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Stock Market Cycles and Stock Market Development in Spain.

open access: yes, 2002
Gómez-Biscarri, J. (Javier)   +1 more
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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   +2 more
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Stock market aversion? Political preferences and stock market participation [PDF]

open access: possibleJournal of Financial Economics, 2010
We find that left-wing voters and politicians are less likely to invest in stocks, controlling for income, wealth, education, and other relevant factors. This finding from unique data sets in Finland is robust both at the zip code and at the individual level. A moderate left voter is 17-20% less likely to own stocks than a moderate right voter.
Torstila, Sami, Kaustia, Markku
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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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Oil and the Stock Markets

The Journal of Finance, 1996
ABSTRACTWe test whether the reaction of international stock markets to oil shocks can be justified by current and future changes in real cash flows and/or changes in expected returns. We find that in the postwar period, the reaction of United States and Canadian stock prices to oil shocks can be completely accounted for by the impact of these shocks on
Jones, Charles M, Kaul, Gautam
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TAKEOVERS AND THE STOCK MARKET

Contributions to Political Economy, 1987
In a market economy the stock exchange has a triple role, first to pool together society’s savings dispersed among individual savers; second to channel selectively these savings to companies with the best investment prospects, and third to encourage the efficient use of assets embodying past savings. Two interrelated mechanisms are involved.
Hughes, Alan, Singh, Ajit
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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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