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We test the hypothesis that retail investors' attraction to lottery stocks induces overvaluation, and is amplified by high attention and social interactions. The lottery premium (negative abnormal returns) is stronger for high-retail-ownership stocks—especially those that also have high analyst co...
Keywords: Preference for lottery-like stocks, investor attention, social interactions, social network, MAX, skewness, retail investors
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Theories of customer supplier relationships hold that the private information of suppliers about buyers explains the use of trade credit even when there is a competitive banking sector. If suppliers possess private information about their buyers, then the buyer’s order size and ability to pay on t...
Keywords: trade credit, non-bank lending, customer-supplier relationships, Stock Returns, private information
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This study quantifies the importance of a Global Financial Cycle (GFCy) for capital flows.  We use capital flow data dis-aggregated by direction and type between 1990Q1 and 2015Q4 for 85 countries, and conventional techniques, models and metrics.  Since the GFCy is an unobservable concept, we use ...
Keywords: empirical, data, center, country, panel, fit, VIX, equity, bonds, FDI, Credit
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We explore the effect of negative nominal interest rates on bank profitability and behavior using non‐structural techniques and a cross‐country panel of over 5,200 banks in 27 countries.  Our data set includes annual observations for Japanese and European banks between 2010 and 2017, and covers...
Keywords: zero, effective, lower, bound, data, firm, empirical, regression, panel, deposit, size
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A country's exports rise when its leadership is approved by other countries.  I show this using a standard gravity model of bilateral exports, a panel of data from 2006 through 2017, and an annual Gallup survey which asks people in up to 157 countries whether they approve of the job performance of ...
Keywords: empirical, panel, data, gravity, Gallup, leadership, approval, positive, international
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