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Playing Favorites : How Firms Prevent the Revelation of Bad News
Cohen, Lauren - 2013
We explore a subtle but important mechanism through which firms can control information flow to the markets. We find that firms that “cast” their conference calls by disproportionately calling on bullish analysts tend to underperform in the future. Firms that call on more favorable analysts...
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Gender Representation in Economics Across Topics and Time : Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute
Chari, Anusha - 2017
We document the representation of female economists on the conference programs at the NBER Summer Institute from 2001-2016. Over the period from 2013-2016, women made up 20.6 percent of all authors on scheduled papers. However, there was large dispersion across programs, with the share of female...
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Tips and Tells from Managers : How Analysts and the Market Read between the Lines of Conference Calls
Druz, Marina - 2015
Stock prices react significantly to the tone (negativity of words) managers use on earnings conference calls. This reaction reflects reasonably rational use of information. “Tone surprise” – the residual when negativity in managerial tone is regressed on the firm's recent economic...
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U.S. Trade Policy and Cigarette Smoking in Asia
Chaloupka, Frank J.; Laixuthai, Adit - 2021
During the 1980's and early 1990's, the cigarette markets in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand were opened to U.S. cigarettes through actions taken under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act and its subsequent amendments. Using pooled annual time-series data from ten Asian countries, the...
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Trade and Production Networks of U.S. Mncs and Exports by Their Asian Affiliates
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021
Network connections within MNCs seem to improve export market shares for Asian affiliates of those MNCs. In particular, Asian affiliates of U.S. MNCs export more to markets where their parent firms' exports to affiliates are larger, and less to markets where their parent firms export more to...
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Currency and Financial Crises of the 1990s and 2000s
Razin, Assaf - 2011
We survey three distinct types of financial crises which took place in the 1990s and the 2000s: 1) the credit implosion leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy economies with fixed exchange rate regimes of...
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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
Campello, Murillo - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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Why Has the Yen Failed to Become a Dominant Invoicing Currency in Asia? A Firm-Level Analysis of Japanese Exporters' Invoicing Behavior
Ito, Takatoshi - 2010
the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an … exports to advanced countries, and second, the prevalence of US dollar invoicing in Japanese exports to East Asia even though … Japanese firms grew; and (2) the production/trade structure of Japanese electronics companies in Asia in which final products …
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The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth
Fogel, Robert W. - 2012
spectacular advances of the economies of China, India, and Southeast Asia. Section 1 reviews the debate over the sources of … the new recognition among Western economists that the sustained, very rapid growth in China and Southeast Asia was …
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The Determinants and Long-Term Projections of Saving Rates in Developing Asia
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2011
In this paper, we present data on trends over time in domestic saving rates in twelve economies in developing Asia … Asia have, in general, been high and rising but that there have been substantial differences from economy to economy and … rates in developing Asia for the 2011-2030 period based on our estimation results and find that the domestic saving rate in …
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