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We study the link between the profitability of momentum strategies and firm size, drawing on an extensive dataset … covering 14 stock markets across the globe. International momentum profitability is markedly higher in medium-size than in big … incurred when implementing this strategy. Thus, while small stocks exhibit momentum, exploiting this feature is hardly feasible …
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I model a market in which a trader with superior information about an asset is subject to careful scrutiny by another agent who immediately observes the trading decisions of the informed agent with some noise and engages in (klepto)parasitic behavior by imicking the informed trader and trading...
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Modern open economy macro models assume the continuous adjustment of international portfolio allocation. We introduce gradual portfolio adjustment into a global equity market model. Our approach differs from related literature in two key dimensions. First, the time interval between portfolio...
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We find that investors are fixated on analysts' consensus outputs (earnings forecasts, recommendations, and forecast dispersion), which can be inferior signals compared to the corresponding outputs provided by high-quality analysts, especially when a large number of high-quality analysts follow...
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This paper studies the earnings management behavior of a manager in a strategic game in which the manager may have incentives to avoid earnings below the analysts' consensus forecast and the analysts aiming to provide accurate forecasts behave as rational Bayesians. Our analysis reveals the...
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The current accounting and regulatory framework grants banks considerable discretion in the treatment of investment securities. We show that banks' use of this discretion increases the information asymmetry reflected in their equity prices. In addition, we find that this source of bank opacity...
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We provide the first global estimates of profit shifting at the subsidiary-year level. Employing nonparametric estimation techniques within a mainstay model of profit shifting, we examine the subsidiary-year responses of earnings to the composite tax indicator faced by all subsidiaries of a...
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Based on signaling theory, we examine the role of external reviews during the life-cycle of corporate green bonds. We focus on (1) whether investment greenness is related to external review upon issuing a green bond and (2) whether disclosure quality is positively associated with the assurance...
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premium attached to the option-like payoffs of past losers. An implementable dynamic momentum strategy based on forecasts of … each momentum strategy's mean and variance generates an unconditional Sharpe ratio approximately double that of the static … momentum strategy. Further, we show that momentum returns in panic states are correlated with, but not explained by, volatility …
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. Our extensive out-of-sample analysis shows that the new fractional momentum strategy not only achieves significantly …
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