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The supply/demand of a security in the market is an intertemporal, not a static, object and its dynamics is crucial in determining market participants' trading behavior. Previous studies on the optimal trading strategy to execute a given order focuses mostly on the static properties of the...
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Many firms have stockholders who face severe restrictions on their ability to sell their shares and diversify the risk …
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The covariance between US Treasury bond returns and stock returns has moved considerably over time. While it was slightly positive on average in the period 1953--2009, it was unusually high in the early 1980''s and negative in the 2000''s, particularly in the downturns of 2000--02 and 2007--09....
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We make use of a new database on daily currency fund manager returns over a three-year period, 2005-08. This higher frequency data allows us to estimate both alpha measures of performance and beta style factors on a yearly basis, which in turn allows us to test for persistence. We find no...
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. We show that even a small wedge between borrowing costs and the risk-free return dramatically shrinks the demand for … consumption growth and equity returns is low at all ages, and that risk aversion estimates based on the standard excess return … borrowing costs and risk aversion, and the standard deviation of marginal utility growth is an order of magnitude smaller than …
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If an investor wants to form a portfolio of risky assets and can exert effort to collect information on the future value of these assets before he invests, which assets should he learn about? The best assets to acquire information about are ones the investor expects to hold. But the assets the...
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This paper investigates how taxes influence portfolio choices by exploring the response to the distinctive treatment of foreign dividends in the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act (JGTRRA). JGTRRA lowered the dividend tax rate to 15% for American equities and extended this tax relief...
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We discuss the foreign currency forward premium puzzle in the context of 20 internationally tradable emerging market currencies. We find that since the late 1990s the broad basket of emerging market currencies has provided significant equity-like excess returns against a number of major market...
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be attractive to risk-minimizing global equity investors despite their low average returns. The risk-minimizing currency … little evidence that risk-minimizing investors should adjust their currency positions in response to movements in interest …
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. Welfare gains from this strategy can amount to 40 percent of financial wealth (depending on risk parameters and other …
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