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high frequency price movements in the stock market. In fact, we know of no framework that can satisfactorily account for …
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a large empirical literature from the 1950's and 60's, that it is necessary to distinguish the response of price to an … two models that can potentially explain these findings. Both break the link between price and marginal cost, thereby … second is driven by firms pricing to limit non-price competition within their market …
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transitory neutral technology shocks. When calibrated to the capital price observations, the model does well at accounting for …
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Using a comprehensive sample of trades by Schedule 13D filers, who possess valuable private information when they accumulate stocks of targeted companies, this paper studies whether several liquidity measures reveal the presence of informed trading. The evidence suggests that when Schedule 13D...
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India has a multitude of environmental regulations but a history of poor enforcement. Between 1996 and 2004, India … establishments, with price elasticities similar to those found in the US. In addition, higher coal prices are associated with lower …
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in a bivariate EGARCH model. We believe that stock price aggregation in this previous research resulted in a loss of …
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If firms purchase capital up to the point where there is no further marginal benefit, and the firms' securities are equal in value to the capital, then the market value of securities measures the quantity of capital. I explore the implications of this hypothesis using data from U.S. non-farm,...
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We study theoretically and empirically the relationship between investor beliefs, ownership dispersion and stock returns. We find that high dispersion, measured by high breadth or low Herfindahl index, forecasts returns positively for large stocks, as in Chen, Hong and Stein (2002), but...
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We find that among stocks dominated by retail investors, the lottery anomaly is amplified by high investor attention (proxied by high analyst coverage, salient earnings surprises, or recency of extreme positive returns) and intense social interactions (proxied by Facebook social connectedness or...
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In this paper, we test the random walk hypothesis for weekly stock market returns by comparing variance estimators derived from data sampled at different frequencies. The random walk model is strongly rejected for the entire sample period (1962-1985) and for all sub-periods for a variety of...
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