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  • Buss, Joseph; Monteiro, Ana; Balitrand, Julie; Richter, Paul; Oehlen, Jens (2019)
    We study the effects of the #BlackLivesMatter movement on the law abiding behavior of African-Americans. First, we derive a conceptual framework to illustrate changes in risk perceptions across different races. Second, we ...
  • Agarwal, Sunidhi; Ariznavarreta, Ignacio; Chamseddine, Nour; Gonçalves, Ricardo; Oliva, Ignacio (2022-07)
    The following paper examines the downgrading in job status that immigrant workers suffer when settling in a new country. We consider the massive Venezuelan exodus and the impacts this shock had on the job outcomes of ...
  • Andonie, Alfredo; Degler, Moritz; Greppi, Andrea; Pisati, Lorenzo; Yagman, Ece (2017)
    We investigate the effects of intellectual property products capital in the evolution of the labor share for five European countries. Using post-revision national accounts data, we construct a benchmark labor share with ...
  • Penfold, Kai; Ravinet, Raphael (2024-06)
    It has been well documented in the literature that the inclusion of realized measures into GARCH models can lead to both statistical and economic gains through improved forecasting performance. In this paper, we employ the ...
  • Ozkaya, Guneykan; Wang, Yaping (2020)
    In this paper, we combine several Multi-Armed bandit algorithms with methodologies from finance literature and apply it to portfolio choice problem. Our results show that when we combine bandit algorithms with methodologies ...
  • Cigna, Simone; Figueiras, Isabel; Giribaldi, Antonio; Schwingeler, Franziska (2022-07-22)
    This literature review focuses on the contribution of the heterogeneous agents framework to the empirical robustness of macroeconomic models. First, we focus on the transmission of monetary policy in an economy characterized ...
  • Fernandez, Oscar; Fonseca, Sergio; Magnini, Gino; Marcelli Fabiani, Riccardo; Nobile, Claudia (2021-07-13)
    We construct a theoretical Overlapping Generations (OLG) model to describe how sovereign debt crises can propagate in the economy under certain financial constraints. When prices of bonds fall due to perceived sovereign ...
  • Bahuguna, Shaily; Heer, Davina; Lago, Manuel; Loras, Diego; Toietta, Chiara (2019)
    This paper aims to find a pattern in the evolution of altruistic and cooperative behaviour whilst distinguishing across different types of schools in Spain. In specific, we design a controlled laboratory experiment by ...
  • Altmeyer, Patrick; Grapendal, Jacob Daniel; Pravosud, Makar; Quintana, Gand Derry (2018)
    This paper evaluates the calibration method of the Heston model presented by Alòs, De Santiago, and Vives (2015). We propose a slightly more efficient configuration of the optimization procedure by introducing initial ...
  • Bongini, Mattia (2017)
    
We present a tradeoff model of capital structure to investigate the sources of adjustment costs and study how firms' financing decisions determine partial adjustment toward target leverage ratios. The presence of market ...
  • González, Oriol; Irisarri, Marko; Iglesias, Santiago; Beristain, Asier; Cabado, Manuel (2019)
    Weak identification is known to yield unreliable standard instrumental variables inference. A large literature has focused on addressing this issue by proposing methods to detect weak instruments, mainly through the ...
  • Amaral, Ignacio; Bosque, Laia; Morazzoni, Marta; Pérez, Laura; Tang, Chang (2018)
    Since the Great Recession, macroeconomic literature has highlighted the role of agents’ expectations in determining real economic dynamics. The aim of this paper is to study the role of media coverage of negative economic ...
  • Bogatyreva, Natalya S.; Grandez, Rodrigo; Rodríguez Apolinar, Sergio; Soldevilla, Abraham (2019)
    The Black and Scholes model (BS) assumes that the volatility of an asset is constant over the trading period. As a result, BS returns a flat volatility surface. This assumption fails to capture the asset’s volatility ...
  • Ito, Hirotaka; Özen, Kadir (2021-07)
    2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis led to European debt crisis leaving the periphery of euro zone with very high borrowing costs compared to core countries. When Covid-19 Pandemic Crisis hit the economies, unconventional ...
  • Ortiz de Zevallos, Alejandro (2021-06)
    IFRS 9, which changes the estimation of Loan Loss Provisions from an Incurred Loss model to an Expected Credit Loss model, entered into application in 2018. It changed the focus to a forward-looking perspective, which ...
  • Gutiérrez, Jordi; Kellner, Domenic; King, Philip; Neumeyer, Simon; Scibisz, Dorota (2018)
    We identify contemporaneous and Granger-causal linkages between the 86 biggest companies, representing both the financial and real sectors, of the Eurozone economy that serve as paths of shock transmission. Network analysis ...
  • García, Alejandro; Kelly, Thomas; Seguí, Joan (2020-07)
    Previous research has identified stealth trading by informed participants as a primary driver of price discovery in equity markets. Using two distinct empirical approaches, this paper extends the stealth trading literature ...
  • Aliyeva, Farida; Bertez, Conrad; Kaithakkel, Aswathi John; Mostacci, Maurizio; Özcan, Elif (2017)
    In the wake of the global financial crisis that began in 2007, central banks throughout the world engaged in unprecented amounts of monetary policy aimed at stimulating their respective economies. One frequent comment from ...
  • Barrera, Marc de la; Falath, Juraj; Henricot, Dorian; Vaglio, Jean-Alexandre (2017)
    This paper empirically investigates the impact of forward guidance announcements on inflation expectations in the Eurozone. The ECB first resorted to forward guidance on July 4, 2013 thereby expanding its array of ...
  • Carpentier, Sebastián; Carrera, Daniel; Miranda, Antonio; Requejo, Fernando; Rojano, Joan (2023-06)
    Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity design we estimate the effect of a country-wide free tuition policy on university enrollment and attrition in Chile. Exploiting an administrative dataset of the 2019 cohort of applicants ...

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