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Book Synopsis Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries by : Hugues Langlois
Download or read book Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries written by Hugues Langlois and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I derive an equilibrium asset pricing model incorporating both systematic and idiosyncratic return asymmetries, and show their respective impact on expected returns. With systematic return asymmetry, investors allocate their wealth between the risk-free security, the market portfolio, and a factor which overweights assets with high systematic asymmetry. Investors who prefer positive asymmetry remain underdiversified from a mean-variance perspective to preserve skewness in their portfolio, and idiosyncratic asymmetry therefore is priced in equilibrium. I find that a systematic asymmetry factor and a factor capturing idiosyncratic asymmetry help explain the cross-sectional variation of expected returns across U.S. equities, international equity markets, government bonds, currencies, and commodities. My results offer a risk-based explanation of expected returns that contributes to our understanding of asset pricing across multiple markets.
Book Synopsis Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries by : Hugues Langlois-Bertrand
Download or read book Asset Pricing with Return Asymmetries written by Hugues Langlois-Bertrand and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis consists of three essays about the impact on asset prices of return asymmetries. In the first essay, I investigate the dynamic properties of widely used U.S. equity risk factors such as size, value, and momentum. These factors display significant return asymmetries as well as time-varying dependence, which is especially striking since their linear unconditional cross-correlations are near zero. Therefore, an analysis based only on linear correlations drastically overstates the diversification benefits offered by these risk factors. I propose a novel econometric methodology to capture dynamic dependence and multivariate asymmetries, and I show that these features have a significant impact on optimal portfolio allocations, as well as on risk measures.The second essay answers an important question: Has financial integration eroded the benefits of international diversification? Using an extension of the methodology used in the first essay, I can capture the evolution over time of dependence in a large cross-section of developed and emerging equity markets. Correlations and tail dependence have significantly increased for both groups of countries, but tail dependence in emerging markets is still relatively low. Hence, international diversification benefits have reduced over time, but emerging markets still offer important benefits especially during large market downturns.In the third essay, I explore the theoretical implications of these return asymmetries in a rational framework. Using a distribution related to the one used in the first two essays, I derive an asset pricing model that incorporates both systematic and idiosyncratic return asymmetries. Systematic asymmetry can have a positive or negative risk premium depending on the asymmetry of the market portfolio, whereas idiosyncratic asymmetry always commands a negative risk premium. In the empirical section, I find that systematic and idiosyncratic asymmetries help explain the variation in expected returns for U.S. and international equity markets, government bonds, currencies, and commodities. Therefore, I provide a risk-based explanation of expected returns using both systematic and idiosyncratic asymmetries, and contribute to our understanding of asset prices in different markets." --
Book Synopsis Asymmetric Returns by : Alexander M. Ineichen
Download or read book Asymmetric Returns written by Alexander M. Ineichen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Asymmetric Returns, financial expert Alexander Ineichen elevates the critical discussion about alpha versus beta and absolute returns versus relative returns. He argues that controlling downside volatility is a key element in asset management if sustainable positive compounding of capital and financial survival are major objectives. Achieving sustainable positive absolute returns are the result of taking and managing risk wisely, that is, an active risk management process where risk is defined in absolute terms and changes in the market place are accounted for. The result of an active risk management process-when successful-is an asymmetric return profile, that is, more and higher returns on the upside and fewer and lower returns on the downside. Ineichen claims that achieving Asymmetric Returns is the future of active asset management. Alexander M. Ineichen, CFA, CAIA, is Managing Director and Senior Investment Officer for the Alternative Investment Solutions team, a key provider within Alternative and Quantitative Investments, itself a business within UBS Global Asset Management. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIAA). Ineichen is the author of the two UBS research publications In Search of Alpha—Investing in Hedge Funds (October 2000) and The Search for Alpha Continues—Do Fund of Hedge Funds Add Value? (September 2001). As of 2006 these two reports were the most often printed research papers in the documented history of UBS. He is also author of the widely popular Absolute Returns—The Risk and Opportunities of Hedge Fund Investing, also published by John Wiley & Sons.
