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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740268
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BRICS joint financial architecture : the New Development Bank
Silva, Luciana Acioly da - 2019
institutions established after the Second World War, NDB still faces important challenges to meet those goals. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061815
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Self-serving bias and tax morale
Blaufus, Kay; Braune, Matthias; Hundsdoerfer, Jochen; … - 2014 - This version: September 2014
tax evasion is subject to a self-serving bias. We find that tax morale is egoistically biased: Subjects with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403224
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Can education compensate the effect of population aging on macroeconomic performance? : evidence from panel data
Kotschy, Rainer; Sunde, Uwe - 2018
This paper investigates the consequences of population aging and of changes in the education composition of the population for macroeconomic performance. Estimation results from a theoretically founded empirical framework show that aging as well as the education composition of the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930455
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Information transmission between banks and the market for corporate control
Bittner, Christian; Fecht, Falko; Pala, Melissa; Saidi, … - 2022
This paper provides evidence of deliberate private-information disclosure within banks’ international business networks. Using supervisory trade-level data, we show that banks with closer ties to a target advisor in a takeover buy more stocks of the target firm prior to the deal announcement,...
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OTC discount
Roure, Calebe de; Mönch, Emanuel; Pelizzon, Loriana; … - 2019
We study price dispersion and venue choice in the interdealer market for German sovereign bonds, where an exchange and over-the-counter segments coexist. We show that 85% of OTC traded prices are favorable with respect to exchange quotes, indicating the prevalence of an OTC discount. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012125222
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Mandatory financial information disclosure and credit ratings
Vanhaverbeke, Steven; Balsmeier, Benjamin; Doherr, Thorsten - 2022
When firms are forced to publicly disclose financial information, credit rating agencies are supposed to improve their risk assessments. Theory predicts such an information quality effect but also an adverse reputational concerns effect because credit analysts may become increasingly concerned...
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Flying under the radar : the effects of short-sale disclosure rules on investor behavior and stock prices
Jank, Stephan; Roling, Christoph; Smajlbegovic, Esad - 2016
This paper analyzes how newly introduced transparency requirements for short positions affect investors' behavior and security prices. Employing a unique data set, which contains both public positions above and confidential positions below the regulatory disclosure threshold, we offer several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500150
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Foreign exchange interventions and their impact on expectations : evidence from the USD/ILS options market
Hertrich, Markus; Nathan, Daniel - 2022
Using confidential daily data, we analyse how the intervention episode of the Bank of Israel (BOI) from 2013 to 2019 has affected the foreign value of the Israeli new shekel (ILS) and the expectations about its future value. We find that interventions amounting to US dollar (USD) 1 billion are...
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Fire buys of central bank collateral assets
Roure, Calebe de - 2017
In times of financial distress, central banks provide unlimited liquidity to avoid fire sales. In response, banks raise their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587096