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Diversification benefits and strategic portfolio allocation across asset classes: The case of the US markets

Arouri, Mohamed; Nguyen, Duc Khuong; Pukthuanthong, Kuntara - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

a traditional portfolio of stocks and bonds significantly improves its risk -adjusted performance. Diversification …

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Can Economic Uncertainty, Financial Stress and Consumer Sentiments Predict U.S. Equity Premium?

Gupta, Rangan; Hammoudeh, Shawkat; Modise, Mampho P.; … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2013

This article attempts to examine whether the equity premium in the United States can be predicted from a comprehensive set of 18 economic and financial predictors over a monthly out-of-sample period of 2000:2 to 2011:12, using an in-sample period of 1990:2-2000:1. To do so, we consider, in...

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Long-Term Investment with Stochastic Interest and Inflation Rates Incompleteness and Compensating Variation

Mkouar, Farid; Prigent, Jean-Luc - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

loss from not having access to an indexed-inflation bond, in order to be hedged against the inflation risk, in particular …

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Research & Development And Volatility Of Equity Returns In The French Market

Gharbi, Sami; Sahut, Jean-Michel; Teulon, Frédéric - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

This paper examines the link between research and development (R&D) and idiosyncratic volatility for a panel of large French quoted companies. We investigate whether the intensity of R&D investment makes the firm’s stocks riskier. We suggest that R&D activities generate information asymmetry...

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Partial Stochastic Dominance

Kamihigashi, Takashi; Stachurski, John - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

The stochastic dominance ordering over probability distributions is one of the most familiar concepts in economic and financial analysis. One difficulty with stochastic dominance is that many distributions are not ranked at all, even when arbitrarily close to other distributions that are....

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Activism of Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance Alerts and Financial Performance

Lantz, Jean-Sebastien; Montandrau, Sophie; Sahut, … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

Institutional investors are predominant on the financial markets and are becoming more active in their portfolio management. This article attempts to enhance our understanding of the incidence of shareholder activism on market reaction in the wake of seve

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Assessing the efficiency of the MENA emerging stock markets: A sectoral perspective

Rejichi, Imen Zgueb; Aloui, Chaker; Nguyen, Duc Khuong - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

Market efficiency is among the foremost criteria for making investment decisions when foreign investors attempt to allocate their funds to emerging market assets. If the markets under consideration are efficient, quoted prices of the assets will serve as useful and reliable signals for capital...

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A wavelet-based copula approach for modeling market risk in agricultural commodity markets

ALOUI, RIADH; AISSA, MOHAMED SAFOUANE BEN; NGUYEN, DUC … - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

We consider the problem of accurate market risk modeling for agricultural commodity products over heterogeneous … daily commodity returns on the three market risk factors (federal funds rate, USD/Euro exchange rate, and world stock market … risks for agricultural commodity markets. Moreover, the tail dependence on the daily returns of the three market risk …

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Policy uncertainty and performance characteristics of sustainable investments across regions around the global financial crisis

Lean, Hooi Hooi; Nguyen, Duc Khuong - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2014

We analyze the performance characteristics of sustainable investments over the period 2004-2013. Our un- conditional analysis shows that the sustainable portfolios, represented by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indi- ces (DJSI) for the global and three regional markets, experience lower Sharpe...

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Equilibrium existence in the international asset and good markets

Bosi, Stefano; Fontaine, Patrice; Le Van, Cuong - Institut de Préparation à l'Administration et à la … - 2013

The international asset pricing models are mostly developed in the case of parity failure (investors of different countries do not agree on the expected returns on securities). In this case, an equilibrium in the in- ternational asset markets may exist, but not in the international good markets....

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