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News from London: Greek Government Bonds on the London Stock Exchange, 1914-1929

Christodoulaki, Olga; Penzer, Jeremy - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2004

Statistical analysis of Greek sovereign debt denominated in gold and traded on the London Stock Exchange from the outbreak of the First World War until the advent of the Great Depression is employed to explore the way that historical events including political and institutional changes shaped...

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Firm Migration and Stock Returns

Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...

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Robust Predictive Regression

Camponovo, Lorenzo; Scaillet, Olivier; Trojani, Fabio - Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research North … - 2010

A large literature studies the predictability of stock returns by other lagged nancialvariables in a predictive regression setting. A common feature of widely used testingprocedures is a failing robustness, which may lead to misleading conclusions determinedby the particular features of a small...

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The effects of competition and equal treatment laws on the gender wage differential

Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

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Does competition enhance performance or cheating? A laboratory experiment

Schwieren, Christiane; Weichselbaumer, Doris - 2008

academia have been partially explained by "competitive pressures", which suggests a link between competition and cheating. In … no overall sex difference in cheating. However, the effect of competition on women's cheating behavior is entirely due to … of an individual to conduct a particular task and not sex that crucially affects the reaction to competition. Poor …

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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio

Letina, Igor - 2015

duplication of research. An increase in the intensity of competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed …

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Entry, exit, and the determinants of market structure

Dunne, Timothy; Klimek, Shawn D.; Roberts, Mark J.; Xu, … - 2013

competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …

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The road not taken: Competition and the R&D portfolio

Letina, Igor - 2014

competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …

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Expectations as reference points: Field evidence from experienced subjects in a competitive, high-stakes environment

Bartling, Björn; Brandes, Leif; Schunk, Daniel - 2012

We show that professional soccer players exhibit reference-dependent behavior during matches. Controlling for the state of the match and for unobserved heterogeneity, we show on a minute-by-minute basis that a player breaches the rules of the game, measured by the referee's assignment of cards,...

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Reference points in renegotiations: The role of contracts and competition

Bartling, Björn; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2012

Several recent papers argue that contracts provide reference points that affect ex post behavior. We test this hypothesis in a canonical buyer-seller relationship with renegotiation. Our paper provides causal experimental evidence that an initial contract has a highly significant and...

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