New video summarizing my research on COVID-19 with Simon Glossner, Pedro Matos and @StefanoRamelli
What can we learn from the market reactions to #COVID19 ?
#Research carried out by the University of Zurich, the Swiss #Finance Institute, and UVA Darden reveals what makes firms resilient against rare #disasters such as COVID-19. @AlexFWagner
youtube.com/watch?v=CtaCBxqb…
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#PaperSpotlight: Investor Rewards to #climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. #Elections by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard J Zeckhauser @Kennedy_School, and Alexandre Ziegler @UZH_en
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Forthcoming: Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard J Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler @UZH_en
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Is there a connection between the 2008 financial crisis & COVID-19? @antmoreno716 @unav, @AlexFWagner, Ongena @UZH_en @uzh_bf & Veghazy @ecb show that European countries more affected by the financial crisis had more deaths relative to Covid cases: ow.ly/ZHwn50DXb7n
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Features forthcoming paper from RCFS by @StefanoRamelli, @AlexFWagner, Richard Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler (article is in German)
"The boomerang effect: Investors ignored Donald Trump's climate policy - and were rewarded for it"
nzz.ch/finanzen/der-boomeran… via @NZZ
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Special Issue: #COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis & Corporate Finance
This special issue is the first to be published by a finance journal on COVID & corp finance. It presents important early research on the economic impact of the pandemic.
FREE to read online!
academic.oup.com/rcfs/issue/…
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Very uncool: Die Schweiz verspielt gerade den erreichten Erfolg mit Covid-19. Wir haben zu viel geöffnet & falsche Sicherheit vorgespiegelt.
Um Schlimmeres zu verhindern, braucht es dringend strengere Massnahmen. Das ist wichtig sowohl für die Gesundheit wie für die Wirtschaft.
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Simon Glossner @DardenMBA, Pedro Matos, Stefano Ramelli @StefanoRamelli @uzh_bf, Alexander F. Wagner @AlexFWagner @SFI_CH @cepr_org : Where Do Institutional Investors Seek Shelter when Disaster Strikes? Evidence from COVID-19 mailchi.mp/ecgi/wp-688-2020
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Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland, was fond of asking children mathematical puzzles. Here's a famous one: Can you draw the following design on a sheet of paper without lifting the pencil from the paper (no intersections allowed)?
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Physics Photo Of the Day:
This iconic photograph taken at the Fifth Solvay Conference shows the greatest gathering of intelligence ever.
Physicists met in October 1927 in Brussels to discuss the then-new theory of quantum mechanics.
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Check out bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… on the different behavior of investor groups in the #covid19 crisis - the newest paper by @AlexFWagner and @StefanoRamelli @markets!
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World turned upside down?
Japan and Switzerland are now the only major 10 yr government bonds on which you can earn a positive real rate of return! @bcaresearch via @SoberLook
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Today is π Approximation Day 22/7 = 3.14285714286
Archimedes wrote the first known proof that 22/7>π in the 3rd century BCE
Here's another:
We have a new paper on the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA): papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Main questions:
(1) How big were the recurring and one-time impacts of the TCJA?
(2) How effective was the market in pricing these impacts?
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#PaperSpotlight: Feverish Stock Price Reactions to COVID-19 by @StefanoRamelli and @AlexFWagner @UZH_en
























