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A Double Machine Learning Approach to Estimate the Effects of Musical Practice on Student's Skills
Knaus, Michael - 2018
This study investigates the dose-response effects of making music on youth development. Identification is based on the …
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How learning a musical instrument affects the development of skills
Hille, Adrian; Schupp, Jürgen - 2014
Despite numerous studies on skill development, we know little about the effects of extracurricular music activities on … cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This study examines how music training during childhood and youth affects the development of … findings suggest that adolescents with music training have better school grades, are more conscientious, open and ambitious …
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Ex Post : The Investment Performance of Collectible Stamps
Dimson, Elroy - 2016
This paper uses stamp catalogue prices to investigate the returns on British collectible postage stamps over the period 1900–2008. We find an annualized return on stamps of 7.0% in nominal terms, or 2.9% in real terms. These returns are higher than those on bonds but below those on equities....
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Testing for Bubbles in Cryptocurrencies with Time-Varying Volatility
Hafner, Christian - 2018
The recent evolution of cryptocurrencies has been characterized by bubble-like behavior and extreme volatility. While it is difficult to assess an intrinsic value to a specific cryptocurrency, one can employ recently proposed bubble tests that rely on recursive applications of classical unit...
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Volatility of price indices for heterogeneous goods
Bocart, Fabian Y. R. P.; Hafner, Christian M. - 2012
Price indices for heterogenous goods such as real estate or fine art constitute crucial information for institutional or private investors considering alternative investments in times of financial markets turmoil. Classical mean-variance analysis of alternative investments has been hampered by...
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Econometric analysis of volatile art markets
Bocart, Fabian Y. R. P.; Hafner, Christian M. - 2011
A new heteroskedastic hedonic regression model is suggested which takes into account time-varying volatility and is applied to a blue chips art market. A nonparametric local likelihood estimator is proposed, and this is more precise than the often used dummy variables method. The empirical...
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Analysts' Accuracy Following Information Shocks : Evidence from the Art Market
Barnes, Spencer; Mendez, Brandon; Schrowang, Andrew - 2023
Analysts quantify price uncertainty through their estimates. This study utilizes the art market as an exogenous setting to explore how an increase in price uncertainty (e.g., the death of an artist) impacts the accuracy and precision of analysts' estimates. We find that in the year following an...
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The effect of Internet piracy on CD sales : cross-section evidence
Peitz, Martin; Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2004
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Does audiovisual congruency in advertisements increase persuation? : the role of cultural music and products
Lalwani, Ashok K.; Lwin, May O.; Ling, Pee Beng - In: Journal of global marketing 22 (2009) 2, pp. 139-153
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Mozart or Pelé? : the effects of teenagers' participation in music and sports
Cabane, Charlotte; Hille, Adrian; Lechner, Michael - 2015
' leisure time on playing music or doing sports, or both. We find that while playing music fosters educational outcomes compared …
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