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We study the economic sources of stock-bond return comovements and its time variation using a dynamic factor model. We … stock and bond return correlations, but that other factors, especially liquidity proxies, play a more important role. The … macro factors are still important in fitting bond return volatility; whereas the "variance premium" is critical in …
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predict bond returns. This paper shows that the statistical tests underlying this evidence are subject to serious small …
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We apply the method of constrained asset share estimation (CASE) to test the mean-variance efficiency (MVE) of the …
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value premium is larger in %u201Cbad times,%u201D due to time variation in risk preferences; (c) the unconditional CAPM … rationalizes why the conditional CAPM and a Fama and French (1993) HML factor outperform the unconditional CAPM …
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unconditional mean- variance efficiency of a world market portfolio, our evidence indicates that the tests are low in power, and the … world market betas do not provide a good explanation of cross-sectional differences in average returns. Multiple beta models …
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Short-rebate fees are a strong predictor of the cross-section of stock returns, both gross and net of fees. We document a large "shorting premium": the cheap-minus-expensive-to-short (CME) portfolio of stocks has a monthly average gross return of 1.43%, a net return of 0.91%, and a 1.53%...
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A single macroeconomic factor based on growth in the capital share of aggregate income exhibits significant explanatory … estimates that are of the same sign and similar in magnitude. Positive exposure to capital share risk earns a positive risk … premium, commensurate with recent asset pricing models in which redistributive shocks shift the share of income between the …
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Gorton and Rouwenhorst (2006) examined commodity futures returns over the period July 1959 to December 2004 based on an equally-weighted index. They found that fully collateralized commodity futures had historically offered the same return and Sharpe ratio as U.S. equities, but were negatively...
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We test whether the impact of financial constraints on firm value is observable in assetquot; returns. We form portfolios of firms based on observable characteristics related to financialquot; constraints, and test for common covariation in the stock returns of these firms. Using severalquot;...
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Despite their strong positive average returns across numerous asset classes, momentum strategies can experience infrequent and persistent strings of negative returns. These momentum crashes are partly forecastable. They occur in "panic" states - following market declines and when market...
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