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We investigate the effect of uncertainty on investment. We employ a unique dataset of 25000 Greek firms' balance sheets for 14 years covering the period before and after the eurozone crisis. A dynamic factor model is employed to proxy uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is...
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Poverty is typically measured as insufficient yearly income or consumption. In practice, however, poverty is marked by seasonality, economic instability, and illiquidity across months. To capture within-year variability, we extend traditional poverty measures to include a temporal dimension....
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important source of consumption risk as two thirds of households are involved in some level of agricultural production. For … South Africa, we focus on labor market risk proxied by transitions from formal employment to informal work or unemployment …
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We investigate the effect of uncertainty on investment. We employ a unique dataset of 25000 Greek firms' balance sheets for 14 years covering the period before and after the eurozone crisis. A dynamic factor model is employed to proxy uncertainty. The investment performance of 14 sectors is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063228
The aim of this paper is to provide an application of the Shapley Value to decompose financial portfolio risk …. Decomposing the sample covariance risk measure yields relative measures, which enable securities of a portfolio to be classified … according to risk scales. …
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magnitude of tax revenue receipts. A framework is presented for risk management of daily tourist tax revenues for the Maldives … tourist arrivals and their growth rate is analogous to the volatility (or dynamic risk) in financial returns. In this paper …
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This paper deals with three aspects of spectacular oil price episodes such as the one witnessed in 2008. First, the concept of temporary explosiveness is proposed as an empirical method for capturing this type of behavior. The application of a recently proposed recursive unit root test shows...
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This paper proposes to investigate the impact of financialization on energy markets (oil, gas, coal and electricity European forward prices) during both normal times and extreme fluctuation periods through an original behavioral and emotional approach. To this aim, we propose a new theoretical...
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This paper derives two new improved risk metrics LAPVaR and LAPSF. Traditional VaRDeltaNormal valuation exaggerates … Shortfall – PSF – uses option theory to solve the problem that, under any circumstance, the risk amount is never greater than … the portfolio value. Risk to LIQUIDATION means every day-t, a portion of portfolio assets-i, for integer i ϵ (1, N) is …
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group of nonconventional economies like the GCC countries, where risk-sharing based financial system is prominent and … foreign investment, risk-free interest, derivatives, etc. are not as widespread as in Western economies. Design … risk-sharing based financial system does not necessarily protect the stock market from US uncertainty shock. However, the …
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