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Managerial overconfidence and corporate risk management
Adam, Tim R.; Fernando, Chitru S.; Golubeva, Evgenia - 2012
We show that managerial overconfidence, which has been found to influence a number of corporate financial decisions, also affects corporate risk management. We find that managers increase their speculative activities using derivatives following speculative gains, while they do not reduce their...
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Investigating nonlinear speculation in cattle, corn, and hog futures markets using logistic smooth transition regression models
Röthig, Andreas; Chiarella, Carl - 2006
This article explores nonlinearities in the response of speculators' trading activity to price changes in live cattle, corn, and lean hog futures markets. Analyzing weekly data from March 4, 1997 to December 27, 2005, we reject linearity in all of these markets. Using smooth transition...
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Why do firms engage in selective hedging?
Adam, Tim R.; Fernando, Chitru S.; Salas, Jesus M. - 2012
Surveys of corporate risk management document that selective hedging, where managers incorporate their market views into firms' hedging programs, is widespread in the U.S. and other countries. Stulz (1996) argues that selective hedging could enhance the value of firms that possess an information...
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Interest rates and output in the long-run
Aksoy, Yunus; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2005
In this paper we argue that both statistics and economic theory-based evidence largely indicate the absence of long run relationships between the real output and the most relevant monetary indicator for the U.K. and the U.S, short term interest rates. These findings are not only a full sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604480
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Interest rates and output in the long-run
Aksoy, Yunus; León-Ledesma, Miguel A. - 2004
In this paper we argue that both statistics and economic theory-based evidence largely indicate the absence of long run relationships between the real output and the most relevant monetary indicator for the U.K. and the U.S short term interest rates. These findings are not only a full sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290636
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Price adjustment to news with uncertain precision
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E.; Müller, Christoph - 2008
Bayesian learning provides the core concept of processing noisy information. In standard Bayesian frameworks, assessing the price impact of information requires perfect knowledge of news' precision. In practice, however, precision is rarely dis- closed. Therefore, we extend standard Bayesian...
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Price adjustment to news with uncertain precision
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E.; Müller, Christoph - 2008
Bayesian learning provides a core concept of information processing in financial markets. Typically it is assumed that market participants perfectly know the quality of released news. However, in practice, news' precision is rarely disclosed. Therefore, we extend standard Bayesian learning...
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Global food price volatility and spikes: An overview of costs, causes, and solutions
von Braun, Joachim; Tadesse, Getaw - 2012
from the supply side, biofuel production from the demand side, and speculation in commodity futures from the market side … speculation in commodity futures are not yet well understood. However, speculative trading in commodity futures should not be … nonmarket contexts that guide the behavioral and strategic choices of speculators. Whereas speculation caused by manipulative …
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Speculation in Standard Auctions with Resale
Garratt, Rod; Tröger, Thomas - 2005
In standard auctions with symmetric, independent private value bidders resale creates a role for a speculator - a bidder who is commonly known to have no use value for the good on sale. For second-price and English auctions the efficient value-bidding equilibrium coexists with a continuum of...
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A General Financial Transaction Tax: A Short Cut of the Pros, the Cons and a Proposal
Schulmeister, Stephan - 2009
The idea of introducing a general financial transaction tax (FTT) has recently attracted rising attention. There are three reasons for this interest: First, the economic crisis was deepened by the instability of stock prices, exchange rates and commodity prices. This instability might be...
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