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We examine the extent to which the profitability of the HML, SMB, and WML trading strategies can be linked to future GDP growth. Using a large cross-section of securities from ten developed markets, we find that the HML and SMB portfolios contain significant information about future GDP growth....
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We study the investment behaviour of foreign investors in association with an equity market liberalization, and find a strong link between foreigners' trading and local market returns. In the period following the liberalization, foreigners' net purchases led to a permanent increase in prices, or...
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momentum strategies. We construct domestic and global factors from a large dataset of macroeconomic and financial variables and … consumption variables drive dollar carry trade payoffs and momentum returns are driven by global commodity and U.S. inflation …
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-of-sample test of the performance of carry, momentum and value strategies well documented in the modern era. We find that the … positive carry and momentum returns in currencies over the last thirty years are also present in this earlier period. In … contrast, the returns to a simple value strategy are negative. In addition, we benchmark the rules-based carry and momentum …
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variation in average returns on size-book/market portfolios and up to 95% of momentum returns and the pricing errors on both …Value and momentum portfolios exhibit strong opposite signed exposure to an aggregate risk factor based on low … momentum to the income shares of households in the top 10 versus bottom 90 percent of the stock wealth distribution. We use a …
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This analysis tests the price discovery relationship between sovereign CDS premia and bond yield spreads on the same reference entity. The theoretical no-arbitrage relationship between the two credit spreads is confronted with daily data from six Euro-area countries over the period 2004-2011. As...
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We use a simple model in which the expected returns in emerging markets depend on their systematic risk as measured by their beta relative to the world portfolio as well as on the level of integration in that market. The level of integration is a time-varying variable that depends on the market...
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This paper provides a theory of foreign equity investment restrictions. We consider a model where the demand function for domestic shares differs between domestic and foreign investors because of dead-weight costs in holding domestic and foreign securities that depend on the country of residence...
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This paper examines the co-movement among stock market prices and exchange rates within a three-country Centre-Periphery dynamic equilibrium model in which agents in the Centre country face portfolio constraints. In our model, international transmission occurs through the terms of trade, through...
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International macro-finance is a new area of open economy macroeconomics that brings portfolio choice and asset pricing considerations into models of international macroeconomics. The importance of these considerations--typically relegated to Finance and largely overlooked in traditional...
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