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Testing CAPM with a Large Number of Assets
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
This paper is concerned with testing the time series implications of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) due to … evidence against Sharpe-Lintner CAPM is found mainly during the recent financial crisis. Furthermore, a strong negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107698
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Wage Premia for Newly Hired Employees : Theory and Evidence
Kampkötter, Patrick - 2011
We investigate wage differences between newly hired and incumbent employees. We show in a formal model that when employees care for wages as well as match-specific utility, incumbents earn less than new recruits if and only if firm-specific human capital is not too important. The existence and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129084
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When the Market Drives You Crazy : Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents
Giulietti, Corrado - 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 -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912252
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141228
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Trading While Sleepy? Circadian Mismatch and Excess Volatility in a Global Experimental Asset Market
Dickinson, David L. - 2017
Traders in global markets operate at different local times-of-day. Suboptimal times-of-day may produce sleepiness due to daily variations in sleep/wake patterns and possibly also increased accumulation of hours awake. Global asset markets imply significantly increased heterogeneity in circadian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947730
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Returns to Childbirth Technologies : Evidence from Preterm Births
Daysal, N. Meltem - 2014
We investigate the impact of obstetrician supervision, as opposed to midwife supervision, on the short-term health of low-risk newborns. We exploit a unique policy rule in the Netherlands that creates a large discontinuity in the probability of a low-risk birth being attended by an obstetrician...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061603
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Less Myth, More Measurement : Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike
Lin, Carl - 2012
In the book Myth and Measurement, Card and Krueger (1995) examine the economic impact of the 1989 minimum wage hike on the welfare of 110 firms which employ a disproportionate number of minimum-wage workers. Their results show mixed evidence that excess returns associated with news about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112058
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Volatility and Growth : Governments are Key
Jetter, Michael - 2013
paper offers a solution to this disagreement, suggesting that volatility carries a positive direct effect, but also a … volatility is then ambiguous. The paper reveals the underlying endogeneity of government size in a balanced panel of 95 countries … increase of volatility lowers growth by up to 0.57 percentage points in a democracy, but raises growth by 1.74 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071293
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Growth, Volatility and Political Instability : Non-Linear Time-Series Evidence for Argentina, 1896-2000
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
What is the relationship between economic growth and its volatility? Does political instability affect growth directly … or indirectly, through volatility? This paper tries to answer such questions using a power-ARCH framework with annual … and legislative changes) has an indirect (through volatility) negative impact. We also find preliminary support for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766848
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Public Wages, Public Employment, and Business Cycle Volatility : Evidence from U.S. Metro Areas
A. Reicher, Claire - 2016
business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … positively with business cycle volatility, hinting at a destabilizing effect of public wages. To explain these relationships, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989839