albanese, Marina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colella, Ida; … - 2024
This paper examines the impact of transition and physical climate risk on stock markets using, for the first time in this context, the annual CCPI index calculated by Germanwatch as well as its components (in addition to a wide range of other indices) for 48 countries from 2007 to 2023....
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Climate physical risk and Asian stock market returns
Albanese, Marina; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Colella, Ida; … - 2024
This study provides new evidence on the impact of climate physical risk (as measured by the Global Climate Risk Index (CRI) from Germanwatch) on stock market returns. Specifically, a panel model with fixed effects is estimated using annual data from 2007 to 2021 for a set of 65 countries as well...
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Carbon default swap : disentangling the exposure to carbon risk through CDS
Blasberg, Alexander; Kiesel, Rüdiger; Taschini, Luca - 2022
Using Credit Default Swap spreads, we construct a forward-looking, market-implied carbon risk factor and show that carbon risk affects firms' credit spread. The effect is larger for European than North American firms and varies substantially across industries, suggesting the market recognises...
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Brokering votes with information spread via social networks
Duarte, Raúl; Finan, Frederico S.; Larreguy, Horacio; … - 2024
Politicians rely on political brokers to buy votes throughout much of the developing world. We investigate how social … networks facilitate these vote-buying exchanges. Our conceptual framework suggests brokers should be particularly well … should recruit brokers who are central among non-copartisans. We combine village network data from brokers and citizens with …
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