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Private Benefits of Control : An International Comparison
Dyck, Alexander - 2002
We construct a measure of the private benefits of control in 39 countries based on 412 control transactions between 1990 and 2000. We find that the value of control ranges between 4% and +65%, with an average of 14 percent. As predicted by theory, in countries where private benefits of control...
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Global Real Estate Markets - Cycles and Fundamentals
Case, Bradford - 2000
segmented. While industrial, office and retail properties exist all around the world, they are not economic substitutes because … attribute a substantial amount of the correlation across world property markets to the effects of changes in GNP, suggesting …
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The Empirical Risk-Return Relation : A Factor Analysis Approach
Ludvigson, Sydney C. - 2005
A key criticism of the existing empirical literature on the risk-return relation relates to the relatively small amount of conditioning information used to model the conditional mean and conditional volatility of excess stock market returns. To the extent that financial market participants have...
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A Decomposition of Global Linkages in Financial Markets Over Time
Forbes, Kristin J. - 2003
This paper tests if real and financial linkages between countries can explain why movements in the world's largest … between the world's 5 largest economies and about 40 other markets to decompose the cross-country factor loadings into: direct … to be the most important determinant of how movements in the world's largest markets affect financial markets around the …
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Efficiency and the Bear : Short Sales and Markets around the World
Goetzmann, William N. - 2003
We analyze cross-sectional and time series information from forty-seven equity markets around the world, to consider …
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Answering the Critics : Yes, ARCH Models Do Provide Good Volatility Forecasts
Andersen, Torben G. - 1997
Volatility permeates modern financial theories and decision making processes. As such, accurate measures and good forecasts of future volatility are critical for the implementation and evaluation of asset pricing theories. In response to this, a voluminous literature has emerged for modeling the...
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Analyzing Investments Whose Histories Differ in Length
Stambaugh, Robert F. - 1997
-history assets, but for the shorter-history assets as well. To account for the remaining parameter uncertainty, or estimation risk … the value of using the combined sample of histories and accounting for estimation risk, as compared to truncating the … sample to produce equal-length histories or ignoring estimation risk by using maximum-likelihood estimates …
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Consumption Risk and International Asset Returns : Some Empirical Evidence
Cumby, Robert E. - 1987
The paper examines if real stock returns in four countries are consistent with consumption-based models of international asset pricing. The paper finds that ex-ante real stock returns exhibit statistically significant fluctuations over time and that these fluctuations cannot be explained by...
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Momentum Crashes
Daniel, Kent - 2014
Despite their strong positive average returns across numerous asset classes, momentum strategies can experience infrequent and persistent strings of negative returns. These momentum crashes are partly forecastable. They occur in "panic" states - following market declines and when market...
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Carry
Koijen, Ralph S.J. - 2013
A security's expected return can be decomposed into its "carry" and its expected price appreciation, where carry can be measured in advance without an asset pricing model. We find that carry predicts returns both in the cross section and time series for a variety of different asset classes that...
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