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Corporate Governance Ratings In Emerging Markets: Implications For Market Valuation, Internal Firm-Performance, Dividend Payouts And Policy, Edward Baker, Ben Godridge, Aron Gottesman, Matthew Morey Apr 2007

Corporate Governance Ratings In Emerging Markets: Implications For Market Valuation, Internal Firm-Performance, Dividend Payouts And Policy, Edward Baker, Ben Godridge, Aron Gottesman, Matthew Morey

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This paper utilizes a new data set from AllianceBernstein that, unlike other corporate governance data, has country-level and monthly-updated firm-level governance ratings for 22 emerging markets countries for almost a five year period. With these data we examine the relationship of firm-level and country-level corporate governance on firm valuation, dividend payout, internal firm performance and other issues. We find a number of interesting results that have implications for corporations, investors and policymakers. First, we find there is a positive and significant relation between firm-level and country-level corporate governance ratings and market valuation. Second, we find this relation between governance and …


A Comparison Between Tests For Changes In The Adjustment Coefficients In Cointegrated Systems, Marco R. Barassi, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Stephen G. Hall Apr 2007

A Comparison Between Tests For Changes In The Adjustment Coefficients In Cointegrated Systems, Marco R. Barassi, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Stephen G. Hall

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In this paper we examine several approaches to detecting changes in the adjustment coefficients in cointegrated VARs. We adopt recursive and rolling techniques as mis-specification tests for the detection of non-constancy and the estimation of the breakpoints. We find that inspection of the recursive eigenvalues is not useful to detect a break in the adjustment coefficients, whilst recursive estimation of the coefficients can only indicate non-constancy, but not the exact breakpoint. Rolling estimation is found to perform better in detecting non-constancy in the parameters and their true value after the breakpoint. However, it only detects a region where the break …


Irving Fisher, Expectational Errors And The Uip Puzzle, Rachel Campbell, Kees Koedijk, James R. Lothian, Ronald Mahieu Mar 2007

Irving Fisher, Expectational Errors And The Uip Puzzle, Rachel Campbell, Kees Koedijk, James R. Lothian, Ronald Mahieu

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In this paper, we first review Irving Fisher’s seminal work on UIP and on the closely related equation linking interest rates and inflation. Like Fisher, we find that the failures of UIP are tied in with individual episodes in which errors surrounding exchange-rate expectations have been persistent but in the end transitory. We find considerable commonality in deviations from UIP and PPP suggesting that both of these deviations are driven by a common factor. Using a dynamic latent factor model we find further that deviations from UIP are almost completely due to forecasting errors in exchange rates – a result …