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This paper tests the policitcal dimensions of the presidential cycle effect in U.S. financial markets. The presidential cycle effect states that average stock market returns are significantly higher in the last two years compared to the first two years of a presidential term. We confirm the...
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equities, the cost of default of those firms is equal zero. Indeed, firms suffer from losses on fire-sales but at the same time … and deposits affect the performance of banks and firms, observing economic dynamics in time under different …
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formation over time, capable to capture important stylized facts. These latter properties prove to be sensitive to regulatory …
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another side, price system provides collective signal of market-driven information over time. Both jointly drive the formation … share market prices over time.This numerical statistical analysis contributes to shed light on accounting anomalies and …
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Rapach et al. (2013) have recently shown that U.S. equity market returns carry valuable information to improve return forecasts in global equity markets. In this study, we extend the work of Rapach et al. (2013) and examine if U.S. based equity market information can be used to improve realized...
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of security issuer fundamental performance over time. Distinctive signaling sources on this performance correspond to …), confidence, and diffusion degree among investors over space and time. Under full and immediate diffusion and balanced reaction by … confidence mood among investors over space and time. We illustrate our results through paradigmatic cases of stochastic news …
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neurons, which store the information about a particular event and its outcome. These neurons get trained in due course of time …
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The Fed has never admitted targeting stock prices. Yet our empirical analysis, based on a small macro-econometric model of the U.S. economy in the period 1981-2002, shows that the Fed explicitly takes into account stock price variations in its reaction function. Furthermore, our simulation...
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In an effort to provide a set of reasonable expectations for stock market performance during 2011, we present results of two simple econometric exercises. Our starting point is the recent trough of economic activity which took place in June of 2009, according to the NBER. This means 2011...
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We show that updates to macroeconomic expectations among professional forecasters exhibit an offsetting pattern where increases in current-quarter predictions lead to decreases in three quarter ahead predictions. We further document evidence of individual overreaction at the quarterly frequency...
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