Friday, June 14, 2013

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Book Review: Value Investing: From Graham to Buffett and Beyond

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:28 PM PDT

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 14th June 2013

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 10:18 PM PDT

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Published / Preprint: Some applications of first-passage ideas to finance. (arXiv:1306.3110v1 [q-fin.ST])

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 05:38 PM PDT

Many problems in finance are related to first passage times. Among all of them, we chose three on which we contributed personally. Our first example relates Kolmogorov-Smirnov like goodness-of-fit tests, modified in such a way that tail events and core events contribute equally to the test (in the standard Kolmogorov-Smirnov, the tails contribute very little to the measure of goodness-of-fit). We...

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Published / Preprint: Exit as Governance: An Empirical Analysis

Posted: 13 Jun 2013 12:16 PM PDT

Recent theory posits a new governance channel available to blockholders: threat of exit. Threat of exit, as opposed to actual exit, is difficult to measure directly. However, a crucial property is that it is weaker when stock liquidity is lower and vice versa. We use natural experiments of financial crises and decimalization as exogenous shocks to stock liquidity. Firms with larger blockholdings...

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