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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms’ investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing firms. Uncertainty measures are derived from firms’ subjective qualitative expectations. They are close to their theoretical counterparts, the variances of future demand and...

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Distributional dynamics under smoothly state-dependent pricing

Costain, James; Nakov, Anton - 2011

Starting from the assumption that firms are more likely to adjust their prices when doing so is more valuable, this paper analyzes monetary policy shocks in a DSGE model with firm-level heterogeneity. The model is calibrated to retail price microdata, and inflation responses are decomposed into...

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Diversification in euro area stock markets

Moerman, Gerard - 2004

The harmonisation of fiscal and economic policy within the European Monetary Union (EMU) has had a considerable impact on the economies of member countries in the past decade. In particular, several studies indicate that the proceeding economic integration among euro area countries has important...

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Myopic loss aversion, disappointment aversion, and the equity premium puzzle

Fielding, David; Stracca, Livio - 2003

This paper takes a close look at the 'behavioural finance' explanations of the equity premium puzzle, namely myopic loss aversion (Benartzi and Thaler, 1995) and disappointment aversion (Ang, Bekaert and Liu, 2000). The paper proposes a simple specification of loss and disappointment aversion...

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Finance and diversification

Manganelli, Simone; Popov, Alexander - 2010

faster for sectors that have a higher "natural" long-term risk-adjusted growth and which exhibit higher information frictions …

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Investors with too many options?

Dorn, Daniel - 2010

During the last decade, markets for covered warrants (bank-issued options) have flourished in Europe and Asia. In these markets, investors often face a choice between many instruments that differ only slightly from each other. Based on retail trades in call options on the German DAX index, this...

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Should larger reserve holdings be more diversified?

Beck, Roland; Weber, Sebastian - 2010

The notable increase in international reserve holdings over the past decade and their use during the global financial crisis of 2008/2009 has sparked renewed interest in the analysis of the optimal level of reserve holdings, in particular in countries which are subject to sudden stops. Less...

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Risk spillover among hedge funds

Klaus, Benjamin; Rzepkowski, Bronka - 2009

particular, we investigate the extent to which a spillover of risk among hedge funds through redemptions and failures of other … funds has affected the probability of fund failure. We find that risk spillover is significantly related to the failure … within the same investment style are adversely affected through both channels of risk spillover. In addition, we find that …

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Who lost the most?

Bucher-Koenen, Tabea; Ziegelmeyer, Michael - 2011

We study how and to what extent private households are affected by the recent financial crisis and how their financial decisions are in uenced by this shock. Our analysis reveals that individuals with low levels of financial literacy are less likely to have invested in the stock market and thus...

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Who invests in home equity to exempt wealth from bankruptcy?

Corradin, Stefano; Gropp, Reint; Huizinga, Harry; … - 2011

Homestead exemptions to personal bankruptcy allow households to retain their home equity up to a limit determined at the state level. Households that may experience bankruptcy thus have an incentive to bias their portfolios towards home equity. Using US household data from the Survey of Income...

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