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Author : Dal-Hee Lee
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Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on the Volatility of Asset Prices written by Dal-Hee Lee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Travis Robert Alonzo Sapp
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Total Pages : 222 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Asset Pricing written by Travis Robert Alonzo Sapp and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ali Shahrad
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Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Ali Shahrad and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis consists of three essays in empirical asset pricing. In the first essay, I study momentum crashes in emerging equity markets. In particular, I investigate that the momentum crashes are related to volatility, unconditional of the market state. I use emerging stock markets as a laboratory because of their high volatility in both bear and bull markets. My main finding is that momentum crashes are not limited to bear markets, and in fact, one third are experienced in bull markets. These crashes do not fit into the optionality model of Daniel and Moskowitz (2016). Instead, I provide evidence that momentum crashes are linked to the market volatility. In volatile states, the optionality payoff of momentum increases and momentum skewness decreases. Furthermore, I show that the poor performance of momentum in EMs is due to the high volatility in these markets. In the second essay, I investigate whether excessive shortselling is the primary cause for momentum crashes. My hypothesis is that the excessive shortselling of the loser stocks pushes their price below their fundamental values. When the market rebounds, the reversal in the price of the losers leads to momentum crash. I collect the data on shortselling policies across countries, and test whether momentum crashes less in markets with shortselling ban, controlling for the market state and volatility. My results show that the crashes are less severe in markets with shortselling ban, suggesting that shortselling partially explains momentum crashes.In the third essay, I study the mutual fund industry in 77 countries and examine how the fund styles are developed on the aggregate level. I apply textual analysis to the fund names in order to classify funds. I find that the 20 most frequently used words appear in over 50% of all fund names and I define 10 categories (“styles”) based on those (and related) words. These 10 categories are sufficient to classify over 85% of all funds. I find that the menu of funds are remarkably universal. My main result shows how the menu of funds offered to investors in those 77 countries converges over time to a common (“global”) menu of funds. I trace this surprisingly simple and uniform process of global menu convergence to the actions of individual fund families who follow similar growth paths. My results shed new light on the aggregate process of financial innovation and the industrial organization of the asset management industry that appears to produce the same “wholesale” menu around the world"--
Author : Gang Li
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Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing written by Gang Li and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three essays on empirical asset pricing. In the first essay, I study the relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns of risky assets. I find that when the true asset pricing model cannot be identified, the idiosyncratic volatility obtained from a misspecified model contains information regarding the hedge portfolio in Merton's (1973) ICAPM. Empirically, I find that from 1815 to 2018, a combination of equal-weighted idiosyncratic volatility (EWIV) and value-weighted idiosyncratic volatility (VWIV) can strongly forecast stock market returns over short- and long-term horizons. Furthermore, EWIV and VWIV jointly can explain the cross-section of average stock returns. I show that the combination of EWIV and VWIV is a proxy for the conditional covariance risk in the ICAPM. The deduction also provides new insights concerning the tail risk measure proposed by Kelly and Jiang (2014). The second essay is a joint work with Bing Han. We propose a new and robust predictor of stock market returns and real economic activities based on information from equity options. We aggregate the difference in implied volatilities of at-the-money call and put options across stocks and find that the aggregate implied volatility spread (IVS) is significantly and positively related to future stock market returns. We attribute the predictive power to common informed trading in equity options instead of time-varying risk premium. The third essay, coauthored with Yoontae Jeon and Raymond Kan, studies the expected option return under an extended Black-Scholes model that incorporates the presence of stock return autocorrelation. We show that expected returns of both call and put options are increasing functions of return autocorrelation coefficient of the underlying stock. We find strong empirical evidence from the cross-section of average returns of equity options to support this prediction. Average returns of calls and puts as well as straddle returns all show monotonically increasing relationship with the degree of underlying stock's return autocorrelation coefficient. We also examine how the information on stock return autocorrelation helps investors to improve the out-of-sample performance of their portfolios.
