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Absolute abundance and relative scarcity : announced policy, resource extraction, and carbon emissions
Di Maria, Corrado; Smulders, Sjak; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2008
their carbon content. We find that, when allowing some time between announcement and implementation of a cap on carbon … be extracted during other periods. Second, since low carbon energy sources are relatively more valuable when the policy … is implemented, it is optimal to conserve them ahead of enforcement. This might induce a switch to high-carbon resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799171
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The Value Relevance of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Allowances : An Exploratory Study in the Related United States SO2 Market
Johnston, Derek; Sefcik, Stephan; Soderstrom, Naomi S. - 2014
This paper examines the valuation implications of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions allowances. We posit that the value of a firm's bank of emission allowances has two components that are likely to be positively valued by the capital market: 1) an asset value component; and 2) a real option value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215049
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Divestment and Engagement : The Effect of Green Investors on Corporate Carbon Emissions
Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies whether green investors can influence corporate greenhouse gas emissions through capital markets, either by divesting their stock and limiting polluters' access to capital, or holding polluters' stock and engaging with management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying...
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Modeling Asset Returns: A Comparison of Theoretical and Empirical Models
Schröder, Michael; Lüders, Erik - 2004
This paper presents and compares several time-series models for returns of broadbased stock indices. These models nest a nonlinear asymmetric GARCH (NGARCH) model as a special case. Some of these models are empirically motivated ad-hoc specifications others are derived from a representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298005
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International Stock Return Predictability Under Model Uncertainty
Schrimpf, Andreas - 2008
This paper examines return predictability when the investor is uncertain about the right state variables. A novel feature of the model averaging approach used in this paper is to account for finite-sample bias of the coefficients in the predictive regressions. Drawing on an extensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298059
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Further evidence on the (in-) efficiency of the U.S. housing market
Schindler, Felix - 2010
Extending the controversial findings from relevant literature on testing the efficient market hypothesis for the U.S. housing market, the results from the monthly and quarterly transaction-based Case-Shiller indices from 1987 to 2009 provide further empirical evidence on the rejection of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299929
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Long-horizon consumption risk and the cross-section of returns: New tests and international evidence
Grammig, Joachim G.; Schrimpf, Andreas; Schuppli, Michael - 2009
This paper investigates whether measuring consumption risk over long horizons can improve the empirical performance of the Consumption CAPM for size and value premia in international stock markets (US, UK, and Germany). In order to account for commonalities in size and book-tomarket sorted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010302553
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Zur Qualität professioneller Wechselkursprognosen
Schmidt, Robert - 2003
Die Berücksichtigung der zukünftigen Entwicklung des Wechselkurses ist sowohl für internationale Unternehmen als auch für international tätige Investoren unabdingbar. Allerdings ist die Erstellung von Wechsel- kursprognosen schwierig, da bis zum heutigen Zeitpunkt kein allgemein anerkanntes...
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Should one rely on professional exchange rate forecasts: An empirical analysis of professional forecasts for the €/US-$ rate
Bofinger, Peter; Schmidt, Robert - 2003
The study analyses the characteristics of professional exchange rate forecasts for the €/US-$ rate. The results indicate that the quality of forecasts produced by profes-sional economists is rather poor and incompatible with the rational expectations hy-pothesis. This dismal result is...
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Time variation in asset price response to macro announcements
Goldberg, Linda S.; Grisse, Christian - 2013
Although the effects of economic news announcements on asset prices are well established, theserelationships are unlikely to be stable. This paper documents the time variation in the responses of yield curves and exchange rates using high-frequency data from January 2000 through August 2011....
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