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Industry Portfolio Volatility Connections and Industry Portfolio Returns
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper tracks dynamic connections that form among daily US industry portfolio return volatilities using a Bayesian time‐varying parameter VAR model. Market participants often focus on sectors to filter vast amounts of information, and this focus results in cross‐industry return predictability. We characterise connections that form over the
Michael Ellington +2 more
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Management and Microeconomics: A Historical Comparison between the British and the French Traditions
ŒconomiaThis article seeks to analyse the circumstances and the nature of the emergence of management research in economic analysis in the 1950s in Britain and France.
Lise Arena, Richard Arena
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How Is FinTech Shaping Household Portfolio Behaviour?
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines how FinTech adoption influences household portfolio allocation across major advanced economies. Using a flow‐of‐funds framework and the Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we model household demand for currency, deposits, loans, debt securities, and equity in the United States, United Kingdom, Euro Area, Japan and Australia.
Victor Murinde, Athina Petropoulou
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SOLUTION TO OVERCOME THE BANKRUPTCY POTENTIAL OF ISLAMIC RURAL BANK IN INDONESIA
Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance, 2018 This paper investigates the direct and indirect effect of macro and microeconomics variables toward financial distress by using efficiency variable as mediator.
Abrista Devi, Irman Firmansyah
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The Impact of Economic Growth on Insurance (Growth)
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the impact of economic growth on insurance (growth), focusing on the outflow side of the insurance activity, as captured by benefits (including commissions and expenses). The findings provide evidence that economic growth does exert a positive, statistically significant impact on the benefit side of insurance (growth ...
Nicholas Apergis +2 more
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, 2016 Microeconomics: A Critical Companion offers students a clear and concise exposition of mainstream microeconomics from a heterodox perspective. Covering topics from consumer and producer theory to general equilibrium to perfect competition, it sets the ...
Ben Fine, Fine, Ben
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Identifying Peer Effects in Networks with Unobserved Effort and Isolated Students
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Peer influence on effort devoted to some activity is often studied when effort is unobserved, and the researcher instead observes an outcome that combines effort with other shocks. For instance, in education, achievement measures such as GPA reflect both effort and idiosyncratic GPA shocks.
Aristide Houndetoungan +2 more
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Bayesian Model Averaging in Causal Instrumental Variable Models
Journal of Applied Econometrics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Instrumental variables are a popular tool to infer causal effects under unobserved confounding, but choosing suitable instruments is challenging in practice. We propose gIVBMA, a Bayesian model averaging procedure that addresses this challenge by averaging across different sets of instrumental variables and covariates in a structural equation ...
Gregor Steiner, Mark Steel
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving
Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton +6 more
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Does a Financial Crisis Affect Operating Risk? Evidence from Polish Listed Companies
Economics and Business Review, 2018 In turbulent times of crisis the variability of both EBIT and operating revenue increase in comparison to a relatively stable post crisis period. The main aim of this paper is to investigate this relationship across these two periods.
Kalinowski Sławomir, Puziak Marcin
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