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Conditional value at risk (CoVaR) and marginal expected shortfall (MES) have been proposed as stock return based measures of the systemic risk created by individual financial institutions even though the literature provides no formal hypothesis test for detecting systemic risk. Our conclusion is...
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The failure of the largest banks will not generally endanger the solvency of their parent bank holding companies (BHCs), preventing the secretary of the Treasury from using single point of entry (SPOE).
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We describe the broad range of uncertainties faced by the developers of medical technologies. Empirically, we estimate the asset market incidence of the realization  of two such of uncertainties experienced by the biotechnology firm Myriad Genetics, Inc.
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In this working paper, Paul Kupiec develops an algorithm to approximate the loss rate distribution for fixed income portfolios with obligor concentrations.
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The selective income tax exemption for home-state municipal bonds at issue in Davis v. Kentucky Department of Revenue is a barrier to interstate commerce.
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Although the U.S. Supreme Court has long held that the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution prohibits state taxes … that discriminate against interstate commerce, it has failed to provide a clear explanation of which taxes are … interstate commerce. We show that state taxes discriminate against interstate commerce if the combined tax burden on inbound and …
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In this paper, we estimate the size of the externalities produced by big-box retail stores for other establishments and explore the effect of the externalities on local government policy.
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This study analyzes public sector salaries and benefits in Wisconsin, with a particular focus on disentangling the risk-adjusted value of pension benefits offered in the public sector from accounting conventions that can understate the cost and value of defined benefit pension plans.
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We use a large dataset of land sales dating back to the mid-1990s to construct land price indexes for 23 MSAs in the United States and for the aggregate of those MSAs. The price indexes show a dramatic increase in both commercial and residential land prices over several years prior to their peak...
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