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practice. The survey design allows us to control for a respondent's professional subgroup (e.g., consulting), education … than education; different professions have different valuation cultures. Other factors are less important. There are also … capital allocation process. The relative unimportance of education raises questions about the role and benefit of higher level …
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The paper proposes a novel direction to rationalize and quantify investors' flipping behavior and its effect on underpricing in IPOs through the use of a structural approach mode. The outcome is a proxy value that replicates investors' flipping behavior. When tested empirically, the model...
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Polynomial processes have the property that expectations of polynomial functions (of degree n, say) of the future state of the process conditional on the current state are given by polynomials (of degree n) of the current state. Here we explore the application of polynomial processes in the...
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The opposition in a number of countries to the inclusion of nuclear energy in a sustainable energy portfolio, in part due to the dread of what the “nuclear” word inspires, has limited quantitative scientific foundation of the real benefits and risks. This has been amplified by the lack of a...
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The Swiss energy plan 2050 includes an increase of electricity consumption by 37% from the electrification of transport and heating, together with phasing out 2.9 GWe of nuclear power (about one-third of the nation's gross electricity generation) and substituting this lost power mainly with...
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How do banks offer mortgages through on online platform to areas without their branch presence? Unique data on responses from different banks to applicant households yield three salient findings: First, banks offer 4% more often and 6 basis points cheaper credit when markets have high versus low...
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We document the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on digital finance and fintech adoption and usage. Drawing on mobile application data from 71 countries, we estimate that the spread of COVID-19 and related government lockdowns led to between a 33.1 and 36.6 percent increase in the relative rate...
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This paper investigates the pricing of single-asset autocallable barrier reverse convertibles in the Heston local-stochastic volatility (LSV) model. Despite their complexity, autocallable structured notes are the most traded equity-linked exotic derivatives. The autocallable payoff embeds an...
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We construct a momentum factor that identifies cross-sectional winners and losers based on a weighting scheme that incorporates all the price data, over the entire lookback period, as opposed to only the first and last price points of the window. The weighting scheme is derived from the...
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Over the last decade foreign bond portfolio positions in US dollar assets have risen above the reciprocal US investor positions in foreign currencies. In periods of increased economic uncertainty, institutional investors hedge their international bond positions, which creates a net hedging...
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