Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2014

Identifying the effects of “flights to safety” on asset prices using pure time-series methods is difficult because crises are infrequent. We develop a new cross-sectional identification approach, motivated by the insight that investors may differ in their “preferred habitats” within a broad ...
Keywords: house prices, foreign demand, safe-haven, London, political risk, price-pressure
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Corporate Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2014

We examine the effect of competition shocks induced by major industry-level tariff cuts on forced CEO turnover. Both the likelihood of forced CEO turnover and its sensitivity to performance increase. These effects are stronger for firms exposed to greater predation risk and with products more simila...
Keywords: Product Market Competition, Forced CEO Turnover, Corporate governance
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Corporate Finance

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May 2014

In the UK, between 1955 and 1970, dual class shares quickly lost popularity without any regulatory intervention. The decline in the use of dual class shares was positively correlated with the relative valuations of one-share-one-vote and dual class firms, which in turn was related to media pessimism...
Keywords: Corporate governance, Dual class shares, Investor demand, Public debate
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2014

We investigate the link between real exchange rates and sectoral TFP for eurozone countries. We show that real exchange rate variation, both cross-country and time-series, closely accords with an amended Balassa-Samuelson interpretation, incorporating sectoral productivity shocks and a labor market ...
Keywords: Real Exchange Rates, Eurozone, productivity
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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking

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May 2014

The recent global crisis saw a sharp decline in output, but the accompanying decline in international trade volumes was twice as big. But, in the 1990s boom international trade volume increase much more than output levels. Why is international trade so volatile? The paper develops a parsimonious gen...
Keywords: Risk shifting, International trade, trade volatility, financial openness
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