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WORKING PAPERS - 2005

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  01-05
The Persistence and Pricing of the Cash Component of Earnings

Patricia M. Dechow, Scott A. Richardson and Richard D. Sloan

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  02-05
Information (In) Efficiency in Prediction Markets

Erik Snowberg, Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

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03-05
Special Purpose Vehicles and Securitization
Gary Gorton and Nicholas S. Souleles

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04-05
Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures
Gary Gorton and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

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05-05
The Book-to-Price Effect in Stock Returns: Accounting for Leverage
Stephen H. Penman, Scott A. Richardson and Irem Tuna

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06-05
A Consumption-Based Explanation of Expected Stock Returns
Motohiro Yogo

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07-05 (Revision of paper 24-04)
Analyst Reputation, Conflict of Interest, and Forecast Accuracy
Lily Fang and Ayako Yasuda

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08-05
Passive Decisions and Potent Defaults
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Andrew Metrick

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09-05
Saving for Retirement on the Path of Least Resistance
James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Andrew Metrick

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10-05
Large Blocks of Stock: Prevalence, Size and Measurement
Jennifer Dlugosz, Rudiger Fahlenbrah, Paul Gompers, Andrew Metrick

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11-05
The Congruence of Shareholder and Bondholder Governance
K. J. Martjin Cremers, Vinay B. Nair and Chenyang Wei

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12-05
The Role of Banks in Takeovers
Victoria Ivashina, Vinay B. Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud and Roger Stover

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13-05
Corporate Governance and Internal Organization
Vinay B. Nair

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14-05
Why Do Public Firms Issue Private and Public Securities?
Armando Gomes and Gordon Phillips

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15-05
The Neoclassical Theory of Investment in Speculative Markets
Stavros Panageas

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16-05
Dequity: The Blurring of Debt and Equity in Securitized Real Estate Financing
Georgette Chapman Poindexter

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17-05
Bank Credit Cycles
Gary B. Gorton and Ping He

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18-05
Eat or Be Eaten: A Theory of Mergers and Merger Waves
Gary B. Gorton, Matthias Kahl and Richard Rosen

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19-05
Vote Trading and Information Aggregation
Susan E. K. Christoffersen, Christopher C. Geczy, David K. Musto and Adam V. Reed

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20-05
Interpretable Asset Markets?
Ravi Bansal, Varoujan Khatchatrian and Amir Yaron

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21-05
Price Informativeness and Investment Sensitivity to Stock Price
Qi Chen, Itay Goldstein and Wei Jiang

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22-05
Human Capital and Earnings Distribution Dynamics
Mark Huggett, Gustavo Ventura and Amir Yaron

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23-05
Debt Restructuring and Voting Rules
Philip Bond and Hulya Eraslan

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24-05
Futures Prices in a Production Economy with Investment Constraints
Leonid Kogan, Dimitry Livdan and Amir Yaron

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25-05
Persistence, Predictability and Portfolio Planning
Michael J. Brennan and Yihong Xia

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26-05
An International Examination of Affine Term Structure Models and the Expectations Hypothesis
Huarong Tang and Yihong Xia

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27-05
Are Stars' Opinions Worth More? The Relation between Analyst Reputation and Recommendation Values
Lily H. Fang and Ayako Yasuda

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28-05
The Effects of Biased Self Perception in Teams
Simon Gervais and Itay Goldstein

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29-05
Solving Models with External Habit
Jessica A. Wachter

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30-05
Let us Trade Pension Claims
Bernard Dumas and Juerg Syz

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31-05
Asymmetric Information and Financing with Convertibles
Archishman Chakraborty and Bilge Yilmaz

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32-05
Stock Returns and Expected Business Conditions: Half a Century of Direct Evidence
Sean D. Campbell and Francis X. Diebold

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33-05
The Pecking Order, Debt Capacity, and Information
Mark T. Leary and Michael R. Roberts

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34-05
A Dynamic Model for the Forward Curve
Choong Tze Chang, Dean Foster, Krishna Ramaswamy and Robert Stine

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35-05
A Portfolio of Consumer Credit
David K. Musto and Nicholas Souleles

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36-05
Do Consumers Choose the Right Credit Contracts?
Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Chunlin Liu and Nicholas Souleles

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37-05
What Can Rational Investors Do About Excessive Volatility and Sentiment Fluctuations?
Bernard Dumas, Alexander Kurshev, and Raman Uppal

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