That's Interesting
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Buy Now Pay (Pain?) Later
08th December, 2022“Buy Now Pay Later” (BNPL) is a largely unregulated FinTech innovation that provides consumers with easy access to credit for specific retail purchases. The BNPL market is projected to reach $1 trillion by 2025, but what effect does it have on consumers’ financial health.
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Skin in the Game: Operating Growth, Firm Performance, and Future Stock Returns
08th December, 2022Prior research documents that asset growth is negatively associated with future firm performance. In contrast, this article shows that growth financed by product market stakeholders (i.e., “operating growth”) is positively associated with future firm performance.
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How orange juice took over the breakfast table
10th July, 2022Orange juice used to be a treat you had to squeeze out yourself. More than a century ago, an overproduction of oranges helped create the morning staple we know and love.
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A Wikipedia Narration of the GameStop Short Squeeze
07th July, 2022This paper examines the usefulness of Wikipedia pageviews as indicator of the performance of stock prices. An examination is conducted on the GameStop (GME) case, which drew the investors’ and scholars’ attention in 2021 due to the short squeeze, and its skyrocketing price increase since 2021.
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What Moves Markets?
07th July, 2022What share of asset price movements is driven by news? This article finds that news account for about 50% of all bond and stock price movements in the United States and euro area since 2002, suggesting that a much larger share of return variation can be traced back to observable news than previously thought.
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