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Stock Market Tournament [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
We study an optimal contracting problem between shareholders and managers when managers’ effort choices are hidden but on which stock market prices reveal some information. When the stock market rewards winners and punishes losers within an industry, stock-based incentive generates a tournament effect and causes strategic complementarity among managers
Emre Ozdenoren, Kathy Yuan
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THE OUTLOOK FOR THE STOCK MARKET

The Journal of Finance, 1963
ATTEMPTING TO ANTICIPATE the future trend of stock prices is a perilous and usually unrewarding business. Yet there is probably no more fascinating problem facing the student of finance and economics. The search for reliable results is greatly complicated by the fact that one is often in doubt as to where the market is now, as well as being uncertain ...
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The Stock Market Tips

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
We investigate the influence of public companies on their local economies through the spending of their employees on local goods and services. Using the taxicab industry in New York City as a laboratory, we find that tips paid for taxis taken near firms’ headquarters are higher on the days their stock returns are higher.
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Visualizing the stock market

CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '99, 1999
We describe a new 2-dimensional visualization algorithm capable of presenting detailed information on hundreds of items while emphasizing overall patterns in the data. This display method, which builds on Shneiderman's treemap technique, makes use of both hierarchy and similarity information.
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Stock Market Manipulations*

The Journal of Business, 2006
We present theory and evidence of stock price manipulation. Manipulators trade in the presence of other traders seeking information about the stock’s true value. More information seekers imply greater competition for shares, making it easier for manipulators to trade and potentially worsening market efficiency.
Rajesh K. Aggarwal, Guojun Wu
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Marketable Securities and the Stock Market

1984
Fortunately, Fred Daly’s setback and decline as reported in chapter 2 was entirely mythical, and in fact his early success was merely the start of a long term trend of continually rising profits, deriving largely from an expansion in the number of his shop outlets, and diversification into records, toys, games and miscellaneous goods.
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College or the Stock Market, or College and the Stock Market?

FEDS Notes, 2017
In this note, we document facts about the relationship between stock market participation and a predominant form of human capital investment -- formal higher education. We examine, using the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the relationship between stock market participation and college enrollment and completion, with attention to the presence or ...
Kartik Athreya   +2 more
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The Stock Market and the Fed

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
The paper investigates the reaction of the Federal Reserve to developments in the stock market. The issue is analyzed by first constructing an Index of Stock Price Misalignement in which the fundamental value of the stocks is computed on the basis of the discounted cash flow approach and by then including this index, among the regressors, into a ...
MATTESINI, FABRIZIO, BECCHETTI, LEONARDO
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The Market for Borrowing Stock

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2002
Abstract To short a stock, an arbitrageur must first borrow it. This paper describes the market for borrowing and lending U.S. equities, emphasizing the conditions generating and sustaining short-sale constraints. A large institutional lending intermediary provided eighteen months (4/2000–9/2001) of data on loan supply (“shortability”), loan fees ...
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Asymmetries in stock markets

European Journal of Operational Research, 2015
Abstract This paper analyzes three major asymmetries in stock markets, namely, asymmetry in return reversals, asymmetry in return persistency and asymmetry in return volatilities. It argues for a case of return persistency as stock returns do not always reverse, in theory and in practice.
Peijie Wang, Bing Zhang, Yun Zhou
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