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Frazzini, Andrea; Pedersen, Lasse Heje - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 1, pp. 1-25

-beta assets, produces significant positive risk-adjusted returns. (3) When funding constraints tighten, the return of the BAB … factor is low. (4) Increased funding liquidity risk compresses betas toward one. (5) More constrained investors hold riskier …

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Global, local, and contagious investor sentiment

Baker, Malcolm; Wurgler, Jeffrey; Yuan, Yu - In: Journal of Financial Economics 104 (2012) 2, pp. 272-287

We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a contrarian predictor of...

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The option to stock volume ratio and future returns

Johnson, Travis L.; So, Eric C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 106 (2012) 2, pp. 262-286

We examine the information content of option and equity volumes when trade direction is unobserved. In a multimarket asymmetric information model, equity short-sale costs result in a negative relation between relative option volume and future firm value. In our empirical tests, firms in the...

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Asset pricing: A tale of two days

Savor, Pavel; Wilson, Mungo - In: Journal of Financial Economics 113 (2014) 2, pp. 171-201

portfolios, and even for bonds and currencies, suggesting that beta is after all an important measure of systematic risk …. Furthermore, a robust risk–return trade-off exists on announcement days. Expected variance is positively related to future …

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A new approach to predicting analyst forecast errors: Do investors overweight analyst forecasts?

So, Eric C. - In: Journal of Financial Economics 108 (2013) 3, pp. 615-640

I provide evidence that investors overweight analyst forecasts by demonstrating that prices do not fully reflect predictable components of analyst errors, which conflicts with conclusions in prior research. I highlight estimation bias in traditional approaches and develop a new approach that...

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Momentum has its moments

Barroso, Pedro; Santa-Clara, Pedro - In: Journal of Financial Economics 116 (2015) 1, pp. 111-120

kurtosis. We find that the risk of momentum is highly variable over time and predictable. Managing this risk virtually … eliminates crashes and nearly doubles the Sharpe ratio of the momentum strategy. Risk-managed momentum is a much greater puzzle …

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CAPM for estimating the cost of equity capital: Interpreting the empirical evidence

Da, Zhi; Guo, Re-Jin; Jagannathan, Ravi - In: Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012) 1, pp. 204-220

We argue that the empirical evidence against the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) based on stock returns does not … returns on stocks need not satisfy the CAPM even when expected returns of projects do. We provide empirical support for our … arguments by developing a method for estimating firms' project CAPM betas and project returns. Our findings justify the …

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Endogenous liquidity in credit derivatives

Qiu, Jiaping; Yu, Fan - In: Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012) 3, pp. 611-631

We study the determination of liquidity provision in the single-name credit default swap (CDS) market as measured by the number of distinct dealers providing quotes. We find that liquidity is concentrated among large obligors and those near the investment-grade/speculative-grade cutoff....

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Pricing of commercial real estate securities during the 2007–2009 financial crisis

Driessen, Joost; Van Hemert, Otto - In: Journal of Financial Economics 105 (2012) 1, pp. 37-61

We study the relative and absolute pricing of CMBX contracts (commercial real estate derivatives) during the recent financial crisis. Using a structural CMBX pricing model, we find little systematic mispricing relative to REIT equity and options. We do find short-term deviations from this...

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Does option trading convey stock price information?

Hu, Jianfeng - In: Journal of Financial Economics 111 (2014) 3, pp. 625-645

After executing option orders, options market makers turn to the stock market to hedge away the underlying stock exposure. As a result, the stock exposure imbalance in option transactions translates into an imbalance in stock transactions. This paper decomposes the total stock order imbalance...

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