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correlations with developed countries' equity markets significantly reduces the unconditional portfolio risk of a world investor …
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We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...
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Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...
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the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
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Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...
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future? The usual risk factors are unable to explain the time-series variation in excess returns. In addition, our evidence … of futures prices. We find that the tactical strategies provide higher average returns and lower risk than a long …
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We explore the different factors that drive expected returns in world markets. Our research offers two innovations …. First, the introduction of the Euro currency unit greatly reduces the complexity of including foreign exchange risk in asset … currency risk factors. Second, when combining the currency factors with a group of economic factors, we measure the incremental …
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Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …
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We introduce a new, market-based and forward looking measure of political risk derived from the yield spread between a … factors: global economic conditions, country-specific economic factors, liquidity of the country's bond, and political risk …. We then extract the part of the sovereign spread that is due to political risk, making use of political risk ratings. In …
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offer to help students prepare for the world of work,' and an accompanying survey includes information on school …
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