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U.S. stocks are more volatile than stocks of similar foreign firms. A firm's stock return volatility can be higher for … reasons that contribute positively (good volatility) or negatively (bad volatility) to shareholder wealth and economic growth …. We find that the volatility of U.S. firms is higher mostly because of good volatility. Specifically, firm stock …
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From 1991 to 2006, U.S. stocks are more volatile than stocks of similar foreign firms. A firm's stock return volatility … in a country can be higher than the stock return volatility of a similar firm in another country for reasons that … contribute positively (good volatility) or negatively (bad volatility) to shareholder wealth and economic growth. We find that …
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relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, the relation is strong for the most liquid stocks. The … relation has roots in fundamentals as higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility and as firm …
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relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation … has roots in fundamentals. Higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility as well as dispersion and …
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Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...
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Using a large panel of firms across the world from 1991-2006, we show that the median foreign firm has lower idiosyncratic risk than a comparable U.S. firm. Country characteristics help explain variation in the level of idiosyncratic risk, but less so than firm characteristics. Idiosyncratic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906259
relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, the relation is strong for the most liquid stocks. The … relation has roots in fundamentals as higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility and as firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968364
relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across ex-changes, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation … has roots in fundamentals. Higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility as well as dispersion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968929
relation between IR and MR is highly stable through time and is robust across exchanges, firm size, liquidity, and market …-to-book groupings. Though stock liquidity affects the strength of the relation, it is strong for the most liquid stocks. The relation … has roots in fundamentals. Higher market risk predicts greater idiosyncratic earnings volatility as well as dispersion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950299
Since 1965, average idiosyncratic risk (IR) has never been lower than in recent years. In contrast to the high IR in the late 1990s that has drawn considerable attention in the literature, average market-model IR is 44% lower in 2013-2017 than in 1996-2000. Macroeconomic variables help explain...
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