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This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firms’ investment sensitivity to their peers … uncertainty period in China. To deal with the increasing uncertainty, managers need more information when making investment … effect is more pronounced for firms with higher operating uncertainty, lower price informativeness, and limited access to …
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This paper empirically analyzes a model that relates earnings price ratios to long term risk free rates and implied volatilities. The two periods with sufficient available data are 1890-1933, and 2007-2019. I estimate that modern investors have relative risk aversion of 1.34 and a time...
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Stokey), and that the value of public information is negative in economies with risk-sharing and no aggregate uncertainty …
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Based on a novel measure of volatility-asymmetries in asset returns, we provide economic insight into the asymmetry-risk as a critical factor for investment decision making. Our approach offers a distribution-free solution to determine the portfolio efficient-frontier under stochastic dominance....
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average about 40% of the risk neutral fundamental value. Neither uncertainty about the value of total dividend payments nor … horizon uncertainty about the duration of trade can account for this low traded price, while the temporal resolution of payoff … uncertainty plays a crucial role. We find that probability weighting under the Epstein and Zin (1989) recursive preference …
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We examine how the market valuation of firms varies on account of characteristics that make them vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic across different stages of the crisis. Using plant location data that uniquely identify the vulnerability of firms to operational disruptions, we find that firms...
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Understanding the pattern of stock market volatility is important to investors as well as for investment policy. Volatility is directly associated with risks and returns, higher the volatility the more financial market is unstable. The volatility of the Zimbabwean stock market is modeled using...
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This paper deals with the problem of modelling the volatility of futures prices in agricultural markets. We develop a multi-factor model in which the stochastic volatility dynamics incorporate a seasonal component. In addition, a maturity dependent damping term accounts for the Samuelson effect....
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This paper reveals that in addition to fundamental factors, the 52-week high price and recent investor sentiment play an important role in analysts' target price formation. Analysts' forecasts of short-term earnings and long-term earnings growth are shown to be important explanatory variables...
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Climate policy proposals based on cap and trade mechanisms with tight caps will likely lead to highly volatile CO2 prices. This volatility is ignored in many studies, even though it can be expected to exceed that of natural gas and to exceed the wide ranges in CO2 price forecasts. Volatility...
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