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paper is that a highly short-sighted investment horizon is required for the historical equity premium to be explained by … loss aversion, while reasonable values for disappointment aversion are found also for long investment horizons. So, stocks …
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This paper analyses the determinants of the natural rate of interest in a non-linear model where agents are uncertain over both future technology growth and the future course of monetary policy. I show that the real natural rate can be affected by sizable uncertainty premia, including premia...
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We use cross-country microdata to analyse the risk taking of households in Europe and the US. Concerning the extensive … inside Europe we document substantial differences. Furthermore, average risk aversion is strongly correlated with the share … explainable by household characteristics as well as differences in risk aversion and a remainder. We employ the unexplained part …
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and the 2010-2012 European sovereign crisis. This effect is attenuated for banks with lower credit risk, sounder capital …
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This research addresses whether geographic diversification provides benefits over industry diversification. In the absence of constraints, no empirical evidence is found to support the argument that country diversification is superior. With short-selling constraints, however, the geographic...
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standarddeviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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We present evidence that referenda have a significant, detrimental outcome on investment. Employing an unsupervised … policy-related uncertainty. Examining the relationship of these indices with investment on a longitudinal panel of 3 … uncertainty to investment. Our preferred specification suggests that a one standard-deviation increase in Brexit uncertainty …
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structural vector autoregression model to study the relationship between different sources of uncertainty and investment in … machinery and equipment as a proxy for business investment. We document strong heterogeneity and asymmetries in the relationship … between investment and uncertainty across and within countries. For example, while investment in France, Italy and Spain …
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This paper focuses on the role of real exchange rate volatility as a driver of portfolio home bias, and in particular as an explanation for differences in home bias across financial assets. We present a Markowitz-type portfolio selection model in which real exchange rate volatility induces a...
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I study rollover risk in the wholesale funding market when intermediaries can hold liquidity ex-ante and are subject to …
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