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Time-varying risk and the relation between idiosyncratic risk and stock return
Fu, Chengbo - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 9, pp. 1-16
This paper studies the historical time-varying dynamics of risk for individual stocks in the U.S. market. Total risk of an individual stock is decomposed into two components, systematic risk and idiosyncratic risk, and both components are studied separately. We start from the historical trend in...
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Evidence of economic policy uncertainty and COVID-19 pandemic on global stock returns
Chiang, Thomas C. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 1, pp. 1-24
This paper examines the impact of changes in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and COVID-19 shock on stock returns. Tests of 16 global stock market indices, using monthly data from January 1990 to August 2021, suggest a negative relation between the stock return and a country’s EPU. Evidence...
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The equity curve and its relation to future stock returns
Stotz, Olaf - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 13 (2020) 2/19, pp. 1-16
Using option prices, a new method for estimating the term structure of expected stock returns (equity curve) is proposed. We analyse how the equity curve relates to future stock returns and obtain three main results. First, a higher level of the equity curve is associated with higher future...
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The effect of industry restructuring on peer firms
Holcomb, Alex; Mason, Paul - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-25
We study the bond price reaction of a merged firms peers, in order to better understand how the market responds to a … equity holders expect a direct benefit from a potential acquisition - in the form of a price premium-peer firm bond holders … reduction in risk as the explicit return driver, we show that abnormal bond returns within firm (between different bond issues …
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Do REITs outperform stocks and fixed-income assets? : new evidence from mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches
Chiang, Thomas C.; Hooi Hooi Lean; Wong, Wing Keung - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 1 (2008) 1, pp. 1-40
This paper re-examines the performance of REITs, stocks, and fixed-income assets based on the preferences of risk-averse and risk-seeking investors using mean-variance and stochastic dominance approaches. Our findings indicate no first-order stochastic dominance and no arbitrage opportunity...
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On survivor stocks in the S&P 500 stock index
Grobys, Klaus - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-24
This paper investigates the performance and characteristics of survivor stocks in the S&P 500 index. Using both in-sample and out-of-sample comparisons, survivor stocks outperformed this market index by a considerable margin. Relative to other S&P 500 index companies, survivor stocks tend to be...
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A comparative analysis of the nature of stock return volatility in BRICS and G7 markets
Muguto, Lorraine; Muzindutsi, Paul-Francois - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 2, pp. 1-27
Through globalization and financial market liberalization, the opening up of markets has increased cross-border investments as investors search for higher risk-adjusted returns. This ability to invest internationally has raised the attention given to emerging markets that offer higher...
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The influence of oil prices on equity returns of Canadian energy firms
Batabyal, Sourav; Killins, Robert - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 5, pp. 1-16
Using monthly data from January 2000 to August 2018, this paper examines how the Canadian oil and gas industry and individual firms’ equity prices react to oil price fluctuations, which are measured by the traditional West Texas Intermediate (WTI) benchmark and the Canada-specific Western...
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Quantile risk-return trade-off
Aslanidis, Nektarios; Christiansen, Charlotte; Savva, … - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 14 (2021) 6, pp. 1-14
We investigate the risk-return trade-off on the US and European stock markets. We investigate the non-linear risk-return trade-off with a special eye to the tails of the stock returns using quantile regressions. We first consider the US stock market portfolio. We find that the risk-return...
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The time-varying relation between stock returns and monetary variables
McMillan, David G. - In: Journal of risk and financial management : JRFM 15 (2022) 1, pp. 1-17
The nature of the relation between stock returns and the three monetary variables of interest rates (bond yields …. Notably, a predominantly negative correlation with bond yields and inflation becomes positive, while the opposite is true for …
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