stronger in smaller stocks and in growth stocks. These findings support the notion of “noise” in aggregate market prices …

Tobin's q equations on the ratios of R&D to assets stocks, patents to R&D, and citations to patents. We find that each ratio …

market share in the stocks covered relative to stocks that are not covered. …

Interest rate risk represents one of the key forms of financial risk faced by banks. It has given rise to an extensive …. However, the analysis of the sources of bank interest rate risk has received much less attention in the literature. The aim of … significantly and negatively related to the level of bank¿s interest rate risk. El riesgo de interés representa una de las …

that an individual petty corrupt behaviour is a consequence of the theoretically-optimal behaviour for the risk …) occasionally for the risk-seeking official, who subjectively underweight rare event and its probability. …

In this thesis we consider two comparative statics questions of changes in risk. The first question concerns situations … where an individual faces some risk and has no control over the uncertain environment. In these situations we ask what kind … of changes in risk will cause the individual's expected utility to increase. The second comparative statics question …