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When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...
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Large institutional investors own an increasing share of the equity markets in the U.S. The implications of this development for financial markets are still unclear. The paper presents novel empirical evidence that ownership by large institutions predicts higher volatility and greater noise in...
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We study the effect of globalization on the volatility of wages and worker welfare in a model in which risk is … trade hurts rich-country workers, while reducing the volatility of their wages; by contrast, offshoring benefits them, while … raising the volatility of their wages. We thus formalize, but also sharply circumscribe, a common critique of globalization …
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of Cleveland's Community Salary Survey (wages and employment for specific occupations for identified firms). We find … percent of the recent the rise in the high frequency (5-year) volatility of wages …
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Using new data matching remittances and monthly payroll disbursals, we demonstrate how fluctuations in migrants' earnings in the United Arab Emirates affect their remittances. We consider three types of income fluctuations that are observable by families at home: seasonalities, weather shocks...
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We look at the effects of rainfall forecasts and realized rainfall on equilibrium agricultural wages over the course of … the agricultural production cycle. We show theoretically that a forecast of good weather can lower wages in the planting … stage, by lowering ex ante out-migration, and can exacerbate the negative impact of adverse weather on harvest-stage wages …
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We propose a model where investors hire fund managers to invest either in risky bonds or in riskless assets. Some … managers have superior information on the default probability. Looking at the past performance, investors update beliefs on … their managers and make firing decisions. This leads to career concerns which affect investment decisions, generating a …
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