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Is the stock market boom a result of the baby boom? This paper develops an overlapping generations model in which a baby boom is modeled as a high realization of a random birth rate, and the price of capital is determined endogenously by a convex cost of adjustment. A baby boom increases...
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Migration has important implications for the financial soundness of the pension system, which is an important pillar of the welfare state. While it is common sense to expect that young migrants, even if low-skilled, can help society pay the benefits to the currently elderly, it may nevertheless...
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discretion in determining the level of investment. What is the link between stock price informational efficiency and economic … efficiency? We present a model of the stock market in which: (i) managers have discretion in making investments and must be given …
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efficiency tests. Reflections on the measurement of intrinsic value provide insight into the interpretation of existing evidence … and suggestions for generating new evidence on market efficiency. This review essay on the state of knowledge about market … efficiency focuses on "A Reappraisal of the Efficiency of Financial Markets", analyzing the research areas from this perspective …
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.S., Germany and Japan choose a portfolio that includes bonds and equities from each of these countries to maximize a function of …
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This paper uses long-run real price and dividends series to investigate for the German stock market the questions asked of the U.S. market by Shiller (1989). It tries to determine in what periods and to what degree the German stock market has also possessed excess volatility' in the past...
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We lead off by discussing a number of theoretical reasons for expecting various relationships between a firm's unfunded pension liability and its market value. We then discuss our doubts about the methodology of earlier papers which studied the empirical relation between funding and market value...
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