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We analyse the determinants of unemployment persistence in four OECDcountries byestimating a structural Bayesian VAR with an informative priorbased on an insiders/outsiders model. We explicitly insert unemployment ben-efits and labour taxes so that our identification is not affected by the Faust...
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date. The construction of these measures is based on the theory of comonotonicity. Both types of herd behavior indices are …
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This paper provides an empirical description of the relationshipbetween the trading system operated by a stockexchange and the transaction costs faced by heterogeneous investors who use the exchange. Therecent introduction ofSETS in the London Stock Exchange provides an excellent opportunity...
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forwardforeign exchange prices from interest parity forward prices. Second, the role oftransaction costs in one-way arbitrage …-based interest parity has not been examined.Applying the Fletcher and Taylor approach to one-way arbitrage-based interest parity … implied by one-way arbitrage, does not diminish therole of transaction costs; (ii) the varjances of the estimated deviations …
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In this paper we consider two cases of pairs trading strategies: a conditional statistical arbitrage method and an … implicit statistical arbitrage method. We use a simulation-based Bayesian procedure for predicting stable ratios, defined in a …
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We study risk and return properties of capital structure arbitrage strategies aiming to profit from temporal mispricing … between equity and credit default swaps (CDSs) of companies. We find that capital structure arbitrage provides an attractive … annualized return of 24.35% on invested capital. The arbitrage returns are higher for lower rated companies and surprisingly they …
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