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In this paper I study the asset pricing implication of cross-country differences in income inequality. Using panel regression with year fixed effects, I document a strong negative relationship between cross-country stock market levels (as measured by each market's P/D ratio) and cross-country...
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world economy. Leaders in BRICs are frenetically laying the groundwork for decades of new growth. Foreign Investors are … world. The leading indices of the selected stock markets are considered as proxies of the markets. Using the daily Index … contributions of national market volatilities, external world market volatility, and some other factors influencing the correlation …
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This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection laws through cross-border mergers and acquisitions. We find significant...
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The class of generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedastic (GARCH) models has proved particularly valuable in modelling time series with time varying volatility. These include financial data, which can be particularly heavy tailed.This paper investigates the time-series behavior of...
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We study trends and drivers of long-run stock market growth in 17 advanced economies. Between 1870 and the 1980s, stock market capitalization grew in line with GDP. But over subsequent decades, an unprecedented expansion saw market cap to GDP ratios triple and remain persistently high. While...
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The author analyzes the statistics of words and phrases related to financial market trading practices in millions of volumes from Google's book collection and available at Google Ngram Viewer. In recent almost 30 years, as the analyzed data shows, the scholars and practitioners' interest in the...
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This paper presents annual stock market capitalization data for 17 advanced economies from 1870 to today. Extending our knowledge beyond individual benchmark years in the seminal work of Rajan and Zingales (2003) reveals a striking new time series pattern: over the long run, the evolution of...
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herding behavior of the stock markets from the top economies of the world (known as G20 countries). We classify stock market …
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