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Macro risks and the term structure of interest rates
Bekaert, Geert; Engstrom, Eric; Ermolov, Andrey - In: Journal of financial economics 141 (2021) 2, pp. 479-504
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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?
Kolko, Jed - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463443
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When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?
Ju, Jiandong - 2008
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464662
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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization
Ju, Jiandong - 2007
the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465505
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Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality
Jiao, Yang - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453661
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Risk, Uncertainty and Monetary Policy
Bekaert, Geert - 2010
stance. When decomposing the VIX into two components, a proxy for risk aversion and expected stock market volatility … ("uncertainty"), we find that a lax monetary policy decreases both risk aversion and uncertainty, with the former effect being …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462259
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How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?
Kim, Woochan - 2008
Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464925
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Asymmetric Volatility and Risk in Equity Markets
Bekaert, Geert - 1997
and to examine two potential explanations of the asymmetry: leverage effects and time-varying risk premiums. Our empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472796
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The Time Variation of Risk and Return in Foreign Exchange Markets : A General Equilibrium Perspective
Bekaert, Geert - 1994
and conditional heteroskedasticity of exchange rates and on the behavior of foreign exchange risk premiums. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474097
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Macro Risks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Bekaert, Geert - 2016
-varying) non-Gaussian features of the structural shocks to estimate "macro risk factors" for supply and demand shocks that drive … the good demand variance risk factor. In contrast, the risk factors driving bad variance for both supply and demand shocks … the variation in yields, bond risk premiums and the term premium. While overall bond risk premiums are counter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455841