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Title:Optimal Debt Bias in Corporate Income Taxation
Author(s):SIMON, JennyDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:I present a rationale for a government to discriminate between debt and equity financing when taxing corporate income. For risk-averse entrepreneurs, equity generates more surplus than debt, because it provides financing ...
Title:Realized Beta GARCH: Multivariate GARCH model with realized measures of volatility and covolatility
Author(s):HANSEN, Peter Reinhard; LUNDE, Asger; VOEV, ValeriDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:We introduce a multivariate GARCH model that incorporates realized measures of
volatility and covolatility. The realized measures extract information about the current
level of volatility and covolatility from high-frequency ...
Title:The Saving Glut Explanation of Global Imbalances. The Role of Underinvestment
Author(s):CORNELI, FlaviaDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:According to the “Saving Glut hypothesis”, global imbalances are caused by inefficiently high level of precautionary savings in .nancially underdeveloped regions, where agents have limited opportunity to diversify idiosyncratic ...
Title:Indirect Estimation of Elliptical Stable Distributions
Author(s):LOMBARDI, Marco J.; VEREDAS, DavidDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:We present an indirect estimation approach for elliptical stable distributions which
relies on the use of a multivariate Student-t distribution as auxiliary model. This
distribution is also elliptical and we show that ...
Title:The Home Bias of the Poor: Terms of Trade Effects and and Portfolios across the Wealth Distribution
Author(s):BROER, TobiasDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI ECOAbstract:Wealthier people generally hold a larger part of their savings in risky
assets. Using the US Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that wealthier
households also have a higher portfolio share of foreign assets. This ...