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(2018-08-18)Master EconomicsThis paper examines investors’ reference point and satisfaction. We demonstrate that investors’ reference point and satisfaction are heavily affected by stock and market returns. Using an experimental design, we analyze ... -
(2017-08-17)Master EconomicsAsset-Backed securities (ABSs) have dominated the U.S. financial markets between the period of the late 90s and 2007; the start of the financial crisis. This was due to the rise of subprime mortgage lending within the U.S. ... -
(2017-06-02)Master EconomicsThis paper investigates whether bitcoin as an investment asset offers diversification benefits, more specific whether bitcoin has hedge or safe haven properties. Bitcoin is a decentralized digital cryptographic currency ...
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(2017-07-11)Master EconomicsSince the launch of Bitcoin ten years ago, there has been a proliferation of digital currencies with market capitalizations of billions of dollars, growing academic literature and a mixed reception. These new currencies ...
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(2018-08-23)Master EconomicsFor the past 3 decades in interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown tremendously. The research on this topic has focused in many directions but always ended up with contradictory results. The purpose ...
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(2017-08-28)Master EconomicsBehavioral insights from (Cumulative) Prospect Theory (CPT) as an innovative theory of decision-making revolutionized financial risk research. Despite its theoretical appeal, the empirical relevance of CPT with regard to ...
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(2017-07-13)Master EconomicsThis study examines the role of the last financial crisis on the firm-specific determinants and different sectors of capital structure on firms in the US and Thailand. Specifically, I investigate whether there is a change ...
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(2016-10-28)Master EconomicsPsychology studies have showed that current mood can influence risky decision making. When the mood of a large part of the society (i.e. the social mood) is affected in a similar direction, this is then expected to affect ...
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(2018-08-08)Master EconomicsThis thesis examines the implications of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) narrowing the traditional banking system. The traditional banking system gets narrowed when commercial banks main source of funding (retail ...
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(2016-11-28)Master EconomicsThis paper gives a comprehensive analysis of the difference in financial exposure towards the Euro Area and towards the US of global investors. It finds that, although the US is by far the number 1 destination of foreign ...
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(2016-08-30)Master EconomicsFinance theory indicates that corporate hedging can increase firm value by reducing costs of taxes, financial distress and agency costs, and by reducing cash flow volatility. This paper covers both a direct effect of ...
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(2018-07-12)Master EconomicsThis thesis uses the model in Hendrickson, Hogan, and Luther (2016) as a basis for an extended trading model that includes hackers. In addition, it shows how two measures - a government tax and private security - can help ...
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(2018-08-15)Master EconomicsThis paper examines whether an individual’s risk-taking changes when s/he is taking a decision for someone else. Using an online experiment with a mixed subject pool of bankers, managers and students, with gain loss and ...
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(2018-08-21)Master EconomicsIn this paper we study the determinants of bank profitability in the post-crisis period for banks located in the Euro Area. Current literature has only focused on the pre-crisis and crisis period. Bank profitability is ...
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(2016-08-30)Master EconomicsDespite the large body of research regarding the gender-effect in competiveness, a large hiatus still remains. Whilst ample previous research has demonstrated that males are more likely than females to engage in competition ...
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(2018-08-16)Master EconomicsIt is demonstrated that showing value development paths has little influence on investment behaviour and investors’ beliefs relative to those who were not shown such a graphical representation. Yet, individuals who are ...
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(2017-07-19)Master EconomicsThis thesis examines the relationship between CEO overconfidence and stock price crash risk. First, a mechanism is developed which explains the relationship between CEO overconfidence and stock price crash risk by using ...
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(2016-10-11)Master EconomicsThis thesis studies the effect of oil price changes and the stock market returns in 26 countries comprising oil exporter and importer as well as developed and developing countries covering period of January 2000 to March ...
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(2016-07-13)Master EconomicsThe goal of this thesis is to research and explain the relationship between overconfidence and stock market bubbles, velocity and volatility. This thesis outlines that overconfidence causes increased trading volume, excessive ...
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(2016-08-25)Master EconomicsThis thesis examines the effect of the quantitative easing (QE) policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) on the comovement among stock markets in the US and Eurozone. In addition, it also examines the relation between the ...
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