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The beta dispersion, which is the spread of betas on a stock market, can be interpreted as a measure of market … vulnerability. This study examines the economic idea of the beta dispersion and its application as a market return predictor. Based … on the empirical beta dispersion observed in the US equity market, the study develops measures to predict future market …
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This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
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Using a unique data set that contains the complete ownership structure of the German stock market, we study the momentum and contrarian trading of different investor groups. Foreign investors and financial institutions, and especially mutual funds, are momentum traders, whereas private...
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This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...
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no leverage. Yet using unique granular data on the bond holdings of institutional funds, we show that their trading …
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For the DAX index market, this paper analyses the development of return differences between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the DAX index from the perspective of long-term investors. The newly introduced methodology provides the opportunity to continuously identify long-term costs of passively...
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activities. For this purpose, I propose a novel measure of synthetic leverage, which can be estimated based on publicly available … information. In the empirical application, I show that German equity funds have increased their risk-taking via synthetic leverage …
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-varying correlation ; regime transition ; multivariate GARCH ; smooth transition ; cross-asset correlation ; non-linear estimation …
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We analyse sub-custodian chains using a unique data set from a survey. Our key question is whether there is any evidence for moral hazard in the delegation of asset safe-keeping to sub-custodians. Sub-custodian chains can be relatively long and frequently reach across several countries. The risk...
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