Browsing by Subject "stock market"

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    • Accounting for Increased Risk in a Select Group of Actively Managed Investment Portfolio 
      Watson, Michael Lee (1997)
      In 1991, Michael O' Higgins and John Downes published Beating the Dow. Since then, the "Dogs of the Dow" strategies discussed in the book have received increasing levels of publicity. Although it is undeniable that the ...
    • Essays on Impacts of Avian Influenza Outbreaks on Financial Markets 
      Huang, Wei (2011-02-22)
      A recent outbreak of bird flu or avian influenza (AI), an especially highly pathogenic strain (HPAI) of H5N1, started in Hong Kong in January 2003 and caused 159 human deaths in Asia, Africa and Europe through early 2007. ...
    • Essays on monetary policy and international trade 
      Chiang, Hui-Chu (2009-05-15)
      The dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the asymmetric effects of monetary policy on stock prices by using an unobserved components model with Markov-switching. My results show that monetary policy ...
    • Goodbye 2018, Hello 2019 
      Jansen, Dennis W.; Liu, Liqun; Rettenmaier, Andrew J. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2019-01-22)
      The decline of the stock market and its recent volatility have many wondering about the future prospects of the economy. Other leading economic indicators offer a mixed outlook: hours worked in manufacturing remains high ...
    • Interconnected Financial Prediction using Time-Series and Network Data 
      Huffman, Maxwell A (2021-05-10)
      The digital technology age has created an unprecedented production and consumption of data. With this surge, data-analytics have become increasingly important in industries that can generate value based on predictive models: ...
    • Three essays on monetary policy, the financial market, and economic growth in the U.S. and China 
      Yang, Juan (2009-05-15)
      Does monetary policy affect the real economy? If so, what is the transmission mechanism or channel through which these effects occur? These two questions are among the most important and controversial in macroeconomics. ...