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appropriate measure of an asset's risk is the covariance of the asset's return with the market return. The consumption CAPM, on … this paper, we compare two formulations of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. The traditional CAPM suggests that the … the other hand, implies that a better measure of risk is the covariance with aggregate consumption growth. We examine a …
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movements in the equity risk premium), while the cash flows of value stocks are particularly sensitive to permanent movements in … investor sentiment. More generally, accounting measures of firm-level risk have predictive power for firms' betas with market …
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Existing research has documented cross-sectional seasonality of stock returns--the periodic outperformance of certain stocks relative to others during the same calendar month, weekday, or pre-holiday periods. A model in which stocks differ in their sensitivities to investor mood explains these...
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Using a dataset of $17 trillion of assets under management, we document that actively-managed institutional accounts outperformed strategy benchmarks by 86 (42) basis points gross (net) during 2000-2012. In return, asset managers collected $162 billion in fees per year for managing 29% of...
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Average idiosyncratic volatility and firm idiosyncratic volatility increase with the number of listed firms. Average industry idiosyncratic volatility increases with the number of listed firms in the industry. We ex-plain the relation between idiosyncratic volatility and the number of listed...
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pricing individual stocks and test portfolios, while delivering transparent trading strategies and risk-adjusted investment …
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demanding a premium for hedging risk. This paper examines the consistency of those explanations with returns on dynamically … options to also have negative excess returns. Empirically, synthetic options have CAPM alphas near zero over the period 1926 … on synthetic options -- with the variance risk premium shrinking towards zero -- while various drivers of the cost and …
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hedges for war risk receiving lower risk premia, or with assets that are more positively sensitive to war prospects being …
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Sparse models, though long preferred and pursued by social scientists, can be ineffective or unstable relative to large models, for example, in economic predictions (Giannone et al., 2021). To achieve sparsity for economic interpretation while exploiting big data for superior empirical...
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We survey the nascent literature on machine learning in the study of financial markets. We highlight the best examples of what this line of research has to offer and recommend promising directions for future research. This survey is designed for both financial economists interested in grasping...
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