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Showing 1 to 20 of 5542 for “"markets"”.
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Sensing the markets: the crisis of Turkish financial markets
… argue that traders’ interactions with financial markets are not simply taken-for-granted, mediating action between an unmarked user and replicable, conventionalized technologies. Instead, I show that these interactions are entangled with memories, other humans, technologies, and conditions. …
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Analyzing frequent acquires in emerging markets and futures markets linkage
… the returns to frequent acquirers from emerging markets and analyzes the cross-country variations in cumulative abnormal returns. The sample consists of 5,147 transactions carried out by firms from 17 common and civil-law countries during the period of January 1985 to June 2008. I find that the …
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International Financial Markets
<p>This dissertation consists of two essays: one looks at the cross-country variations in volume-price variability relationship and cultural and other country factors, and the other looks at cause and effects of large one-day price changes in commodity futures.</p> <p>The first essay presented in …
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Online Auction Markets
… Although</p><p>theoretical research on two-sided markets is abundant, this</p><p>dissertation focuses on their use in e-commerce and adopts an</p><p>empirical orientation. I assume an empirical orientation because I</p><p>seek to guide firm behavior with concrete policy recommendations …
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Decentralized Data Markets
… thesis, I describe a decentralized model of data markets to overcome privacy concerns in siloed, data-limited domains such as healthcare. I propose two federated techniques to automatically select a subset of data sellers and datapoints for a buyer given some sample data. I also examine the …
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Housing markets : Mexico
… This study provides an outlook of the housing markets in Mexico and includes an analysis of what is currently being done to measure and forecast housing demand. The thesis concludes with rigorous economics analysis intended to forecast markets through a Vector Autoregression (VAR) Model. The …
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The Effects of Options Markets on the Underlying Markets: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This dissertation consists of three essays in applied financial economics. The unifying theme is the use of financial regulation as quasi-experiments to understand the interrelationship between derivatives and the underlying assets. The first two essays use different quasi-experimental econometric …
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Imperfect competition in product markets and labor markets, general equilibrium and unemployment
In this thesis it is analyzed if promoting product market competition can help to to fight unemployment in Europe. We have used a general equilibrium model in order to study how reducing mark-ups and increasing productivity in one sector affect aggregate unemployment for an exogenously given …
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Efficiency-risk tradeoffs in dynamic oligopoly markets : with application to electricity markets
… risk arises in different dynamic oligopolistic markets. We consider a scenario where there is a reliable resource provider and agents which enter and exit the market following a random process. Self-interested and fully rational agents can both produce and consume the resource. They dynamically …
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Dynamic markets for lemons
Este trabalho investiga o papel da sinalização em um mercado dinâmico de limões. Nós derivamos propriedades gerais dos equilíbrios, e em particular dos equilíbrios totalmente separantes. O equilíbrio separante mais eficiente permite que trocas ocorram em todos os períodos para tos os …
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Institutions and Drug Markets
… effects of prohibition, privacy, and clandestine markets on producer behavior for these two drugs and the unintended consequences that result. I demonstrate that cannabis and methamphetamine producers both face substantial transaction costs and that producers alter their behavior to manage these …
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Essays on Education Markets
… educational disparities in the matching markets of high school choice and college admissions. The first chapter, joint with Ph.D. students Victor Delgado and Rui Zeng, studies the spatial inequality issue in high school choice within the context of the centralized system of public high …
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Essays on Financial Markets
This dissertation contains three chapters. In the first chapter, I test whether margin requirements cause asset price volatility. Using novel data on margin requirements and by exploiting exogenous variation from a threshold-based regression discontinuity design, I document that increasing margin …
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Essays on Financial Markets
… with different issues related to financial markets. Chapter 2 studies a new multivariate technique, Orthogonal GARCH, of forecasting large covariance matrices based on GARCH models. Orthogonal GARCH is built on principal component analysis and makes the creation of positive definite …
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Essays in Housing Markets
<p>The essays in housing markets contained within this dissertation examine the effect of policy decisions on housing market outcomes in the emerging market context of China and the developed market context of US. Specifically, I estimate the effect of demand- and supply-side quantitative …
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Essays in Currency Markets
<p>This dissertation is comprised of three chapters, all with the aim to better understand currency behavior. The first chapter brings well-known, profitable currency trading signals to bear on the Meese-Rogoff puzzle (Meese and Rogoff (1983)), a robust finding regarding the difficulty of …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… dimension of inequality in modern labour markets. Each chapter analyses the individual-level behaviours of workers or firms that underpin regional and aggregate distributional features of labour markets. Together, they address cross-sectional wage inequality policy at the national level, …
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Options in emerging markets.
Index options are traded in many derivatives markets around the world. These derivatives markets can either operate in efficient or inefficient markets. Most derivatives markets use the best known option pricing model, i. e. the Black and Scholes Option Pricing Model, in order to produce …
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Essays on matching markets
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Expectations in Financial Markets
Uncertainty pervades financial markets. How financial market participants form expectations when faced with uncertainty is therefore central to the study of financial markets. This thesis contains three chapters each highlighting the role of expectations formation in determining outcomes in …
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