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Musculoskeletal disorders including low back pain have major individual and socioeconomic consequences as it often leads to disability and long-term sick leave and exclusion from working life. Predictors of disability and return to work often differ, and the dominant knowledge is on predictors for prolonged sick leave and disability.

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This paper tests whether macro monetary shock will influence stock market. Employing approaches of event study and abnormal returns regression, this paper finds that reserve ratio decreasing does lead to positive abnormal returns, but it works through different channels in each event. Further analyzing shows that characteristics of the stock market of China make the differences: market overreacts to unexpected shock and underreacts to expectable event.

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Chris Adcock is Professor of Financial Econometrics in the University of Sheffield. His career includes several years working in quantitative investment management in the City and, prior to that, a decade in management science consultancy. His research interests are in the development of robust and non-standard methods for modelling expected returns, portfolio selection methods and the properties of optimized portfolios. He has acted as an advisor to a number of asset management firms. He is the founding editor of the European Journal of Finance. George A.

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Ibbotson’s earlier work (with numerous co-authors) has documented the past returns of the major asset classes, thus revealing the payoffs received for taking various types of risk, and has presented an approach to forecasting future asset class returns. The asset classes that Ibbotson and his associates are best known for studying are stocks, bonds, bills, and consumer goods (inflation).

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Empirical work, however, finds little support for the result of the ICAPM and documents the existence of a “home bias”--a situation where investors prefer to invest at home rather than abroad. 5 The “home bias” is puzzling because it means that investors are not only foregoing higher returns from investing abroad but they are also holding a portfolio that is not sufficiently diversified. Scholars have argued that a large measure of the home bias can be explained in terms of information asymmetries.

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Furthermore, I would like to thank my colleagues Svitlana Voronkova and Bartosz Gebka who were steady sources of inspiration and discussion. I also appreciate the excellent cooperation in joint projects with both of them. Other colleagues at European University Viadrina who contributed to the success of my work were among others Katarzyna Grinberg, Tomasz Wi´ sniewski, Piotr Korczak, and Dobromi lSerwa. As I presented the papers included in this thesis on several conferences, I obtained valuable insights on the subjects of interest.

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