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This article investigates whether, and how, CEO educational background affects Chinese corporate risk-taking. Using a sample of 4681 firm-year observations from 2012 to 2020, we find that CEO educational background is negatively associated with corporate risk-taking. The nonlinear quadratic...
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, which seeks to smooth consumption over the lifecycle. We explain how two psychological biases-exponential growth bias and … present bias-can lead to a difference between the initial value of a pension contribution and its present value, such a …
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Technological progress in recent years has made new methods available for making forecasts in a variety of areas. We examine the success of ex-ante stock market forecasts of three major stock market indices, i.e., the German Stock Market Index (DAX), the Dow Jones Industrial Index (DJI), and the...
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behavioural biases such as representativeness, self-serving, overconfidence, loss aversion, and hindsight bias. Using data … overconfidence bias are positively related to financial literacy. Furthermore, some biases exhibit a stronger quantitative … relationship with financial literacy than others. For example, hindsight bias displays the strongest link to financial literacy …
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There are many real-world situations in which complex interacting forces are best described by a series of equations. Traditional regression approaches to these situations involve modeling and estimating each individual equation (producing estimates of "partial derivatives") and then solving the...
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derive the asymptotic hedging error for options under a generalised jump-diffusion model with kernel bias, which nests a …
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Observed international diversification implies an investment home bias (IHB). Can bivariate preferences with a local …
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variables bias. This study shows that the proposed solution that is often cited in the real estate economics literature does not …
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stage one is positive by using log-linear regression. Secondly, we correct the bias that results from the transformation … apply the smearing technique in order to correct this bias. An alternative means of implementing the PBS approach is to use … almost completely eliminates the bias; (3) NLLS gives biased option values, but the bias is less severe than with standard …
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This paper used Reiterative Truncated Projected Least Squares (RTPLS) to estimate the effects on life expectancy of an additional dollar of insurance premiums for 43 countries. The data shows a clear positive relationship between insurance and life expectancy with insurance premiums increasing...
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