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Implementing the panel event study
Clarke, Damian; Tapia Schythe, Kathya - 2020
Many studies estimate the impact of exposure to some quasi-experimental policy or event using a panel event study design. These models, as a generalized extension of 'difference-in-differences' or two-way fixed effect models, allow for dynamic lags and leads to the event of interest to be...
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The value relevance of top executive departures : evidence from the Netherlands
Cools, Cornelis (contributor); Praag, Mirjam van (contributor) - 2007
On theoretical grounds, monitoring of top executives by the (supervisory) board is expected to be value relevant. The empirical evidence is ambiguous and we analyze three non-competing explanations for this ambiguity: (i) The positive effect on firm value of board monitoring is hidden in stock...
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When the market drives you crazy : stock market returns and fatal car accidents
Guilietti, Corrado; Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2018
The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...
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Predictability of asset returns and the efficient market hypothesis
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2010
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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Can superstition create a self-fulfilling prophecy? : school outcomes of Dragon children of China
Mocan, Naci; Yu, Han - 2020
three micro data sets from China we show that those born in a Dragon year are more likely to have a college education, and …
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Relationship between the real estate sector and the stock market in Chinese provinces
Di, Zeyu; Heshmati, Almas; Liu, Sijia - 2022
In China, real estate and the stock market are the two main markets favored by both individual and institutional … stock market and real estate sector's trading volumes in 31 provinces of China. Its empirical results are based on panel …
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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China : evidence from new micro data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …
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Competition and innovation : the breakup of IG Farben
Poege, Felix - 2022
The relationship between competition and innovation is difficult to disentangle, as exogenous variation in market structure is rare. The 1952 breakup of Germany's leading chemical company, IG Farben, represents such a disruption. After the Second World War, the Allies occupying Germany imposed...
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Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation : announcement and implementation effects
Blundell, Richard W.; Francesconi, Marco; Klaauw, … - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
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Child penalty in Russia: evidence from an event study
Lebedinski, Lara; Perugini, Cristiano; Vladisavljević, … - 2020
Despite years of women's progress toward equality, gender disparities in the labour market persist, and parenthood has been identified as one of its key drivers. In this paper we investigate the child penalty in Russia by using longitudinal data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey...
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