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inherently ambivalent, being considered as an indicator of either information flow or uncertainty.We discriminate between these … volatility. This exploits the revealed reaction of investors to gauge the degree of information and uncertainty ascribed to …
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option on an art index, derived from one of the most comprehensive data sets of art market transactions. The option allows … investors to optimize their exposure to art. For pricing purposes, non-tradability of the art index is acknowledged and option …
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According to the news model of asset price determination, only the unexpected component of an information should drive … price. To disentangle gross news from net news, betting odd information is used to control for the expected match outcome. …
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In this paper, we address the question whether the impact of default risk on equity returns depends on the financial system firms operate in. Using an implementation of Merton's option-pricing model for the value of equity to estimate firms' default risk, we construct a factor that measures the...
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This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
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This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
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overseas (H). This puts forth questions of market integration as well as cross-divisional information transmission. We address …
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improvements. The present paper seeks to contribute to this evolution, focusing on the Global Risk Appetite Index (GRAI) class of …
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Since World War II, direct stock ownership by households has largely been replaced by indirect stock ownership by …
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We provide a simple and intuitive measure of interdependence of asset returns and/or volatilities. In particular, we formulate and examine precise and separate measures of return spillovers and volatility spillovers. Our framework facilitates study of both non-crisis and crisis episodes,...
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