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The current paper broadens the understanding for the role of uncertainty in the context of a macroeconomic environment. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks on indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area countries...
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The current paper broadens the understanding of the role played by uncertainty in the context of macroeconomic fluctuations. It focuses on the implications of uncertainty shocks for indicators that tend to precede financial crises. In an empirical analysis we show for a set of four euro area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103607
During the recent financial crisis, there was a dramatic spike, across all industries, in the volatility of individual firm share prices after adjustment for movements in the market as a whole. In this Article, we demonstrate that a similar spike has occurred with each major downturn in the...
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We examine whether corporate accessibility to outside market participants can mitigate stock price crash risk in a weak … firms have a lower stock price crash risk than inaccessible firms, and that this effect increases with firms' geographic …
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relationship between short-term changes in financial distress risk and future stock price crashes. This result is economically …-fixed effect estimations, and alternative definitions of distress and crash risk measures; they are also robust to a range of tests …-crash risk relationship is driven by managerial opportunism that seeks to camouflage bad news that has an adverse effect on firms …
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Numerous researchers study stock price crashes, but most of this work focuses on the causes of crashes rather than their consequences. We consider the impact of crashes on a broad range of stakeholders, including analysts, investors, management, and employees. Analysts and investors pay more...
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This paper investigates the impact of news media sentiment on financial market returns and volatility in the long-term. We hypothesize that the way the media formulate and present news to the public produces different perceptions and, thus, incurs different investor behavior. To analyze such...
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downward sloping term structure of low-frequency variance risk premia in normal times. In periods of distress, the term …
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crash risk. We find that firms managed by married CEOs are associated with lower future stock price crash risk, after … controlling for a set of firm characteristics and CEO traits. We document that CEO marriage reduces crash risk by acting as a … CEO marriage on crash risk is more pronounced among firms with weaker corporate governance and those run by male, younger …
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