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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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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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Many organizations provide retirement planning seminars to their employees as a benefit to help them make better informed retirement decisions. This study examines the participants in 85 seminars conducted by five companies in 2008 and 2009 to determine how much learning takes place and whether...
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We quantify the contribution of conferences to publication success of more than 4,000 papers presented at three leading … economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. We show a positive link between conference presentation and the publishing … probability in high-quality journals. Participating in major conferences is also associated with improved metrics for other …
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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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This paper documents a set of new stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate financial roots provide a...
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, potential impending changes in the Asian monetary and exchange rate regimes in Asia are discussed. Projecting the growth of the … Chinese economy into the future, the weight of the RMB in the financial markets will increase globally as well as in Asia …
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this move because the formation of an economic bloc in Asia will have a negative economic impact on the non- Asian …
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We develop analytic pricing models for options on averages by means of a state-space expansion method. These models augment the class of Asian options to markets where the underlying traded variable follows a mean-reverting process. The approach builds from the digital Asian option on the...
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. Lastly, we argue that the substantial shift of US apparel imports away from Asia in favor of Mexico and the Caribbean during …
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