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revised dividend discount model, error-correction model, and multi-factor return-generating model. Despite the large …
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, using data from around the time of the 1997 U.K. dividend tax reform, which removed a significant tax credit for an … important group of investors: U.K. pension funds. The tax-adjusted CAPM suggests that the impact should depend on an average of … dividend tax rates across all investors, and that U.K. pension funds should reduce their holdings of the previously tax …
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with historical averages, and the dividend/price ratio has recently reached a historic low. These developments and record … paper assesses the recent rise in the stock market using a model for the equilibrium dividend/price ratio. While economic … variables can account for most of the recent fall in the dividend/price ratio, mutual-fund inflows still have some marginal …
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During the period leading up to the global financial crisis many asset classes registered rapid price increases. This coincided with a significant rise in global liquidity. This paper attempts to determine the extent to which the rise in asset prices was influenced by developments in global...
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This paper examines the evidence for the common assertion that the volatility of emerging stock markets has increased as a result of the liberalization of markets. A range of measures suggests that there has been no generalized increase in volatility in recent years; indeed, it appears that...
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Observers have often characterized asset markets as being subject to periods of tranquility and periods of turbulence. Until recently, however, researchers were unable to produce closed-form asset pricing formulas in a model environment of time-varying risk. Some work by Abel provided us with...
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This paper applies the “market microstructure” literature to the specific features of government securities markets and draws implications for the strategy to develop government securities markets. It argues for an active role of the authorities in fostering the development of efficient...
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Traditional explanations for indirect trade carried out through an entrepôt have focused on savings in transport costs and on the role of specialized agents in processing and distribution. We provide an alternative perspective based on the possibility that entrepôts may facilitate tariff...
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Using a new daily index of social unrest, we provide systematic evidence on the negative impact of social unrest on stock market performance. An average social unrest episode in an typical country causes a 1.4 percentage point drop in cumulative abnormal returns over a two-week event window....
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We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population data from Norway's administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, during our sample period individuals earn markedly different average returns on their...
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