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This paper implements a novel model-free methodology to measure skewness risk premia in individual stocks. The … skewness risk premium in individual stocks. The risk premium massively increased after the 2008/2009 financial crisis due to an … increase in the price of put options in individual stocks. Part of this skewness risk premium is idiosyncratic. Frictions on …
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This paper contains comments on Nonparametric Tail Risk, Stock Returns and the Macroeconomy …
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-series behavior of the premium for the risk of changes in asset correlations (the premium for correlation risk), including its inverse …
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We build a macroeconomic model for Switzerland, the Euro Area, and the USA that drives the dynamics of several asset classes and the liabilities of a representative Swiss (defined-contribution) pension fund. This encompassing approach allows us to generate correlations between returns on assets...
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Average skewness, which is defined as the average of monthly skewness values across firms, performs well at predicting future market returns. This result still holds after controlling for the size or liquidity of the firms or for current business cycle conditions. We also find that average...
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Using textual analysis and comparing cybersecurity-risk disclosures of firms that were hacked to others that were not …, we propose a novel firm-level measure of cybersecurity risk for all US-listed firms. We then examine whether … cybersecurity risk is priced in the cross-section of stock returns. Portfolios of firms with high exposure to cybersecurity risk …
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"Systematic Downside Risk" (SDR) is defined to characterize this asymmetry in the comovement of betas. This indicator negatively …
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Recent literature suggests that trading by institutional investors may affect the first and second moments of returns. Elaborating on this intuition, we conjecture that arbitrageurs can propagate liquidity shocks between related markets. The paper provides evidence in this direction by studying...
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We construct risk-neutral return probability distributions from S&P 500 options data over the decade 2003 to 2013 …. We evaluate a "real-minus-implied risk premium", defined as the difference between real and option-implied returns, which … reveals a doubling of the risk-aversion of investors, from 8% in the pre-crisis to 16% in the post-crisis period. Granger …
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We classify the sentiment of a large sample of StockTwits messages as bullish,bearish or neutral, and create a stock-aggregate daily sentiment polarity measure.Polarity is positively associated with contemporaneous stock returns. On average,polarity is not able to predict next-day stock returns....
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