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Skewness expectations and portfolio choice
Drerup, Tilman H.; Wibral, Matthias; Zimpelmann, Christian - 2022
Many models of investor behavior predict that investors prefer assets that they believe to have positively skewed return distributions. We provide a direct test of this prediction in a representative sample of the Dutch population. Using individual-level data on return expectations for a broad...
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Relationship between the real estate sector and the stock market in Chinese provinces
Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022
stock market and real estate sector's trading volumes in 31 provinces of China. Its empirical results are based on panel … data from 2000 to 2016. Various panel unit root, co-integration, and model specification and estimation tests are carried … out. The panel mean group is found to be the most suitable method for the analysis. The study finds that the main …
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Die Nachhaltigkeit von geförderten Existenzgründungen aus Arbeitslosigkeit : eine Bilanz nach fünf Jahren
Caliendo, Marco (contributor); Künn, Steffen (contributor);  … - 2008
Die Ich-AG (Existenzgründungszuschuss) war eines der zentralen Instrumente, das im Rahmen der "Hartz-Reformen" in den arbeitsmarktpolitischen Kanon aufgenommen wurde. Zusammen mit dem bereits seit langem bekannten Überbrückungsgeld wurden damit zwischen 2003 und 2006 mehr als eine Million...
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Job separations and informality in the Russian labor market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2011
In the years 2003-2008 the Russian economy experienced a period of strong and sustained growth, which was accompanied by large worker turnover and rising informality. We investigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on job separators (displaced workers and quitters) in...
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Say pays! : shareholder voice and firm performance
Cuñat, Vicente; Giné, Mireia; Guadalupe, Maria - 2014
This paper estimates the effects of Say-on-Pay (SoP); a policy that increases shareholder "voice" by providing shareholders with a regular vote on executive pay. We apply a regression discontinuity design to the votes on shareholder-sponsored SoP proposals. Adopting SoP leads to large increases...
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Labor and the market value of the firm
Merz, Monika (contributor); Yashiv, Eran (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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Household entrepreneurship and social networks : panel data evidence from Vietnam
Nguyen Huu Chi; Nordman, Christophe J. - 2017
Using a unique panel of household businesses for Vietnam, this paper sheds light on the links between households' and …
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Does class size matter for school tracking outcomes after elementary school? : quasi-experimental evidence using administrative panel data from Germany
Argaw, Bethlehem A.; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2017
We use administrative panel data on about a quarter of a million students in the German state of Hesse to estimate the …
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Short-run distributional effects of public education transfers to tertiary education students in seven European countries
Callan, Tim (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2008
Direct provision of public services can alter the balance of resources across income groups. We focus on the issues arising when taking account of the impact of publicly provided education services across the income distribution. We combine OECD information on spending per student in particular...
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Wage returns to university disciplines in Greece : are Greek higher education degrees Trojan horses?
Livanos, Ilias; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2009
This paper examines the wage returns to qualifications and academic disciplines in the Greek labour market. Exploring wage responsiveness across various degree subjects in Greece is interesting, as it is characterised by high levels of graduate unemployment, which vary considerably by field of...
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