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Benefits of Control, Managerial Ownership, and the Stock Returns of Acquiring Firms

Hubbard, R. Glenn - 1995

This paper examines the effect of the benefits of corporate control to managers on the relationship between managerial … the acquiring firm increases, the interests of managers are more closely aligned with those of shareholders, reducing the … acquisition premium. At sufficiently high levels of managerial ownership, managers value a reduction in the risk of their …

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Learning about CEO Ability and Stock Return Volatility

Pan, Yihui - 2013

When there is uncertainty about a CEO's quality, news about the firm causes rational investors to update their expectation of the firm's profitability for two reasons: Updates occur because of the direct effect of the news, and also because the news can cause an updated assessment of the CEO's...

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Which Investors Matter for Equity Valuations and Expected Returns?

Koijen, Ralph S. J. - 2020

Much work in finance is devoted to identifying characteristics of firms, such as measures of fundamentals and beliefs, that explain differences in asset prices and expected returns. We develop a framework to quantitatively trace the connection between valuations, expected returns, and...

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Is There Hedge Fund Contagion?

Boyson, Nicole M. - 2006

We examine whether hedge funds experience contagion. First, we consider whether extreme movements in equity, fixed income, and currency markets are contagious to hedge funds. Second, we investigate whether extreme adverse returns in one hedge fund style are contagious to other hedge fund styles....

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Income Inequality and Asset Prices under Redistributive Taxation

Pastor, Lubos - 2015

Our simple model features agents heterogeneous in skill and risk aversion, incomplete financial markets, and redistributive taxation. In equilibrium, agents become entrepreneurs if their skill is sufficiently high or risk aversion sufficiently low. Under heavier taxation, entrepreneurs are more...

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Some like it smooth, and some like it rough : untangling continuous and jump components in measuring, modeling, and forecasting asset return volatility

Andersen, Torben (contributor); Bollerslev, Tim (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Robust-H-infinity Forecasting and Asset Pricing Anomalies

Tornell, Aaron - 2000

We present an alternative expectation formation mechanism that helps rationalize well known asset pricing anomalies, such as the predictability of excess returns, excess volatility, and the equity-premium puzzle. As with rational expectations (RE), the expectation formation mechanism we consider...

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Forecasting Crashes : Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices

Chen, Joseph - 2000

This paper is an investigation into the determinants of asymmetries in stock returns. We develop a series of cross-sectional regression specifications which attempt to forecast skewness in the daily returns of individual stocks. Negative skewness is most pronounced in stocks that have...

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Have Individual Stocks Become More Volatile? An Empirical Exploration of Idiosyncratic Risk

Campbell, John Y. - 2000

This paper uses a disaggregated approach to study the volatility of common stocks at the market, industry, and firm levels. Over the period 1962-97 there has been a noticeable increase in firm-level volatility relative to market volatility. Accordingly correlations among individual stocks and...

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Dispersion and Volatility in Stock Returns : An Empirical Investigation

Campbell, John Y. - 1999

This paper studies three different measures of monthly stock market volatility: the time-series volatility of daily market returns within the month; the cross-sectional volatility or 'dispersion' of daily returns on industry portfolios, relative to the market, within the month; and the...

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