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(2019-08-12)Master EconomicsThis study examines the (Cumulative) Average Abnormal Returns ((CAR) ̅ / (AR) ̅) of 171 NASDAQ Composite Index listed takeover targets in the period 2009-2018 to investigate whether abnormal returns are being made prior ... -
(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 ... -
(2019-08-26)Master EconomicsIn a sample of acquirer companies from USA, which are dominant in the field of artificial intelligence, I analyze the returns after M&A activity. I find that the cumulative abnormal returns are higher for the targets that ...
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(2021-07-26)Master EconomicsIn this paper, I use the government ownership to build an adjusted factor model for stocks in China’s stock market. Two methods are used to build the government ownership factor. The empirical results show that the adjusted ...
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(2020-12-15)Master EconomicsThe housing prices in the United States and the Netherlands have been growing after the crisis in 2007. Until the crisis in 2007, house prices also increased. According to Boelhouwer (2017) a bubble in a market is when ...
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(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. ...
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(2020-07-17)Master EconomicsDuring this research, I looked into the effect of investor sentiment upon the reaction to news, and what this implies for long-short trading strategies. The strategies used in this research are the momentum strategy and ...
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(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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(2021-12-13)Master EconomicsA recent meta-analysis showed that the evidence on the business case for women’s representation on boards is inconclusive (Hoobler et al., 2018) or even misleading (Adams & Ferreira, 2009). To provide an additional ...
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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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(2019-07-10)Master EconomicsThis thesis sets out to find the risk-free asset. In the literature, this concept is often seen as a given and operationalized by government bond yields. This thesis first deconstructs the theoretical concept of the risk-free ...
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(2020-07-15)Master EconomicsThis paper analyses the effect of visual attention on perceived risk, expected return, and willingness to invest. Conventionally, standard deviation of returns is seen as the measure for risk. However, more recently other ...
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(2019-07-09)Master EconomicsWhat are the future return expectations of investors after experiencing a gain or loss in the financial market? In this research is the demonstration of no difference in future return beliefs and trading behaviour in a ...
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(2019-07-09)Master EconomicsWhat are the future return expectations of investors after experiencing a gain or loss in the financial market? In this research is the demonstration of no difference in future return beliefs and trading behaviour in a ...
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(2019-08-19)Master EconomicsThe current study presents a comprehensive research that aims to measure whether model-based forecasted volatility or implied volatility is the best method of determining future volatility. Forecasting horizons of one day, ...
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