Book Synopsis Testing Asymmetric-Information Asset Pricing Models by : Bryan T. Kelly
Download or read book Testing Asymmetric-Information Asset Pricing Models written by Bryan T. Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern asset pricing theory is based on the assumption that investors have heterogeneous information. We provide direct evidence of the importance of information asymmetry for asset prices and investor demands using three natural experiments that capture plausibly exogenous variation in information asymmetry on a stock-by-stock basis for a large set of U.S. companies. Consistent with predictions derived from an asymmetric-information rational expectations model with multiple assets and multiple signals, we find that prices and uninformed investors' demands fall as information asymmetry increases. In the cross-section, these falls are larger, the more investors are uninformed, the larger and more variable is stock turnover, the more uncertain is the asset's payoff, and the more precise is the lost signal. We show that at least part of the fall in prices is due to expected returns becoming more sensitive to liquidity risk. Our results confirm that information asymmetry has a substantial effect on asset prices and imply that a primary channel linking asymmetry to prices is liquidity.
Book Synopsis Empirical Asset Pricing by : Wayne Ferson
Download or read book Empirical Asset Pricing written by Wayne Ferson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the theory and methods of empirical asset pricing, integrating classical foundations with recent developments. This book offers a comprehensive advanced introduction to asset pricing, the study of models for the prices and returns of various securities. The focus is empirical, emphasizing how the models relate to the data. The book offers a uniquely integrated treatment, combining classical foundations with more recent developments in the literature and relating some of the material to applications in investment management. It covers the theory of empirical asset pricing, the main empirical methods, and a range of applied topics. The book introduces the theory of empirical asset pricing through three main paradigms: mean variance analysis, stochastic discount factors, and beta pricing models. It describes empirical methods, beginning with the generalized method of moments (GMM) and viewing other methods as special cases of GMM; offers a comprehensive review of fund performance evaluation; and presents selected applied topics, including a substantial chapter on predictability in asset markets that covers predicting the level of returns, volatility and higher moments, and predicting cross-sectional differences in returns. Other chapters cover production-based asset pricing, long-run risk models, the Campbell-Shiller approximation, the debate on covariance versus characteristics, and the relation of volatility to the cross-section of stock returns. An extensive reference section captures the current state of the field. The book is intended for use by graduate students in finance and economics; it can also serve as a reference for professionals.
Book Synopsis Asymmetric Dependence in Finance by : Jamie Alcock
Download or read book Asymmetric Dependence in Finance written by Jamie Alcock and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avoid downturn vulnerability by managing correlation dependency Asymmetric Dependence in Finance examines the risks and benefits of asset correlation, and provides effective strategies for more profitable portfolio management. Beginning with a thorough explanation of the extent and nature of asymmetric dependence in the financial markets, this book delves into the practical measures fund managers and investors can implement to boost fund performance. From managing asymmetric dependence using Copulas, to mitigating asymmetric dependence risk in real estate, credit and CTA markets, the discussion presents a coherent survey of the state-of-the-art tools available for measuring and managing this difficult but critical issue. Many funds suffered significant losses during recent downturns, despite having a seemingly well-diversified portfolio. Empirical evidence shows that the relation between assets is much richer than previously thought, and correlation between returns is dependent on the state of the market; this book explains this asymmetric dependence and provides authoritative guidance on mitigating the risks. Examine an options-based approach to limiting your portfolio's downside risk Manage asymmetric dependence in larger portfolios and alternate asset classes Get up to speed on alternative portfolio performance management methods Improve fund performance by applying appropriate models and quantitative techniques Correlations between assets increase markedly during market downturns, leading to diversification failure at the very moment it is needed most. The 2008 Global Financial Crisis and the 2006 hedge-fund crisis provide vivid examples, and many investors still bear the scars of heavy losses from their well-managed, well-diversified portfolios. Asymmetric Dependence in Finance shows you what went wrong, and how it can be corrected and managed before the next big threat using the latest methods and models from leading research in quantitative finance.
