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international portfolio investments, such as relative market liquidity and relative risk characteristics of assets, are also …
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Using a data-set that provides unprecedented details on individual investors’ stockholdings, we analyse whether investors take into account corporate governance when they select stocks. After controlling for the supply effect via free float and other firm characteristics, we find that all...
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finds that common shocks--key crisis events as well as changes to global liquidity and risk--have exerted a large effect on … risk and the strength of domestic macroeconomic fundamentals. Comparing and quantifying these effects shows that common …
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An important question in international finance is to what extent stock return volatility is influenced by country location, industry affiliation, and global factors. This Paper develops a new methodology to measure these effects, in which portfolios mimicking ‘pure’ country and industry...
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Recent empirical work suggests a strong connection between the incentives money managers are offered and their risk … riskiness of the portfolio. This represents a departure from the existing literature on agency theory in that moral hazard is … not only effort exertion but also risk taking behavior. The moral hazard problem with risk taking involves an incentive …
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between risk and uncertainty is implemented by applying the Gilboa-Schmeidler maxmin with multiple priors framework to lenders …
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Conventional wisdom views stocks as less volatile over long horizons than over short horizons due to mean reversion induced by return predictability. In contrast, we find stocks are substantially more volatile over long horizons from an investor's perspective. This perspective recognizes that...
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We economically motivate and then test a range of hypotheses regarding performance and risk differences between UCITS … exhibit higher levels of operational risk. We find evidence of a strong liquidity premium: hedge funds offer investors less … liquidity than do ARUs yet exhibit better risk-adjusted performance. Our findings are substantially unchanged under various …
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We investigate whether acquiring more education when young has long-term effects on risk-taking behavior in financial …
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withdrawal of employers and external insurers as risk bearers of systematic financial and longevity risks. Partly because of … pension: the Personal Pension with Risk sharing (PPR). By unbundling and valuing the investment, (dis)saving, insurance and … risk-sharing functions of pensions, PPRs allow risk management and (dis)saving to be customized to the specific features of …
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