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Measuring alpha in the fund management industry : do female managers perform better?

Babalos, Vassilios; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; … - 2013

managers manifests itself across different quantiles. These results have important implications for fund management companies …

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Risk, return and portfolio allocation under alternative pension arrangements with imperfect financial markets

Miles, David; Černý, Aleš - 2001

This paper uses stochastic simulations on calibrated models to assess the steady state impact of different pension arrangements in an environment where financial markets are less than perfect. Surprisingly little is known about the optimal split between funded and unfunded systems when there are...

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Corporate debt and stock returns : evidence from U.S. firms during the 2020 oil crash

Arezki, Rabah; Cho, Caleb; Nguyen, Ha; Nguyen, Kate; … - 2022

This paper explores the effect of oil price fluctuations on the stock returns of U.S. oil firms using a strategy of identification through heteroskedasticity exploiting the 2020 oil crash. Results are twofold. First, we find that a decline in oil prices statistically significantly reduces stock...

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A neglected semi-stylized fact of daily stock returns

Davies, Patrick Laurie; Krämer, Walter - 2016

We plot aggregated daily stock returns with absolute value less than x against x and show empirically that this produces a typical spoon-shaped pattern which indicates a special type of asymmetry which has not been discussed before. This pattern disappears when individual returns are averaged; it...

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Cybersecurity risk

Florackis, Chris; Louca, Christodoulos; Michaely, Roni; … - 2020

We develop a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk using textual analysis of cybersecurity-risk disclosures in corporate filings. The measure successfully identifies firms extensively discussing cybersecurity risk in their 10-K, displays intuitive relations with quantitative measures of...

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Dissecting characteristics nonparametrically

Freyberger, Joachim; Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2018 - This version: July 2018

We propose a nonparametric method to study which characteristics provide incremental information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...

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Corporate acquisitions and firm-level uncertainty : domestic versus cross-border deals

Bai, Ye; Girma, Sourafel; Riaño, Alejandro - 2020

This paper studies the impact of corporate acquisitions - both domestic and cross-border - on the uncertainty faced by acquiring firms. We use data for UK publicly-listed firms from 2004 to 2017 and employ a matching estimator combined with difference-in-differences to control for the endogenous...

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Stagflationary stock returns

Knox, Ben; Timmer, Yannick - 2024 - This version: July 16, 2024

We study investors' perceptions of inflation through the lens of a high-frequency event study and document that they have a stagflationary view of the world. In response to higher-than-expected inflation, investors expect firms' nominal cash flows to remain stagnant while discount rates...

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The effect of adversity on process innovations and managerial incentives

Dostie, Benoît; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2009

This paper asks whether adversity spurs the introduction of process innovations and increases the use of managerial incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous variation in adversity arising from increased border...

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Experience, innovation and productivity : empirical evidence from Italy's slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - 2010

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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