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significant amplifying role for market uncertainty in the relation between sentiment and aggregate investment. A one …-standard-deviation increase in uncertainty more than doubles the effect of sentiment on investment. Moreover, allowing uncertainty …The effects of sentiment should be strongest during times of heightened valuation uncertainty. As such, we document a …
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announcement return is negatively correlated to future investment only if there is time-varying uncertainty. Consistent with the …We argue the earnings announcement premium is a measure of firm-specific uncertainty aversion. Our stylized model shows … earnings announcements, as pure news events, are priced only if investors are uncertainty averse; further, the earnings …
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We show in a fairly general setting of a buyer and seller with the same preferences trading two related assets so as to share volatility risk that illiquidity and virtually all impediments to trade cannot be priced. This is because the buying and selling counterparties must both be optimizing....
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I show in a setting of a buyer and seller with the same preferences trading two related assets so as to share volatility risk that illiquidity and virtually all impediments to trade cannot be priced in the absence of excess short-selling costs. This is because the buyer values the asset at the...
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premium; we find that it increases the value of the real optionto delay an investment and, thus, influences investments … is more important for investment-grade firms, which have relatively higher exposureto systematic variance risk. This … premium helps us understand an otherwise surprisingpattern: investments are lower for investment-grade firms with better …
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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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spectrum among the countries of this group because of the relevance of this information to investors, traders and policy makers …
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This paper investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firms’ investment sensitivity to their peers …’ stock prices. We find that investment increasingly responds to the variation of peers’ prices during the high policy … uncertainty period in China. To deal with the increasing uncertainty, managers need more information when making investment …
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financial market that features volatility uncertainty. To have a mathematical consistent framework we use the notion of G … uncertainty the market is not complete any more. We establish the interval of no-arbitrage prices for general European contingent … uncertainty ; G-Brownian motion stochastic calculus …
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This paper considers a sequence of discrete-time random walk markets with a single risky asset, and gives conditions for the existence of arbitrage opportunities or free lunches with vanishing risk, of the form of waiting to buy and selling the next period, with no shorting, and furthermore for...
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