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The frequency with which firms adjust output prices helps explain persistent differences in capital structure across firms. Unconditionally, the most exible-price firms have a 19% higher long-term leverage ratio than the most sticky-price firms, controlling for known determinants of capital...
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We propose a nonparametric method to test which characteristics provide independent information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
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Die ostdeutsche Wirtschaft bleibt auf Wachstumskurs. Jedoch lähmten im ersten Quartal Streiks und die Grippewelle die Produktion. Zudem nahmen die weltwirtschaflichen Risiken wieder zu, wodurch die Unternehmen geplante Investitionen auf-schieben dürfen. Diese Effekte bremsen das Wachstum....
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Seit Januar 2019 veröffentlicht das ifo Institut seine monatlichen Umfrageergebnisse auch für die Dienstleistungssektoren in Ostdeutschland und Sachsen. In Ostdeutschland verbesserte sich die Geschäftslage der Dienstleister in den letzten Jahren kontinuierlich, während die...
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Mit seinen monatlichen Konjunkturumfragen stellt das ifo Institut wertvolle Indikatoren zur Wirtschaftsentwicklung bereit – nicht nur für Deutschland, sondern auch für einzelne Bundesländer. Gegenwärtig werden die verschiedenen Indikatoren des ifo Geschäftsklimas Deutschland auch für die...
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We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized controlled trial. We first solicit individuals’ inflation expectations in the Nielsen Homescan panel and then provide eight different forms of information regarding inflation....
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Direct experience of a peer’s punishment might make non-punished peers reassess the probability and consequences of facing punishment and hence induce a change in their behavior. We test this mechanism in a setting, China, in which we observe the reactions to the same peer’s punishment by...
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We document five effects of providing individuals with crowdsourced spending information about their peers (individuals with similar characteristics) through a FinTech app. First, users who spend more than their peers reduce their spending significantly, whereas users who spend less keep...
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Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on stock prices during narrow time windows centered around press releases by the FOMC. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct effect and a network effect. We attribute 50 to 85 percent of...
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