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From a sample of 910 U.S. firms over the period 1977 1996, we find that structure of the empirical model has significant impacts on resulting estimates of exchange rate exposures from equity returns. While lengthening the return horizon has minimal impact on exposure estimates, the inclusion of...
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Optimal investment of firms implies that expected stock returns are tied with the expected marginal benefit of investment divided by the marginal cost of investment. Winners have higher expected growth and expected marginal productivity (two major components of the marginal benefit of...
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medium and long term forecasting. In this paper, we develop conditions under which a misspecified ARCH model successfully … performs both tasks, filtering and forecasting. The key requirement (in addition to the conditions for consistent filtering) is …
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We present a framework for analyzing “model persuasion.” Persuaders influence receivers' beliefs by proposing models (likelihood functions) that specify how to organize past data (e.g., on investment performance) to make predictions (e.g., about future returns). Receivers are assumed to find...
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We construct factors from a cross section of exchange rates and use the idiosyncratic deviations from the factors to forecast. In a stylized data generating process, we show that such forecasts can be effective even if there is essentially no serial correlation in the univariate exchange rate...
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Simple regression tests that have power against the alternatives that. asset prices and expected future asset returns are excessively volatile are developed and performed for the foreign exchange and stock markets. These tests have a number of advantages over alternative, variance hounds...
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and forecasting. Building on the theory of continuous-time arbitrage-free price processes and the theory of quadratic … forecasting of daily and lower frequency volatility and return distributions. Most procedures for modeling and forecasting … returns, and correspondingly accurate quantile estimates. Our results hold promise for practical modeling and forecasting of …
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We present theory and evidence that challenges the view that forward premia contain little information regarding …
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forecasting services that use quot;technical analysisquot; did indeed increase sharply during 1983-85, but declined subsequently …
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provide useful information for forecasting exchange rates. After accounting for currency-specific constants, a 10 percent …. Finally, deviations from relative Big Mac parity seem to be helpful in forecasting relative local currency prices. When the U …
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