Download or read book Three Empirical Essays in Finance and Macroeconomics written by David Michael Modest and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Macroeconomics and Empirical Finance written by Hyosung Yeo and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance written by Peng Liu and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empirical Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance written by Karolina Holmberg and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance written by David Henry Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Empirical Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance written by Matteo Modena and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three essays on empirical finance written by Tse-Chun Lin and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics written by Chung-Eun Lee and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Macroeconomics and Finance written by Tom Niklas Kroner and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation consists of three independent chapters focusing on empirical questions in macroeconomics and finance. In Chapter 1, I study the role of firms’ uncertainty in the transmission of forward guidance to investment. To do so, I employ a quarterly firm-level panel of U.S. publicly traded firms. I measure forward guidance shocks based on unexpected changes in the slope of the yield curve in a 30-minute window around Federal Reserve announcements. I show that firms which are more uncertain adjust their investment as if they are more pessimistic. More uncertain firms adjust their investment relatively more downward for expected monetary tightenings and relatively less upward for expected loosenings. To explain my empirical findings, I construct a New Keynesian model with a high-uncertainty and a low-uncertainty sector. Agents in the high-uncertainty sector are ambiguous (Knightian uncertain) about the informativeness of forward guidance, and choose to take a pessimistic stance due to their ambiguity aversion. The model implies that expansionary forward guidance is less powerful in recessions due to a larger share of uncertain agents. In Chapter 2, joint with Christoph Boehm, we provide evidence for a causal link between the US economy and the global financial cycle. Using a unique intraday dataset, we show that US macroeconomic news releases have large and significant effects on global risky asset prices. Stock price indexes of 27 countries, the VIX, and commodity prices all jump instantaneously upon news releases. The responses of stock indexes co-move across countries and are large—often comparable in size to the response of the S&P 500. Further, US macroeconomic news frequently explains more than 15% of the quarterly variation in foreign stock markets. The joint behavior of stock prices and long-term bond yields suggests that systematic US monetary policy reactions to news do not drive the estimated effects. Instead, the evidence is consistent with a direct effect on investors’ risk-taking capacity. Our findings show that a byproduct of the United States’ central position in the global financial system is that news about its business cycle has large effects on global financial conditions. In Chapter 3, joint with Christoph Boehm, we are trying to better understand how FOMC announcements affect the stock market. A large literature uses high-frequency changes in interest rates around FOMC announcements to study monetary policy. These yield changes have puzzlingly low explanatory power for the stock market—even in a narrow 30-minute window. We propose a new approach to test whether the unexplained variation represents monetary policy news or just noise. In particular, we allow for a latent “Fed non-yield curve shock”, which we estimate via a heteroskedasticity-based procedure. Using a test for weak identification, we show that our shock is well identified, that is, the unexplained variation is not just noise. We then go on to show that the shock, signed to increase stock prices, leads to sizable declines in the equity and variance premium, an increase in the 10-year term premium, an increase in short-run inflation expectations, as well as a dollar depreciation against multiple non-safe-haven currencies. Hence, the evidence supports the interpretation that the shock affects risk-appetite and leads to a reverse “flight-to-safety” effect. Lastly, using a method from the computational linguistics literature, we show that our shock can be linked to specific topics discussed in FOMC statements, suggesting that it reflects written communication by the Federal Reserve

Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics written by Christopher C. Douglas and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics written by Konrad Adler and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis contains three essays in empirical macroeconomics. The main focus is on firm financing. In the first chapter, I study the impact of financial covenants on firms' behavior and in particular the impact on investment. Financial covenants are conditions present in almost all bank loan contracts. When a firm does not satisfy those conditions, which are accounting ratios such as a maximal debt to earnings ratio, the bank has the right to call back the loan. In most cases banks use covenant breaches to lower the loan size or adjust other loan terms. I document that around 80% of firms are subject to covenants and most of the covenants are based on a firm's income. For the Great Recession, I use hand-collected data on firms' credit limits to estimate the contribution of income covenants to the credit crunch. I find that about a third of credit line decreases can be plausibly attributed to income covenants. Motivated by these facts, I incorporate an income covenant into an otherwise standard heterogeneous firms model. In a calibrated version of the model I find that income covenants reduce aggregate investment by 1.3% compared to a model without financial frictions. I document that the cost from precaution, i.e. firms borrowing and investing less because they want to avoid a covenant breach, is larger than the direct cost of lower credit supply after a covenant breach. Regressions on simulated firm-level data yield very similar effects of the direct and precautionary effects of income covenants compared to actual data. In the second chapter, Jae-Bin Ahn, Mai Chi Dao and I, document a broad-based increase in cash holdings at the firm level during the last two decades. We build a simple model in which lower trade barriers increase firms' incentives to innovate. Because innovation is risky, firms increase their liquidity holdings when tariffs fall. We test these predictions using firm-level data from five large countries and find that expanding export opportunities and, to a lesser extent, increased import competition, raise cash holdings among incumbent firms. In support of our channel, we find this effect to be stronger among firms investing in R&D. In the third chapter, Simon Fuchs and I look at the global movie market. We show that the revenue share of sequels and adaptations of books has increased dramatically over the last two decades. During the same period the global movie market has become geographically more diverse, i.e. the revenue generated in the US has declined. We connect these two stylized facts in a model where movie studios can release one movie to a market that consists of countries with different taste. Additionally, studios face uncertainty concerning the location of a movie in the taste space. We estimate the global taste space based on market shares. We investigate whether the change in the composition of global demand can account for the increase in the revenue share of sequels. Our current results suggest this is not the case.

