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Do firms gain from managerial overconfidence? : the role of severance pay
Graziano, Clara; Luporini, Annalisa - 2022
We analyze the effects of optimism and overconfidence when the manager's compensation package includes severance pay and the CEO has bargaining power. We find that optimism does not affect incentive pay but increases severance pay with a negative effect on profit. Overconfidence, on the...
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A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2022
This paper empirically links the efficiency and performance assessment of the general government, proxied by efficiency scores, to the trust in government. Government spending efficiency scores are first computed via data envelopment analysis (DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental...
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An empirical analysis of legal insider trading in the Netherlands
Degryse, Hans; Jong, Frank de; Lefebvre, Jérémie - 2009
In this paper, we employ a registry of legal insider trading for Dutch listed firms to investigate the information content of trades by corporate insiders. Using a standard event-study methodology, we examine short-term stock price behavior around trades. We find that purchases are followed by...
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Terrorist attacks and financial markets
Bonekamp, Bas; Veen, Tom van - 2017
) and Berlin(2016) on the stock indices of the USA (S&P), Japan (NIKKEI), Germany (DAX), Spain (IBEX), UK (FTSE), France …
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Have Capital Market Anomalies Worldwide Attenuated in the Recent Era of High Liquidity and Trading Activity?
Auer, Benjamin R.; Rottmann, Horst - 2018
We revisit and extend the study by Chordia et al. (2014) which documents that, in recent years, increased liquidity has significantly decreased exploitable returns of capital market anomalies in the US. Using a novel international dataset of arbitrage portfolio returns for four well-known...
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The offshore renminbi exchange rate : microstructure and links to the onshore market
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Rime, Dagfinn - 2014
The offshore renminbi (CNH) exchange rate is the exchange rate of the Chinese currency transacted outside China. We study the CNH exchange rate dynamics and its links with onshore exchange rates. Using a specialized microstructure dataset, we find that CNH is significantly affected by its order...
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The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock markets, CDS and economic activity : time-varying evidence from the US and Europe
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Catik, A. Nazif; Helmi, … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the five European countries (the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain) which have been most affected. The sample period covers the dates from the first confirmed COVID-19 cases in...
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The international transmission of monetary policy
Buch, Claudia M.; Bussière, Matthieu; Goldberg, Linda S.; … - 2018
transmission of monetary policies of the U.S., euro area, Japan, and United Kingdom. Two other studies use international data with …
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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany
Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016
Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...
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Joint confidence sets for structural impulse responses
Inoue, Atsushi; Kilian, Lutz - 2016
bootstrap, allowing the construction of asymptotically valid joint confidence sets for any subset of structural impulse … represent the joint confidence sets in the form of "shotgun plots" rather than joint confidence bands for impulse response … functions. Several empirical examples demonstrate that this approach not only conveys the same information as confidence bands …
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