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Forward Premium Puzzle
… is costly. This is why we observe the UIP puzzle in many developed countries where inflation rates are low. In Chapter 2, we cast doubt on these claims of the models by empirically examining the cross-country data. In essence, we argue that these models appear to solve the "nominal puzzle" …
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Circumscribing China’s NPL "Puzzle"
… very recently been focused toward the holistic "puzzle" of China's NPL issue, and it could be considered worthwhile to simply attempt to trace a broad outline of the issue. The aim of this study is two-fold: first, it attempts to basically identify and circumscribe the different "puzzle pieces" …
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Pieces to the puzzle
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Stock Option Returns, a Puzzle
Under very weak assumptions, the expected returns of European call options must be positive and increasing in the strike price. This paper investigates the returns to call options on individual stocks that do not have an ex-dividend day prior to expiration. The main findings are that over the 1996 …
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The Puzzle of Victim-Anger
In this paper I raise a puzzle that I call 'the puzzle of victim-anger' that is parallel to Bernard William's puzzle of agent-regret. Suppose a truck driver is driving down the street when a child happens to walk in front of them. Through no fault of their own, the driver hits and kills the child. …
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The excess smoothness puzzle in consumption
<p>This paper discusses the "excess smoothness" puzzle which means that permanent income is more volatile than consumption. There have been two major explanations of this puzzle. One is that the existence of excess sensitivity spreads the effect of a permanent income innovation over multiple …
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Essays on the Equity Premium Puzzle
<p>The equity premium puzzle emanates from the inability of the theoretical models to explain the empirically observed high equity premium (when the average stock returns so much higher than the average bond returns). The puzzle is that in order to reconcile the much higher return on stock compared …
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Can Animal Spirits Solve The Forward Premium Puzzle?
… anomaly known as the "Forward Premium Puzzle" into three main chapters. Chapter 1 explores the state of research pertaining to the Forward Premium Puzzle, which derives from a failure in the Uncovered Interest Parity (UIP). The body of literature is split into three branches i. Those …
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The municipal puzzle : a review of the literature
… This contradiction is known as the Municipal Puzzle. In this thesis, we critically assess the various theories advanced so far to explain the municipal puzzle. After considering the evidence, we identify the tax avoidance theory as being on balance the most likely candidate. The thesis then …
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Testimonial Injustice and the Puzzle of Hearer Culpability
This paper identifies a puzzle in Miranda Fricker's account of testimonial injustice, the puzzle of hearer culpability: how is it possible for hearers to be culpable for beliefs they form on the basis of stereotypes and prejudices that regularly bypass conscious thought? In trying to solve this …
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Action Intentions and the Puzzle of Non-Willed Behaviour
It feels intuitive that our actions are intentional, but there is considerable debate about whether (and how) humans control their behaviour. Ideomotor models of action argue that action intentions have a fundamentally perceptual format. In these views, actions are not only controlled by …
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The municipal bond valuation puzzle : evidence from U.S. States
… Jiang et al. (2020)'s "government debt valuation puzzle" by adapting their approach to the setting of state-level municipal debt. The main motivation in doing so is that states do not issue their own currencies, and are therefore precluded from monetizing the value of their debt through inflation. …
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THE I: A CLIENT-BASED POINT-AND-CLICK PUZZLE GAME
… Though seldom created for phones and tablets, puzzle games are a perfect fit. In recent years, the genre has gained a following and even won some acclaim. Games like Myst, The Seventh Guest and Portal all engage gamers with challenging puzzles and then reward them with story components upon …
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Completing the Puzzle: Exploring Possible Antecedents to Rape Myth Acceptance
<p>Rape myths are commonly accepted, but usually false, attitudes and beliefs about the act of rape, the perpetrators, and most often the victims (Aronowitz, Lambert, & Davidoff, 2012). Studies have shown that the endorsement of rape myth attitudes influences not only the likelihood of a sexual …
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Tarsia Puzzle: An Interactive Activity for the Middle School Mathematics Classroom
… and customize engaging mathematical jigsaw puzzles to fit into their instruction. From arithmetic to calculus content, students have engaged in learning mathematics using this instructional practice. The goal of the activity is to assemble the puzzle so that a particular shape will be …
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The puzzle of long swings in equity markets: Which way forward?
<p>The main purpose of this dissertation is to determine which class of models -- bubble or Imperfect Knowledge Economics (IKE) -- provides the better account of short-term stock price fluctuations -- and thus long-swings -- on the basis of empirical evidence. However, it is not clear how to test …
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The puzzle of the indian boy in a Midsummer Night's Dream
The Puzzle of the Indian Boy in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” challenges interpretations of the play which posit an east Indian prince and an east Indian location for Titania’s lengthy description of “India” in Act Two, Scene One. Such interpretations appear to have originated in Purcell’s late 17th …
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The Art of Racing: Cracking the Puzzle of Programs Supporting Startup Creation
The purpose of the present thesis, which is the main result of the author’s doctoral journey, is to decode initiatives to support startup creation: entrepreneurship education programmes and startup competitions. This thesis explores the topic from a dual perspective: theoretical and empirical. From …
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