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance written by Thierry Albert Wizman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays on Empirical Macroeconomics and International Financial Markets written by Tim Leelahaphan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in International Finance and Macroeconomics written by Eiji Fujii and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of the three essays composing this dissertation investigates important economic and econometric issues in international finance and macroeconomics. The first essay, “Market Structure and the Persistence of Sectoral Deviations from Purchasing Power Parity,” examines the relationship between market structure and the persistence of the dollar-based sectoral real exchange rates for fourteen OECD countries. The empirical results based on disaggregated data suggest that differences in market structure significantly determine the rates at which deviations from sectoral purchasing power parity decay. Based on the findings, I argue that an imperfectly competitive market structure is an important source of the well-documented persistence in real exchange rates.

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics and Finance written by Tam Huu Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics written by Julian Felix Ludwig and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how expectations are formed and how they interact with economic activities. Beliefs about economic outcomes vary with timing and accuracy of information, which have important implications for macroeconomic dynamics. The importance of expectations has long been emphasized in rational expectations (RE) models (see e.g. Lucas 1972, 1976; Kydland and Prescott 1982), and diffusion of information has been modeled in many ways (see e.g. Beaudry and Portier 2004, 2006; Mankiw and Reis 2002; Woodford 2003; Sims 2003). My work builds on this literature and aims to improve the understanding of information structure, formation of beliefs, and decision-making, and how they contribute to macro business cycles. In the first chapter, I point out how identification of full information rational expectations (FIRE) models suffers from Manski's (1993) reflection problem. I extend the standard rational expectations (RE) model to allow for a more general information structure and introduce a new framework to identify the generalized model with forecaster data. Identification is no longer subject to the reflection problem when two changes are made to the information structure: the addition of news shocks and imperfect information. News shocks provide additional variation in expectations about the future. Imperfect information provides changes in beliefs about past states, through which the feedback between expectations and decisions goes only in one direction. Expectations data are consistent with both. An application to Greenbook forecasts illustrates the importance of both news shocks and learning about the past. When I apply this framework to a Blanchard and Quah (1989) decomposition, I reach qualitatively new results. For example, expansionary supply shocks decrease unemployment. Supply shocks are also particularly subject to both news and information rigidities, so relaxing the information structure is key to correctly identifying these shocks. In the second chapter, I discover how both good and bad news shocks coincide with higher uncertainty on impact. This new stylized fact is robust to different empirical models of the news shocks literature and different proxies for U.S. macro uncertainty. The new stylized fact has implications in three fields. First, bad news shocks produce the dynamics discovered in the uncertainty literature: spikes in uncertainty are followed by drops in output. I show that there is indeed some overlap between bad news and uncertainty shocks, as the effect of an uncertainty shock gets weaker when controlling for bad news shocks. Second, I show that the close relationship between news shocks and uncertainty seems to be also responsible for the close relationship between quarterly stock returns and stock market volatility - a proxy for uncertainty. This contributes to the finance literature that works on this relationship. Third, introducing a non-linear empirical model, I find additional asymmetries in the responses to news shocks due to the asymmetric response of uncertainty. This contributes directly to the news shocks literature. An important conclusion of chapters one and two is that economic shocks vary with availability of information. The third chapter deals with such heterogeneity. I relax the assumption that economic shocks of the same type are homogeneous, respectively, always have the same effect. Instead, I argue that economists identify a shock that consists of a variety of heterogeneous components. For example, a technology shock is the sum of all disaggregate technology shocks, from innovations in marketing up to inventions in the manufacturing process, which all have different effects on the economy. I discuss how standard identification methods can identify the shocks of interest despite this heterogeneity. I find that the weights on the shock components depend on the identification strategy so that different identification strategies produce different effects. This could explain why different macro papers often identify different responses to the same shock, in the same country, and over the same time period

Download or read book Empirical Essays in Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: