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industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation … reduce local corruption and stimulate firms' investment in R&D and training to this day. We identify a causal effect by …
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enforcement and political control are the most important determinants of China's corruption. Additionally, we find that corruption …This paper uses a multiple indicators and multiple causes (MIMIC) model and estimates the extent of corruption in 30 … Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2015. Treating corruption as an unobserved latent variable, the MIMIC results show that both …
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a leading emerging market, namely China, using difference-in-differences and GARCH approaches. Before the crisis China …
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structure can help predict interest rates and excess bond returns. We demonstrate that the statistical tests that have been used … slope of the yield curve are robust predictors of excess bond returns, and there is no robust and convincing evidence for …
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dynamics of U.S. Treasury yields and risk pricing. Our evidence reveals that accounting for fluctuations in both r*t and ð …*t substantially increases the accuracy of long-range interest rate forecasts, helps predict excess bond returns, improves estimates of …
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Swap lines between advanced-economy central banks are a new important part of the global financial architecture. This paper analyses their monetary policy effects from three perspectives. First, from the perspective of the central banks, it shows that the swap line mimics discount-window credit...
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daily S&P500, the US Treasury Bond Index (USTB), the S&P Green Bond Index (GREEN) and the Dow Jones (DJ) Islamic World …. The mortality rate, surprisingly, seems to have affected stock and bond prices positively with autocorrelated errors. As …
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This paper analyses persistence and non-linearities in quarterly and monthly US Treasury 10-year bond yields over the …
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The price of a safe asset reflects not only the expected discounted future cash flows but also future service flows, since retrading allows partial insurance of idiosyncratic risk in an incomplete markets setting. This lowers the issuers’ interest burden and allows the government to run a...
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prices and bond yields using fractional integration techniques. The model is estimated first over the period January 1966 … pandemic period. We find that the unit root hypothesis cannot be rejected for stock prices while for bond yields the results … differ depending on the maturity date and the specification of the error term. In general, bond yields appear to be more …
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