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Using a panel of 1122 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange over the period of 1981 to 2009, endogenous switching regression models (SRM) incorporating a predicted corporate efficiency index are estimated in this paper in an effort to clarify the role of cash flow in examining the impact...
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This paper is concerned with empirical and theoretical basis of the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH). The paper begins with an overview of the statistical properties of asset returns at different frequencies (daily, weekly and monthly), and considers the evidence on return predictability, risk...
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experimentally the behavioral forces stipulated in their theory. The evidence confirms the model's prediction that there is a …
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unique equilibrium, which is separating. Higher-quality sellers post higher prices, so price signals quality. The arrival … higher continuation values. For some parameter values, higher-quality sellers post the full-information price; for other … values these sellers have to post a higher price to keep lower-quality sellers from mimicking them. In an extension, we show …
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This paper examines the legal and policy implications of information asymmetry on foreign domestic workers employed under the Kafala sponsorship system in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Drawing from ethnographic and field-based observations in large GCC migrant destinations -...
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misperceptions of probability drive the favorite-longshot bias, as suggested by Prospect Theory. -- Pricing under risk ; probability …
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This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment to examine the relationship between the price and saliency of health …
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By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer new insights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreign risky assets, or "home bias", from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribes the "bias" to...
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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side by increasing the extent or the price of the service. In the market for taxi rides, our moral hazard manipulation …
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