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We demonstrate how endogenous information acquisition in venture capital markets creates investment cycles when competing financiers undertake their screening decisions in an uncoordinated way, thereby highlighting the role of intertemporal screening externalities induced by competition among...
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A short squeeze is triggered if there is pressure on short sellers to cover their positions because of a sharp price increase or a recall of borrowed shares. This drives short sellers to close their positions early. We find that stock-day short-squeeze events are rare and short-lived. However,...
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We study the impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu on U.S. stock prices. We use the death rate to control for the impact of the global pandemic and war news reported in the New York Times to capture the positive effects of the end of World War I on stock prices. Using a new weekly hand collected NYSE...
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We study the impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu on U.S. stock returns. We use a new weekly hand collected sample of 136 firms that traded on the NYSE and new mortality data to assess the impact of four waves of the flu on stock returns. We find that the second and fourth waves of the pandemic...
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We study the impact of the 1918 Spanish Flu on U.S. stock prices. Using a new weekly hand collected sample of 136 firms that traded on the NYSE, we examine the impact of the four waves of the flu on stock returns using panel regressions. The second and fourth wave of the pandemic significantly...
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