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Do REITs outperform stocks and fixed-income assets? New evidence from mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches

Chiang, Thomas C.; Lean, Hooi Hooi; Wong, Wing-keung - In: Journal of Risk and Financial Management 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-40

This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk …-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first … order to maximize their expected utility, the risk-averse prefer fixed-income assets over real estate, which, in turn, is …

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A General Framework for Studying Contests

Bastani, Spencer; Giebe, Thomas; Gürtler, Oliver - 2020

We develop a general framework for studying contests, including the well-known models of Tullock(1980) and Lazear & Rosen (1981) as special cases. The contest outcome depends on playersâ efforts and skills, the latter being subject to symmetric uncertainty. The model is tractable, because...

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The maximum entropy distribution for stochastically ordered random variables with fixed marginals

Kiefer, Nicholas M. - 2009

Stochastically ordered random variables with given marginal distributions are combined into a joint distribution preserving the ordering and the marginals using a maximum entropy formulation. A closed-form expression is obtained. An application is in default estimation for different portfolio...

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Nonparametric tests for common values in first-price sealed-bid auctions

Haile, Philip A.; Hong, Han; Shum, Matthew - 2003

We develop tests for common values at first-price sealed-bid auctions. Our tests are nonparametric, require observation only of the bids submitted at each auction, and are based on the fact that the winner’s curse arises only in common values auctions. The tests build on recently developed...

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A new class of ageing distributions

Riese, Martin - 2002

The class of new worse/better than used in expectation on average (NWUEA/NBUEA) distributions is proposed. It is defined by the requirement that for each age t a weighted average of mean residual lives be greater/smaller than the life expectancy at birth. The weights are the shares of ages up to...

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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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Investment certificates under German taxation: Benefit or burden for structured products' performance?

Scholz, Peter; Walther, Ursula - 2010

empirical viewpoint. Previous research analyzed portfoliotheoretical issues, mispricing patterns, and counterparty risk. This …, we use both a risk neutral and a loss averse value function. Individual preferences prove relevant especially for those …

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Assessing absolute and relative pro-poor growth, with an application to selected African countries

Bibi, Sami; Duclos, Jean-Yves; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011

This paper proposes a multidimensional procedure for jointly assessing the absolute and relative pro-poorness of growth. It is also a procedure for testing whether poverty comparisons can be made over classes of indices that incorporate both absolute and relative views of poverty. Besides being...

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The export-productivity link for Brazilian manufacturing firms

Cirera, Xavier; Lederman, Daniel; Máñez, Juan A.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-22, pp. 1-31

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity (TFP) in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2008. The Brazilian experience is instructive as it is a case of an economy that expanded aggregate exports significantly, but with stagnant aggregate TFP...

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The gap between the conditional wage distributions of incumbents and the newly hired employees: Decomposition and uniform ordering

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Pitts, M. Melinda; Wu, Ke - 2014

We examine the cardinal gap between wage distributions of the incumbents and newly hired workers based on entropic distances that are well-defined welfare theoretic measures. Decomposition of several effects is achieved by identifying several counterfactual distributions of different groups....

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