Author : Gang Li
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Information and Asset Prices written by Gang Li and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alessio Alberto Saretto
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Total Pages : 322 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Alessio Alberto Saretto and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Percy Siuping Poon
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Total Pages : 272 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Price Volatility and Trading Volume in Financial Markets written by Percy Siuping Poon and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Biplab K. Ghosh
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Economics written by Biplab K. Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fei Fang
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Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing written by Fei Fang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on empirical asset pricing, including stock and options pricing. In the first and third chapter, we examine the linkage between stock market and options market at firm level. In Chapter Two, we documents the impact that systematic variance risk has for option prices of individual stocks. In the first chapter, we study the relation between future stock returns and option-based measures. We find that the options-based measure - future stock return relation is strongest for relatively less liquid stocks. After taking transaction costs into consideration, the risk-adjusted returns of the long-short stock portfolios do not differ significantly between stock liquidity groups. This chapter provides better understanding on the options-based stock return predictability. In the second chapter, we construct novel factors to mimic variance risk related to firm characteristics using individual stocks' variance risk premium. We then document that market variance risk premium and variance risk mimicking factors have strong explanatory power for option prices. Our new analytic framework links the variance risk factors related to firm characteristics to the individual equity option price structure. In the third chapter, we provide additional empirical results on how stock price can affect option prices. Our preliminary results reveal a link between the informational inefficiency of stock price and option prices. We find that a greater departure from random walk leads to a lower level of implied volatility (compared to realized volatility) and a steeper implied volatility curve.
Author : Lionel Martellini
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Total Pages : 390 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Asset Pricing Theory written by Lionel Martellini and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xin Zhou
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Total Pages : 168 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Information and Asset Pricing written by Xin Zhou and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second essay examines the effect of a short-sale constraint on risky asset price in a rational expectations model with asymmetric information. Imposing a short-sale constraint creates two competing effects. On one hand, it reduces the risky asset supply and exerts upward pressure on asset price. On the other hand, it forces investors with negative views on asset payoff to be sidelined. The latter effect can reduce the informational efficiency of asset price, which in turn decreases investors' demand for the risky asset. Consequently, imposing a short-sale constraint can bias equilibrium asset price in either direction depending on which effect dominates. Empirical analysis using short interest and institutional ownership data suggests that an increase in short interest relative to shares outstanding for individual stocks reduces informational efficiency measured by the probability of information-based trading and leads to lower risk adjusted stock returns. The effect of short-sale constraint on return volatility is ambiguous.
Author : Stephen Szaura
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Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Stephen Szaura and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis comprises three essays in empirical asset pricing. My first essay entitled "Are stock and corporate bond markets integrated? A Big Data Approach" I document the existence a growing Factor Zoo of discovered characteristics and factors that predict the cross-section of corporate bond returns and generate a significant high minus low portfolio alpha. I determine a higher statistical benchmark, by accounting for those characteristics and factors that have been discovered in published and working papers and find that in cross-sectional regressions and portfolio sorts of over a hundred characteristics and factors, on average 2.4% predict the cross-section of corporate bond returns when adjusting for higher benchmarks. A multivariate horse-race of all characteristics and factors in cross-sectional regressions finds a higher number of corporate bond, rather than stock, characteristics and factors that predict the cross-section of corporate bond returns when adjusting for higher benchmarks. In addition to the lower number of corporate bond characteristics and factors that predict the cross-section of stock returns, my results show that the stock and corporate bond markets are more segmented than previously documented.My second essay is based on a joint working paper entitled "Do Option Implied Measures of Stock Mispricing Find Investment Opportunities or Market Frictions" where we find that existing option implied stock mis-pricing measures, the portfolios identified as being the most mispriced (highest quintile), typically have the highest shorting fee. When those stocks are omitted, the average abnormal returns of the long-short stock portfolios are insignificant or greatly reduced in economic magnitude. We propose a new measure, IPD, using a novel intra-day options trades data set, circumvents this and does not require shorting hard to borrow firms.My third essay is based on a joint working paper entitled "Accounting Transparency and the Implied Volatility Skew". We show theoretically and empirically that firms with higher accounting transparency have an implied volatility smirk that is more sensitive to leverage (vice versa). The more clear the accounting information the more skewed the implied volatility smirk. Our theoretical predictions rely on extending the Duffie and Lando [2001] credit risk model to stock option pricing whereby incomplete accounting information and the risk of bankruptcy together act as an economic source of jump risk for stocks. Empirical tests confirm the theoretical predictions of the model and the model can be solved in closed form solution up to Bivariate Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution Function"--
Author : Jose Gonzalo Rangel
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Download or read book Stock Market Volatility and Price Discovery written by Jose Gonzalo Rangel and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rui Gao
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Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Volatility Measurement and Modeling with Price Limits written by Rui Gao and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation studies volatility measurement and modeling issues when asset prices are subject to price limits based on Bayesian approaches. Two types of estimators are developed to consistently estimate integrated volatility in the presence of price limits. One is a realized volatility type estimator, but using both realized asset prices and simulated asset prices. The other is a discrete sample analogue of integrated volatility using posterior samples of the latent volatility states. These two types of estimators are first constructed based on the simple log-stochastic volatility model in Chapter 2. The simple log-stochastic volatility framework is extended in Chapter 3 to incorporate correlated innovations and further extended in Chapter 4 to accommodate jumps and fat-tailed innovations. For each framework, a MCMC algorithm is designed to simulate the unobserved asset prices, model parameters and latent states. Performances of both type estimators are also examined using simulations under each framework. Applications to Chinese stock markets are also provided.