Book Synopsis Asymmetric Volatility and Risk in Equity Markets by : Geert Bekaert
Download or read book Asymmetric Volatility and Risk in Equity Markets written by Geert Bekaert and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It appears that volatility in equity markets is asymmetric: returns and conditional volatility are negatively correlated. We provide a unified framework to simultaneously investigate asymmetric volatility at the firm and the market level and to examine two potential explanations of the asymmetry: leverage effects and time-varying risk premiums. Our empirical application uses the market portfolio and portfolios with different leverage constructed from Nikkei 225 stocks, extending the empirical evidence on asymmetry to Japanese stocks. Although volatility asymmetry is present and significant at the market and the portfolio levels, its source differs across portfolios. We find that it is important to include leverage ratios in the volatility dynamics but that their economic effects are mostly dwarfed by the volatility feedback mechanism. Volatility feedback is enhanced by a phenomenon that we term covariance asymmetry: conditional covariances with the market increase only significantly following negative market news. We do not find significant asymmetries in conditional betas.
Book Synopsis The Behavior of Asset Return Moments with Asymmetric Information, Price Taking and Risk Aversion by : Steve L. Slezak
Download or read book The Behavior of Asset Return Moments with Asymmetric Information, Price Taking and Risk Aversion written by Steve L. Slezak and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information (Classic Reprint) by : Jiang Wang
Download or read book A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information (Classic Reprint) written by Jiang Wang and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Model of Intertemporal Asset Prices Under Asymmetric Information We explore the implications of our model for the behavior of stock prices, risk premia, price volatility, autocorrelation in stock returns and investors' trading strategies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Skewness and the Asymmetry in Earnings Announcement Returns by : Benjamin M. Blau
Download or read book Skewness and the Asymmetry in Earnings Announcement Returns written by Benjamin M. Blau and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of traditional asset pricing theory rests on the assumption of normality in the distribution of stock returns. A growing body of research suggests that skewness in the return distributions can affect asset prices. This paper attempts to empirically identify factors that influence return skewness. Consistent with theory in Xu (2007), we find that prices during the post-earnings announcement period are more convex for firms that have tighter short-sale constraints and for firms where there appears to be greater disagreement among investors. Perhaps more importantly, we also find that price convexity is a key determinant in the skewness of stocks.
Author :Markus Konrad Brunnermeier Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :0198296983 Total Pages :261 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information by : Markus Konrad Brunnermeier
Download or read book Asset Pricing Under Asymmetric Information written by Markus Konrad Brunnermeier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of information is central to the academic debate on finance. This book provides a detailed, current survey of theoretical research into the effect on stock prices of the distribution of information, comparing and contrasting major models. It examines theoretical models that explain bubbles, technical analysis, and herding behavior. It also provides rational explanations for stock market crashes. Analyzing the implications of asymmetries in information is crucial in this area. This book provides a useful survey for graduate students.
Book Synopsis Multi-moment Asset Allocation and Pricing Models by : Emmanuel Jurczenko
Download or read book Multi-moment Asset Allocation and Pricing Models written by Emmanuel Jurczenko and published by Wiley. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While mainstream financial theories and applications assume that asset returns are normally distributed and individual preferences are quadratic, the overwhelming empirical evidence shows otherwise. Indeed, most of the asset returns exhibit “fat-tails” distributions and investors exhibit asymmetric preferences. These empirical findings lead to the development of a new area of research dedicated to the introduction of higher order moments in portfolio theory and asset pricing models. Multi-moment asset pricing is a revolutionary new way of modeling time series in finance which allows various degrees of long-term memory to be generated. It allows risk and prices of risk to vary through time enabling the accurate valuation of long-lived assets. This book presents the state-of-the art in multi-moment asset allocation and pricing models and provides many new developments in a single volume, collecting in a unified framework theoretical results and applications previously scattered throughout the financial literature. The topics covered in this comprehensive volume include: four-moment individual risk preferences, mathematics of the multi-moment efficient frontier, coherent asymmetric risks measures, hedge funds asset allocation under higher moments, time-varying specifications of (co)moments and multi-moment asset pricing models with homogeneous and heterogeneous agents. Written by leading academics, Multi-moment Asset Allocation and Pricing Models offers a unique opportunity to explore the latest findings in this new field of research.
