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research on this hypothesis to open-market share repurchases. Empirical tests showed that the implied volatility spread was not … implied volatility spread and subsequent stock return volatility around open-market share repurchase events. We concluded that … option traders have private information on the volatility of stock returns and superior information processing ability that …
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Using a large database of U.S. seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcements from 2010 to 2015, we examine the effects of several explanatory variables-firm specific, macroeconomic, fixed income, and stock market variables-on the announcement period abnormal stock returns and on the longer-run...
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Using a large sample of bank seasoned equity offerings (SEO) from 2002 to 2017, we first documented detailed descriptive statistics, and showed that nonperforming assets ratio, our primary measure of bank asset quality, reached the highest value immediately after the 2008 economic crisis, which...
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Recent academic studies document that open market share repurchase announcements in the United States generate significantly lower returns than those reported in earlier studies. We find that the lower announcement return is associated with an increasing number of subsequent announcements in the...
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This paper studies the effect of COVID-19 on the volatility of Australian stock returns and the effect of negative and … positive news (shocks) by investigating the asymmetric nature of the shocks and leverage impact on volatility. We employ a … than the GARCH model in estimating the volatility of the Australian stock returns. However, another interesting finding is …
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This paper uses two highly liquid S&P 500 and gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to evaluate the impact of liquidity and macroeconomic news surprises on the frequency of observing intraday jumps. It explicitly addresses market microstructure noise-induced biases in realized estimators used in...
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economics and financial markets, the effects of combining multiple news shocks on the volatility of tourism demand have not yet …), conditional heteroscedastic volatility models, and multiple news shocks are suitable for forecasting the volatility of the … Malaysian tourist industry. Among them, three primarily volatility models (GARCH, EGARCH, and GJRGARCH) are used in conjunction …
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trading around quarterly earnings announcements is either directionally motivated and/or volatility motivated. We found … volatility-motivated option trading, and our results suggest that this type of option trading could be motivated by hedging …
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Using a large database of U.S. mergers and acquisitions (M&As) announced from 2010 through 2017, we examine the effects of capital ratio (leverage) on the announcement period stock price reaction as well as on longer-term stock returns and performance, for banks, making comparisons with...
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Due to the non-normality of stock returns, nonparametric rank tests are gaining accceptance relative to parametric tests in financial economics event studies. In rank tests, financial assets’ multiple day cumulative abnormal returns (CARs) are replaced by cumulated ranks. This paper proposes...
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