Author : Zongming Ma
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Download or read book Three Essays on Asset Pricing in Regime and ESG Environments written by Zongming Ma and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asset pricing has been a focal point among a broad range of financial studies. Traditional asset pricing models are encountering challenges by empirical data and sustainable compliance. For example, the Black-Scholes-Merton (BSM) model exhibits the "volatility smile" puzzle and the role that sustainability plays in accounting for asset pricing remains controversial. Based on these observations, I raise three research questions. First, can an option valuation model with a pricing kernel that depends on market regimes address volatility smile and be consistent with observed market prices? Second, how do the Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings affect asset prices across different economic sectors, firm sizes, and time horizons? Third, since the macroeconomic environment affects firms' strategies and financial performance, how do ESG ratings affect stock returns across market regimes? I address these questions in three essays. The first essay reveals that the proposed model can predict the market option prices more accurate than the alternative models (Black-Scholes-Merton, Heston-Nandi, Hardy) do for both the in-sample and out-of-sample data across regimes. The second essay finds that ESG ratings have a positive effect on stock returns, particularly for sensitive industries (gas, oil, chemical, mining, alcohol, and tobacco, etc.), for large capitalization firms, and for long-term investment horizons. The third essay uses a machine learning method to identify market regime using 134 macroeconomic factors and a factor model to discover a positive relationship between ESG and asset returns in the bear regime. The factor model also show that the impact of ESG rating on stock returns in a sector, given a market regime, depends significantly on the level of demand in that sector under that market regime.
Author : Ehud Peleg
Publisher : ProQuest
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Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Asset Pricing, Portfolio Choice and Behavioral Finance written by Ehud Peleg and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Picard
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Total Pages : 165 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Asset Pricing written by Alan Picard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract This dissertation consists of three essays. My first paper re-examines the link between idiosyncratic risk and expected returns for a large sample of firms in both developed and emerging markets. Recent studies using Fama-French three factor models have shown a negative relationship between idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns for developed markets. This relationship has not been studied to date for emerging markets. This study relates the current-month’s idiosyncratic volatility to the subsequent month’s returns for a sample of both developed and emerging markets expanding benchmark factors by including both a momentum and a systematic liquidity risk component. My second essay contributes to the important literature on the topic of the small capitalization stocks historical outperformance over large capitalization stocks by investigating the hypothesis that the small firm premium is related to macroeconomic and financial variables and that relationship is driven by the economic cycle in the United States and Canada. More specifically, this study employs recent advances in nonlinear time series models to explore the relationship between the small firm premium, and financial and macroeconomic variables in the Canadian and U.S. economies. My third paper re-examines the findings of a recent research paper that suggested that market wide liquidity may act as a leading indicator to the economic cycle. Using several liquidity measures and various macroeconomic variables to proxy for the economic conditions, the paper presents evidence that stock market liquidity could forecast business cycles: A major decrease in the overall level of market liquidity could indicate weak economic growth in the subsequent months. However, the drawback in the analysis is that the relationship is investigated in a linear approach even though it has been proven that most macroeconomic variables follow non-linear dynamics. Employing similar liquidity measures and macroeconomic proxies, and two popular econometrics models that account for non-linear behavior, this study hence re-investigates the relationship between stock market liquidity and business cycles.
