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General Financial Markets and Corporate Investment

Wednesday, 15 October 2014: 11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Chair:
Douglas Evanoff, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago—USA
Sovereign Creditworthiness and Sub-sovereign Debt Ratings in Emerging Markets
Sanket Mohapatra, The World Bank—USA; Manabu Nose, International Monetary Fund—USA; Dilip Ratha, The World Bank—USA
Investor reaction to simultaneous news releases: Unemployment vs. earnings
Vitaliy Strohush, Elon University—USA; Neeraj Gupta, Elon University—USA; Reilly White, University of New Mexico—USA
Are initiators' forecasts of German closed-end funds biased?
Stefan Wendt, Bamberg University—Germany; Thomas Kaspereit, University of Oldenburg—Germany; Kerstin Lopatta, University of Oldenburg—Germany; Andreas Oehler, Bamberg University—Germany
Dispersed Beliefs, Frictional Acquisition of Capital, and Investment Dynamics
Dun Jia, University of Maryland, College Park—USA
Discussant:
Vitaliy Strohush, Elon University—USA