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Stochastic dominance efficiency analysis of diversified portfolios : classification, comparison and refinements
Lizyayev, Andrey - 2010
For more than three decades, empirical analysis of stochastic dominance was restricted to settings with mutually exclusive choice alternatives. In recent years, a number of methods for testing efficiency of diversified portfolios have emerged, which can be classified into three main categories:...
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Stock selection strategies in emerging markets
Hart, Jaap van; Slagter, Erica; Dijk, Dick van - 2001
Recent empirical evidence suggests that value and momentum strategies generate significantexcess returns in emerging markets. We confirm these results and extend them in severaldirections. First, we examine a broader range of stock selection strategies, including strategiesbased on analysts'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313928
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Recent developments in financial economics and econometrics : an overview
Chang, Chia-Lin; Allen, David E.; McAleer, Michael - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724823
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Private and public risk sharing in the Euro area
Cimadomo, Jacopo; Furtuna, Oana; Giuliodori, Massimo M. - 2017 - This version: 11 July 2017
This paper investigates the contribution of private and public channels for consumption risk sharing in the EMU over the period 1999-2015. In particular, we explore the role of financial integration versus international financial assistance for private consumption smoothing in this set of...
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How banks respond to distress : shifting risks in Europe's banking union
Mink, Mark; Ramcharan, Rodney; Lelyveld, Iman van - 2020
This paper uses granular bond portfolio data to study how banking systems across the European Union (EU) adjust their asset holdings in response to regulatory solvency shocks. We also study the impact of these shocks at financial intermediaries on the prices of bonds in their portfolio. Despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161046
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Why do policy makers stick to inefficient decisions?
Dur, Robert A. J. - 1999 - This draft: June 1999
This paper offers an explanation for why policy makers stick to inefficient policy decisions. I argue that repealing a policy is a bad signal to voters about the policy maker's competence if voters do not have complete knowledge about the effects of implemented policies. I derive the optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301144
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Do elections lead to informed public decisions?
Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - 2003
and implement public policies, we show that examination takes place in spite of, rather than thanks to, elections …. Elections are needed as a carrot and a stick to motivate politicians, yet politicians who are overly interested in re …
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Does campaign finance imply political favors?
Claessens, Stijn; Feijen, Erik; Laeven, Luc - 2006
This paper provides empirical evidence that campaign contributions arestrongly associated with market expectations of future firm-specific political favors,including preferential access to external financing. Using a novel dataset, we find thatfirms in Brazil providing contributions in the 1998...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348347
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How polarization and political instability affect learning through experimentation
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2001
elections (exogenous elections) andthe decision is salient and the election outcome depends on it (endogenous elections).We show …. Furthermore, in contrast to the existing literature, wedemonstrate that, when elections are exogenous, polarization between … political parties does not always decreaseactive learning. In the case with endogenous elections we find that electoral concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316875
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The optimal degree of polarization
Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2001
In the literature on electoral politics full convergence of policy platforms is usually regarded as socially optimal. Thereason is that risk-averse voters prefer a sure middle-of-the-road policy to a lottery of two extremes with the sameexpectation. In this paper we study the normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317465