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Debt recovery in firm liquidations : do liquidation trustees matter?
Cepec, Jaka; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2016
Insolvency systems play a crucial role in protection of creditor rights, yet micro-level empirical evidence on the … functioning of insolvency regimes worldwide is sparse. We investigate whether creditors' recovery of outstanding claims, a measure … of ex-post efficiency of an insolvency regime, depends on the characteristics of the trustee delegated the administration …
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Noise vs. news in equity returns
Chirinko, Robert S. (contributor); Foad, Hisham (contributor) - 2006
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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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Macro news and stock returns in the euro Area : a VAR-GARCH-in-means analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Spagnolo, Fabio; Spagnolo, Nicola - 2014
This paper analyses the effects of newspaper coverage of macro news on stock returns in eight countries belonging to the euro area (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) using daily data for the period 1994 - 2013. The econometric analysis is based on the...
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The impact of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic
Abakah, Emmanuel Joel Aikins; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of containment measures and monetary and fiscal responses on US financial markets during the Covid-19 pandemic. More specifically, it applies fractional integration methods to analyse their impact on the daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P...
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Sustainable stocks and the Russian war on Ukraine : an event study in Europe
Kick, Andreas; Rottmann, Horst - 2022
The popularity of sustainable investments is unbroken and attracts investors and researchers alike. Modelling the properties of such 'green' firms, Pástor, Stambaugh, and Taylor 2021 consider a hedge against climate risks in their theoretical model. Likewise, it could be assumed that companies...
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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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Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news
Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2020
Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...
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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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