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the first release of U.S. macroeconomic information. Specifically, we focus on the impact of these announcements not only … fundamentals; yet, excessive volatility and comovement play an important role in return dynamics as well. Further, our analysis … arrival of unexpected fundamental information. However, we also show that stock and bond returns tend to react to the expected …
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We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of the 2,702 IPOs made in India during three different regulatory regimes in the period 1990-2004. There are two competing hypotheses regarding the effect of group affiliation on a firm's initial performance in the stock...
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We analyze the pricing and informational efficiency of the Italian market for options written on the most important stock index, the MIB30. We find several indications inconsistent with the hypothesis that the Italian MIBO is an efficient market. We report that a striking percentage of the data...
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This paper studies the relationship between civil war and the value of firms in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining firms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conflict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader...
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This paper studies the effects of conflict onset on asset markets applying the event study methodology. We consider a sample of 112 conflicts during the period 1974-2004 and find that a sizeable fraction of them had a significant impact on stock market indices and on major commodity prices....
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This paper studies the relationship between civil war and the value of firms in a poor, resource abundant country using microeconomic data for Angola. We focus on diamond mining firms and conduct an event study on the sudden end of the conflict, marked by the death of the rebel movement leader...
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, liquidity differences or information asymmetries between the swap and the futures markets. Using alternative term structure …
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In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas the prices of those that are unattainable can only be bounded. We first show that tighter price...
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Limited, a financial information provider. Thus, it is possible, for the first time, to directly observe deviations between …
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manner by yield curve variables and the future uncertainty in the interest rate markets; it also has information about future …
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