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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The leverage effect without leverage
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Thorsten Hens
  • Sven Christian Steude
Item Subtype Further Contribution (e.g. review article, editorial)
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Finance Research Letters
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 1544-6131
Volume 6
Number 2
Page Range 83 - 94
Date 2009
Abstract Text We use experimental stock markets to add more evidence that Black's [1976. Proceedings of the 1976 Meeting of the Business and Economic Statistics Section. American Statistical Association, pp. 177–181] leverage effect in financial markets does not necessarily stem from the financial leverage of the firm. We surprisingly find a large number of markets in which the leverage effect is observed although the underlying asset does not exhibit any financial leverage at all.
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.frl.2009.01.002
Other Identification Number merlin-id:478
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