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The Dow is Killing Me : Risky Health Behaviors and the Stock Market

Cotti, Chad D. - 2016

We investigate how risky health behaviors and self-reported health vary with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA … research contributes to our understanding of the macro-economic determinants of health. Existing studies in this literature … through which the economic environment may influence individual health decisions. After accounting for associations with the …

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Skyrocketing Drug Prices : The Bubble We Live In

Rabbani, Maysam - 2023

This short paper identifies an insidious pattern in the United States (US) pharmaceutical industry: while drug prices are skyrocketing, insurers are perfectly shielding patients from higher costs at the pharmacy checkout, letting patients live in a "bubble" of price insulation. As drug prices...

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Has COVID-19 changed the correlation between cryptocurrencies and stock markets?

Abdelkafi, Ines; Romdhane, Youssra Ben; Loukil, Sahar - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 12 (2023) 2, pp. 139-156

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the notion that cryptocurrencies are uncorrelated with traditional asset markets. This study uses VAR-OLS techniques to investigate the time-varying correlation between Bitcoin and three major European stock market indices from January 4, 2016, to February...

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The Impact of 'Three-Child' Policy on the Stock Performance of Chinese Maternal and Infant Industry

Cai, Xiang - 2022

The "three-child policy" is a unique population policy in China. Previous studies have shown that demographic policies are related to the performance of related stocks and affect economic development. I studied the impact of the introduction of the "three- child policy" on the stock performance...

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A Stochastic LQR Model for Child Order Placement in Algorithmic Trading

Shen, Jackie - 2020

Modern Algorithmic Trading ("Algo") allows institutional investors and traders to liquidate or establish big security positions in a fully automated or low-touch manner. Most existing academic or industrial Algos focus on how to "slice" a big parent order into smaller child orders over a given...

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