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The Stock Market Valuation of Research and Development Expenditures

Chan, Louis K.C. - 1999

We examine whether stock prices fully reflect the value of firms' intangible assets, focusing on research and development (R&D). Since intangible assets are not reported on financial statements under current U.S. accounting standards and R&D spending is expensed, the valuation problem may be...

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On Portfolio Optimization : Forecasting Covariances and Choosing the Risk Model

Chan, Louis K.C. - 1999

We evaluate the performance of different models for the covariance structure of stock returns, focusing on their use for optimal portfolio selection. Comparisons are based on forecasts of future covariances as well as the out-of-sample volatility of optimized portfolios from each model. A few...

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Conditioning Variables and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1999

Previous studies have identified predetermined variables that have some power to explain the time series of stock and bond returns. This paper shows that loadings on the same variables also provide significant cross-sectional explanatory power for stock portfolio returns. These loadings are...

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Spurious Regressions in Financial Economics?

Ferson, Wayne E. - 2002

Even though stock returns are not highly autocorrelated, there is a spurious regression bias in predictive regressions for stock returns related to the classic studies of Yule (1926) and Granger and Newbold (1974). Data mining for predictor variables interacts with spurious regression bias. The...

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Performance Evaluation with Stochastic Discount Factors

Farnsworth, Heber - 2002

managers. By constructing artificial mutual funds with known levels of investment ability, we evaluate a large set of SDF …

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Stochastic Discount Factor Bounds with Conditioning Information

Ferson, Wayne E. - 2002

Hansen and Jagannathan (HJ, 1991) describe restrictions on the volatility of stochastic discount factors (SDFs) that price a given set of asset returns. This paper compares the sampling properties of different versions of HJ bounds that use conditioning information in the form of a given set of...

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The Risk and Return from Factors

Chan, Louis K. C. - 1997

The ability to identify which factors best capture systematic return covariation is central to applications of multifactor pricing models. This paper uses a common data set to evaluate the performance of various proposed factors in capturing return comovements. Factors associated with the...

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Fundamental Determinants of National Equity Market Returns : A Perspective on Conditional Asset Pricing

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1996

This paper provides a global asset pricing perspective on the debate over the relation between predetermined attributes of common stocks, such as ratios of price-to-book-value, cash-flow, earnings, and other variables to the future returns. Some argue that such variables may be used to find...

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Conditioning Manager Alphas on Economic Information : Another Look at the Persistence of Performance

Christopherson, Jon A. - 1996

This paper evaluates persistence in the performance of institutional equity managers. We build on recent work on … investment performance of pension fund managers persists over time. A conditional approach is able to better detect this … especially concentrated in the managers with negative prior-period conditional alphas. " …

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Sources of Risk and Expected Returns in Global Equity Markets

Ferson, Wayne E. - 1994

This paper empirically examines multifactor asset pricing models for the returns and expected returns on eighteen national equity markets. The factors are chosen to measure global economic risks. Although previous studies do not reject the unconditional mean- variance efficiency of a world...

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