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Private and public control of management

Angelucci, Charles; Han, Martijn A. - 2012

This paper investigates the design of a leniency policy to fight corporate crime. We explicitly take into account the agency problem within the firm. We model this through a three-tier hierarchy: authority, shareholder, and manager. The manager may breach the law and report evidence to the...

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Time varying hierarchical archimedean copulae

Härdle, Wolfgang; Okhrin, Ostap; Okhrin, Yarema - 2010

There is increasing demand for models of time-varying and non-Gaussian dependencies for mul- tivariate time-series. Available models suffer from the curse of dimensionality or restrictive assumptions on the parameters and the distribution. A promising class of models are the hierarchical...

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The labor share : a review of theory and evidence

Schneider, Dorothee - 2011

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On the timing of climate agreements

Schmidt, Robert C.; Strausz, Roland - 2014

A central issue in climate policy is the question whether long-term targets for green- house gas emissions should be adopted. This paper analyzes strategic effects related to the timing of such commitments. Using a two-country model, we identify a redistributive effect that undermines long-term...

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Can crop yield risk be globally diversified?

Liu, Xiaoliang; Xu, Wei; Odening, Martin - 2011

In 2007 and 2008 world food markets observed a significant price boom. Crop failures simultaneously occurring in some … of the world's major production regions have been quoted as one factor among others for the price boom. Against this …

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Volatility of price indices for heterogeneous goods

Bocart, Fabian Y. R. P.; Hafner, Christian M. - 2012

Price indices for heterogenous goods such as real estate or fine art constitute crucial information for institutional or private investors considering alternative investments in times of financial markets turmoil. Classical mean-variance analysis of alternative investments has been hampered by...

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Nonlinear modeling of target leverage with latent determinant variables : new evidence on the trade-off theory

Sabiwalsky, Ralf (contributor) - 2008

The trade-off theory on capital structure is tested by modelling the capital structure target as the solution to a … determinants. In contrast, the framework applied here allows for a direct test: results confirm the trade-off theory for small and … medium-sized firms, but not for large firms. -- Capital structure ; nonlinear ; latent variables ; trade-off theory …

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Are correlations constant over time? : application of the CC-TRIGt-test to return series from different asset classes

Fischer, Matthias (contributor) - 2007

A new test for constant correlation is proposed. Based on the bivariate Student-t distribution, this test is derived as Lagrange multiplier (LM) test. Whereas most of the traditional tests (e.g. Jennrich, 1970, Tang, 1995 and Goetzmann, Li & Rouwenhorst, 2005) specify the unknown correlations as...

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Measuring the benefit from reducing income inequality in terms of GDP

Voigts, Simon - 2016

Given that well-being is a concave function of income, inequality is inefficient from a utilitarian perspective. This paper proposes a way to express the utilitarian benefit from redistributive reforms in terms of out- put, i.e. as a share of GDP. Three applications are presented: First, in nine...

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The impact of ICT investments on the relative demand for high-medium-, and low-skilled workers : industry versus country analysis

Schneider, Dorothee - 2010

In this paper I analyze the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) on compensation shares of high-, medium-, and low-skilled workers. Com- pared to other studies, I investigate this question using a considerably richer data set with respect to the length of time series, set of...

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