Book Synopsis Asymmetric Dependence in Real Estate Investment Trusts by : Jamie Alcock
Download or read book Asymmetric Dependence in Real Estate Investment Trusts written by Jamie Alcock and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REITs are often assumed to be defensive assets having a low correlation with market returns. However, this dependence is not symmetric across the joint-return distribution. Disappointment-averse investors with state-dependent preferences attach (dis-)utility to investments exhibiting (lower-tail) upper-tail asymmetric dependence. We find strong empirical evidence that investors price this asymmetric dependence in the cross section of US REIT returns. In particular, we show that REIT stocks with lower-tail asymmetric dependence attract a risk premium averaging 1.3% p.a. and REIT stocks exhibiting upper-tail asymmetric dependence are traded at discount averaging 5.8% p.a. We find no evidence that the equity B is positively priced in US REIT returns. Our findings imply that traditional estimators of REIT cost of capital and performance measurement, are likely to be substantially misrepresentative.
Book Synopsis Essays in Asset Pricing by : Xiaoxiao Tang
Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing written by Xiaoxiao Tang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I propose a forward-looking measure of the asymmetry in the variance of asset returns and introduce a way to estimate it from option prices. This measure is model free and it serves as a close approximation for the asset risk premium. I provide an empirically supported sufficient condition under which the risk-neutral variance asymmetry ranks stocks based on their expected returns. Empirically, I find strong cross-sectional correlation between this measure and future stock returns. Variance asymmetry managed portfolios yield economically large average returns and Sharpe ratios. Crash risk and standard asset pricing factors do not explain this abnormal performance. Furthermore, the term structure of this measure reflects future time variation in stock returns.
Book Synopsis Variance Asymmetry Managed Portfolios by : Xiaoxiao Tang
Download or read book Variance Asymmetry Managed Portfolios written by Xiaoxiao Tang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I propose a forward-looking measure of the asymmetry in the variance of asset returns and introduce a way to estimate it from option prices. This measure is model free and it serves as a close approximation for the asset expected excess return. I provide an empirically supported sufficient condition under which the risk-neutral variance asymmetry ranks stocks based on their physical expected returns. Empirically, I find strong cross-sectional correlation between this measure and future stock returns. Variance asymmetry managed portfolios yield economically large average returns and Sharpe ratios. Crash risk and standard asset pricing factors do not explain this abnormal performance.
Book Synopsis Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory by : Kerry Back
Download or read book Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory written by Kerry Back and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the classical results on single-period, discrete-time, and continuous-time models of portfolio choice and asset pricing. It also treats asymmetric information, production models, various proposed explanations for the equity premium puzzle, and topics important for behavioral finance.
Book Synopsis Option-Implied Variance Asymmetry and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns by : Tao Huang
Download or read book Option-Implied Variance Asymmetry and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns written by Tao Huang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We find a positive relationship between individual stocks' implied variance asymmetry, defined as the difference between upside and downside risk-neutral semivariances extracted from out-of-money options, and future stock returns. The high-minus-low hedge portfolio earns the excess return of 0.90% (0.67%) per month in equal-weighted (value-weighted) returns. We show that implied variance asymmetry provides a neat measure of risk-neutral skewness and outperforms the standard risk-neutral skewness in predicting the cross-section of future stock returns. Risk-based equilibrium asset pricing models can not explain such a positive relationship, which instead can be potentially explained by information asymmetry and informed trading.
