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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Contrarianism"”.
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Essays on Information in Financial Markets
… switch in the direction of the crowd. Similarly, contrarianism occurs when traders ignore their private information to switch against the crowd. Using NYSE TAQ tick data, we estimate our model by maximum likelihood and show that it fits the data significantly better than existing models by Easley …
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Defeating Cap-and-Trade: Contrarian Access, Organised Disinformation, and the Influence of Fossil Fuel Money in Congress
This dissertation examines how the fossil fuel industry and the broader climate change counter-movement influenced the U.S. congressional debate over cap-and-trade legislation between 2003 and 2010. While extensive scholarship has traced the ideological and institutional foundations of climate …