The staggered passage of state medical marijuana laws increases state bonds' offering and trading spreads by 7-11 basis points. Consistent with medical marijuana laws causing an increase in states' credit risk, states incur higher safety and public welfare expenditures and experience greater...

Lange verschmähten Anleger das Segment Biotechnologie. Doch der Sektor Gesundheit erlebt an der Börse einen Boom. Die Perspektiven sind exzellent, denn neben innovativen Medikamenten und beeindruckenden Rekordgewinnen der Pharmagiganten sprechen wichtige Produktzulassungen sowie...

Greater data availability has been coupled with developments in statistical theory and economic theory to allow more elaborate and complicated models to be entertained. These include factor models, DSGE models, restricted vector autoregressions, and non-linear models.