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Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between stock prices, house prices and consumption using data for 16 OECD countries. The panel data analysis suggests that the long-run responsiveness of consumption to permanent changes in stock prices is higher for countries with a market-based...
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the linkages between Australian house prices and stock prices under the Toda and Yamamoto test framework. Specifically, it investigated whether there is a capital switching effect between house prices and stock prices. Design/methodology/approach...
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Purpose – The paper seeks to assess the impact of brand acquisition announcement on the wealth of the acquiring company's shareholders in India. Furthermore, announcement returns have been assessed and compared across FMCG versus pharmaceutical brand acquisitions and domestic versus cross...
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Purpose – The wealth effect of accelerated stock repurchase (ASR) documented by previous studies is not as large as the authors would have expected. The authors believe that there are potentially important sampling problems in the previous studies, which make the results less reliable....
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Abstract This paper examines five possible explanations for the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009, using data for the United States and the eurozone. Of these five hypotheses, four are not supported by the data, while the fifth appears reasonable.
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It is not surprising that the U.S. has been by far the world’s largest shock producer in this crisis. The big shock absorbers on the other hand were Japan, Russia and Germany, whose exports shrank more than their imports.
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Abstract Di Crescenzo and Longobardi [Di Crescenzo and Longobardi, On cumulative entropies, J. Statist. Plann. Inference 139 2009, 12, 4072–4087] proposed the cumulative entropy (CE) as an alternative to the differential entropy. They presented an estimator of CE using empirical approach. In...
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Purpose The paper sets out a conceptualisation of the housing cycle centring on households' desire to upgrade their housing consumption. Design/methodology/approach The paper begins by studying house price trends and cycles in OECD countries since 2000 to identify housing cycle patterns. It then...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the presence of unit roots in the stock prices of 16 OECD countries. Design/methodology/approach Heterogeneous panel unit root tests developed by Im et al. (1997/2003) and Pesaran (2007). Findings Under the assumption of cross-sectional...
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Abstract Based on new estimates of public and private capital stocks for 22 OECD countries we study the dynamic effect of public capital on the real gross domestic product using a vector autoregression approach. Whereas most former studies put effort on examining the effects of public capital in...
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