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Pageant Media Ltd2024Machine Learning for Modeling Stock Returns
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EPFL2024Takeover Protections and Asset Prices
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Catonsville2024Asset life, leverage, and debt maturity matching
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Lausanne2024Distributional justice, effectiveness, and costs of current and alternative solar PV incentive schemes in Switzerland
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2024Frihet, sikkerhet, forstaden: Brev fra Amerika
Why have countries formerly leading public policies of housing – Norway, the U.K., France, etc. – shifted towards privatizing accommodation from the late 1970s? Have these States merely let go of housing and handed it over to private interests in the name ...
2024Tiers of joy? Reserve tiering and bank behavior in a negative-rate environment
Negative interest rate regimes typically involve reserve tiering to exempt a portion of bank reserves from negative rates. We study the effects on bank behavior of a large and unanticipated change in reserve tiering by the Swiss National Bank that generate ...
2024How Integrated are Credit and Equity Markets? Evidence from Index Options
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We study the extent to which credit index (CDX) options are priced consistent with S&P 500 (SPX) equity index options. We derive analytical expressions for CDX and SPX options within a structural credit-risk model with stochastic volatility and jumps using ...
Hoboken2024Circularity by stock in Sri Lanka: Economic necessity meets urban fabric renovation
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Persistent fiscal and political mismanagement, together with the financial pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, have driven Sri Lanka into a social and economic crisis triggering a decrease in national foreign exchange reserves, an inability to purchase vit ...
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