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Forecasting Crashes : Trading Volume, Past Returns and Conditional Skewness in Stock Prices

Chen, Joseph - 2000

This paper is an investigation into the determinants of asymmetries in stock returns. We develop a series of cross-sectional regression specifications which attempt to forecast skewness in the daily returns of individual stocks. Negative skewness is most pronounced in stocks that have...

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Tests of Excess Forecast Volatility in the Foreign Exchange and Stock Markets

Froot, Kenneth A. - 1987

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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How and When are High-Frequency Stock Returns Predictable?

Aït-Sahalia, Yacine; Fan, Jianqing; Xue, Lirong; Zhou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper studies the predictability of ultra high-frequency stock returns and durations to relevant price, volume and transactions events, using machine learning methods. We find that, contrary to low frequency and long horizon returns, where predictability is rare and inconsistent,...

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Estimating the Covariates of Historical Heights

Trussell, James - 1984

Data on human height can provide an index that may measure more accurately changes in the standard of living than the more conventional real wage index. Height data, like those on real wages, are relatively abundant and extend back to the seventeenth century. In a previous paper, we developed...

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Identification and Estimation of 'Irregular' Correlated Random Coefficient Models

Graham, Bryan S. - 2008

In this paper we study identification and estimation of a correlated random coefficients (CRC) panel data model. The …

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The Forecasting Ability of Correlations Implied in Foreign Exchange Options

Campa, Jose M. - 1997

This paper evaluates the forecasting accuracy of correlation derived from implied volatilities in dollar-mark, dollar …-yen, and mark-yen options from January 1989 to May 1995. As a forecast of realized correlation between the dollar-mark and … dollar-yen, implied correlation is compared against three alternative forecasts based on time series data: historical …

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Comovement

Barberis, Nicholas - 2002

A number of studies have identifed patterns of positive correlation of returns, or comovement, among different traded …

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Levered Returns

Welch, Ivo - 2016

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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Alternative Models For Conditional Stock Volatility

Pagan, Adrian R. - 1989

This paper compares several statistical models for monthly stock return volatility. The focus is on U.S. data from 1834-19:5 because the post-1926 data have been analyzed in more detail by others. Also, the Great Depression had levels of stock volatility that are inconsistent with stationary...

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Probabilistic Prediction for Binary Treatment Choice : with Focus on Personalized Medicine

Manski, Charles F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper extends my research applying statistical decision theory to treatment choice with sample data, using maximum regret to evaluate the performance of treatment rules. The specific new contribution is to study as-if optimization using estimates of illness probabilities in clinical choice...

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