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volatility over the next month, but with decreasing realized volatility. These predictability patterns are consistent with …
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findings have implications for market-wide volatility - the model-implied correlations alone can explain 44% of the cross …-section of aggregate volatility. The results are robust to controlling for a number of alternative factors put forth by the …
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Recent evidence of excessive comovement among stocks following index additions (Barberis, Shleifer, and Wurgler, 2005) and stock splits (Green and Hwang, 2009) challenges traditional finance theory. Based on a simple model, we show that the bivariate regressions relied upon in the literature...
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Do financial markets properly reflect leverage? Unlike Gomes and Schmid (2010) who examine this question with a structural approach (using long-term monthly stock characteristics), my paper examines it with a quasi-experimental approach (using short-term a discrete event). After a firm has...
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, including the average equity premium and the volatility of equity returns. We construct a model with RE (temporary and permanent … parts) and LRR (including stochastic volatility) and estimate this model with long-term data on aggregate consumption for 42 … country- specific events. LRR reflects gradual and evolving processes that influence long-run growth rates and volatility. A …
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We propose a nonparametric method to test which characteristics provide independent information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...
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High volatility and high beta stocks tilt strongly to small, unprofitable, and growth firms. These tilts explain the … the abnormal performance of defensive equity (i.e., low volatility and/or low beta strategies). While defensive strategy …
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This paper explores whether affine models with volatility jumps estimated on intradaily S&P 500 futures data over 1983 … typically small, and that self-exciting but short-lived volatility spikes capture intradaily and daily returns better …
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market in a general-equilibrium model of the world economy. We analyze the impact of the advent of fracking on the volatility … of oil prices. Our model predicts a large decline in this volatility …
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future oil price volatility derived from the NYMEX futures options market. Using a dynamic model of firms' investment problem …, I find that oil companies respond to changes in expected price volatility by adjusting their drilling activity by a …
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