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, these results give further confirmation that the latter group of markets can serve as good avenues for portfolio …
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optimal allocations which stochastically dominate the restricted portfolio according to Barrett-Donald (2003) tests. The …
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risk aversion. The intuition is that it plays the role of high risk aversion in portfolio choice. But if so, should these … risk aversion? They might not because stock market returns are asymmetrically correlated. We analyze the portfolio problem …
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formation. It is shown how international portfolio choice in frictionless financial markets with habit formation is in itself a …
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by the discount-factor-based approach of Brandt, Cochrane, and Santa-Clara (2001), even when consumption and portfolio … holdings exhibit "home bias". We also show how portfolio externalities can arise in the model, and highlight the caution that … one needs in interpreting discount-factor-based measures of international risk sharing: in the presence of portfolio …
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: This paper tests the random walk hypothesis for the stock markets of the US, Japan, Germany, the UK, Hong Kong and Australia using unit root tests and spectral analysis. The results based upon the augmented Dicky Fuller (1979) and Phillips-Perron (1988) tests and spectral analysis find that...
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We show that very little is needed to create liquidity under-supply in equilibrium: only the presence of credit constraints on demand. We show that the under-supply is a non-monotone function of the demand distortion that causes it, a result that may have interesting implications for emerging...
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This paper presents both the time-series and cross-country evidence on the growth of global equity markets and attempts to shed some light on the sources of equity market growth. Using data on 33 countries, I find that development of financial intermediaries and openness to trade are positively...
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This paper tests for the martingale (or random walk) hypothesis in the stock prices of a group of Asian countries. The selected countries represent well-developed markets (Hong Kong and Japan) as well as emerging markets (Korea, Taiwan and Thailand). This paper adopts a new joint variance ratio...
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We examine the influence of global and regional factors on the conditional distribution of stock returns from six Asian markets, using factor models in which unexpected returns comprise global, regional and local shocks. The models allow for conditional heteroskedasticity and time-varying...
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