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Evidence that cash flow has a significant effect on investment after controlling for Tobin's average Q has been interpreted as suggesting the importance of financing constraints. Recent work shows that the Q model may not be identified if there are `bubbles' in stock market valuations that are...
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This paper presents empirical evidence from a representative sample of Tunisian firms on the importance of loan officers in the production of 'soft information' by opposition of 'hard' information, testing whether firm borrowers have a relationship with their bank or with their loan officer. To...
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This paper presents empirical evidence from a representative sample of Tunisian firms on the importance of loan officers in the production of 'soft information' by opposition of 'hard' information, testing whether firm borrowers have a relationship with their bank or with their loan officer. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048979
This article examines the nature of the empirical instability in dynamic term structure models. I show that using survey forecasts is an effective solution because it directly addresses the information imbalance at the heart of the instability: it increases the (cross-section) information on...
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Recognizing the problems of estimation error in computing risk premia via arbitrage pricing, this paper provides a …
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datasets where the number of fixed effects makes standard estimation techniques infeasible. The methods work for balanced and … unbalanced panels and increase the speed of estimation without imposing excessive computational demands. I will apply the methods …
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Diese Forschungsarbeit widmet sich der Analyse von Stimmungen und Erwartungen im System der Märkte mit Dynamic Partial Least Squares (DPLS) Modellen. Die Analyse komplexer Systeme mit umfangreichen Datensätzen und die Erkennung relevanter Muster erfordern die Verwendung moderner statistischer...
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This paper examines the importance of the economic sentiments of some macroeconomic key variables in Estonia, Slovenia … and Latvia. We analyze the importance of domestic as well as foreign sentiments with respect to these economies against … domestic stock prices, income and sentiments; and, secondly, we take external effects stemming from EMU and US share prices and …
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Overwhelming evidence indicates that firms time market conditions to issue equity. I investigate the motivations for security issuances in hot and cold markets. While it is commonly believed that firms tend to exploit overvaluations to issue equity and overinvest in so-called 'hot' markets,...
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This paper examines the importance of diff erent economic sentiments, e.g. consumer moods, for the Central and Eastern … also lead to an increase in the dependence of the CEECs’ domestic market performance on global sentiments, we also … investigate the relationship between global economic sentiments and domestic income and share prices. Finally, we test whether the …
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