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A simple nonlinear structural model of endogenous belief heterogeneity is proposed. News about fundamentals is an IID random process, but nevertheless volatility clustering occurs as an endogenous phenomenon caused by the interaction between different types of traders, fundamentalists and...
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This paper derives optimal perfect hedging portfolios in the presence of transaction costs within the binomial model of stock returns, for a market maker that establishes bid and ask prices for American call options on stocks paying dividends prior to expiration.(...)
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This paper suggests that managers should continue to monitor carefully country as well as style rewards and risks.
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This paper examines the impact of a major change in dividend taxation introduced in the UK in July1997. The reform was … funds. We analyse the behaviour of share pricesaround the ex-dividend day both before and after the reform to test clientele … consistentwith the distortions introduced by the tax system (before the reform dividend income was taxadvantagedin the UK). We also …
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killings across space andtime which we use to generate estimates of the peace dividend. Theeconomic model suggests a somewhat …
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Standard equity valuation approaches (i.e., DDM, RIM, and DCF model) are derived under theassumption of ideal conditions, such as infinite payoffs and clean surplus accounting. Becausethese conditions are hardly ever met, we extend the standard approaches, based on thefundamental principle of...
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strong family capitalism. We find that family firmsexhibit a higher propensity and level for both dividend payments and total … higher “taste for dividend payments” ifcompared to firms dominated by the founder (“founder-controlled firms”). Our results …
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We propose an equity finance model with agency problems and investigate the relationship between dividend taxation and … inefficient investments. Contrary to both the old and the new view of dividend taxation, a fall in the dividend tax rate is found …
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As early as 1934 Graham and Dodd conjectured that excess returns from value investment originate from a tendency of markets to converge towards fundamental values. This paper confirms their insights theoretically within the evolutionary finance model of Evstigneev, Hens, and Schenk-Hopp (2006)...
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This model adds to the standard neoclassical model of business fluctuations by introducing a more realistic capital structure problem, where firms have to balance the tax benefits of debt with the costs of potential financial distress. Therefore, firms solve a dynamic problem with both an...
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