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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"economic policy uncertainty"”.
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Three Essays on Political Risk, Economic Policy Uncertainty, and Hedge Fund Returns
… three empirical essays on political risk, economic policy uncertainty, and hedge fund returns, employing a sample over a period of 1990-2017. The first essay investigates the relation between political risk and hedge fund returns and assesses whether the effects of political risk on hedge …
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Analysing the One Certainty that Rules Us All: Trade (and Economic) Policy Uncertainty
My PhD thesis consists of 4 papers that analyse uncertainty, specifically trade policy uncertainty, by examining its best measurement and its impacts on firms’ international and domestic operations. The first paper, “Improving the Trade Policy Uncertainty Index”, studies how best to measure trade …
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Essays on the effect of local offices and economic policy uncertainty in the private equity industry
… with portfolio firm management in times of uncertainty. Results in paper on cross-border investments suggest that the physical presence of a local office of PE firms can actually make a difference for foreign investments. With a local office, operating performance of PE firms is higher after …
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The impact of economic policy uncertainty on cost of capital, stock market development, and debt home and foreign bias: cross country evidence.
… questions. The first investigates the impact of economic policy uncertainty on the cost of capital. The second examines the impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock market development. The third explores the role of economic policy uncertainty on debt home and foreign bias. In the first …
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Testing Market Efficiency of MENA Equity Returns
… efficiencies, studying the most effective macroeconomic variables and the impact of economic policy uncertainty, and transparency on stock returns. The study also investigates how Stock Market Efficiency responds asymmetrically to different macroeconomic policies, transparency, and economic …
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FinTech ecosystem driven economic growth in China under the new normal: from the perspective of households
In the context of rapid economic transition and digital transformation, understanding household financial behaviour in China has become increasingly important for both academic research and public policy. This thesis examines how economic policy uncertainty, digital finance, and income volatility …
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Elections And Asset Pricing: The Politically Sensitive Equity Of Us Military Contractors
<p>I quantify the relationship between political uncertainty and equity volatility in the months around US elections from 1989-2012. The Economic Policy Uncertainty Index and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) data are employed to measure political uncertainty faced by …
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Overconfidence and real estate research
… homebuyers, the trading volume response to economic policy uncertainty is less significant compared with those with non-overconfident homebuyers. Findings in the three fields provide useful implications for researchers and practitioners on overconfidence studies in real estate research.