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Should smart investors buy funds with high returns in the past?
Palomino, Frédéric; Uhlig, Harald - 2002
Newspapers and weekly magazines catering to the investing crowd often rank funds according to the returns generated in the past. Aside from satisfying sheer curiosity, these numbers are probably also the basis on which investors pick a fund to invest in. In this article, we fully characterize...
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Quantifying the value of initial investment information
Amendinger, Jürgen; Becherer, Dirk; Schweizer, Martin - 2000
We consider an investor maximizing his expected utility from terminal wealth with portfolio decisions based on the available information flow. This investor faces the opportunity to acquire some additional initial information G.. The subjective fair value of this information for the investor is...
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Weekday dependence of German stock market returns
Herwartz, Helmut - 1999
exchange the paper compares estimation results of parametric and nonparametric autoregressive models with respect to possible …
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The market reaction to stock splits : evidence from Germany
Wulff, Christian - 1999
Although stock splits seem to be a purely cosmetic event, there exists ample empirical evidence from the United States that stock splits are associated with abnormal returns on both the announcement and the execution day, and additionally with an increase in variance following the ex-day. This...
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Fractional cointegration and tests of present value models
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2000
This paper tests the validity of Present Value (PV) models of stock prices by employing a two-step strategy for testing the null hypothesis of no cointegration against alternatives which are fractionally cointegrated. Monte Carlo simulations are conducted to evaluate the power and size...
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Tax evasion and risky investments in an intertemporal context : an experimental study
Giese, Sebastian; Hoffmann, Antje - 2000
donated to charity organizations. Our main results show that higher income induces tax fraud and that gender differences exist. …
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Estimation and arbitrage opportunities for exchange rate baskets
Mercurio, Danilo; Torricelli, Costanza - 2001
estimation …
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The local power of some unit root tests for panel data
Breitung, Jörg - 1999
(1993) and Im, Pesaran and Shin (1997) suggest bias adjusted t-statistics. Such corrections are necessary to account for the … affected by two different terms. The first term represents the asymptotic effect on the bias due the detrending method and the … do not require a bias correction. The results of a Monte Carlo experiment suggest that avoiding the bias can improve the …
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Measurement error, biases, and the validation of complex models
Carroll, Raymond J.; Galindo, Christian D. - 1997
There are three major points to this article: 1. Measurement error causes biases in regression fits. The line one would obtain if one could accurately measure exposure to environmental lead media will differ in important ways when one measures exposure with error. 2. The effects of measurement...
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No free lunch for large investors
Bank, Peter - 1999
We study an extension of the classical B1ack-Scholes model which accounts for feedback effects from trading in an imperfectly elastic market. The proposed semi-martingale model may be viewed as a compromise between the diffusion approach in, e.g., (Cuoco and Cvitanic 1998), (Cvitanic and Ma...
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