The Market Timing - Buy and Hold (MT-BH) is introduced, tested against widely accepted performance models of market timing and tested if implamentation is possible. The MT-BH metric measures the condition of engaging in market timing strategies relative to buy and hold investing across an equity...

This study examines the systematic risk present in major crops for the United States andthree corn-belt states. An index of commodities is used in conjunction with cash receiptsto generate dynamic estimates of the systematic risk for each crop and state. In our study,we find that beta estimates...

This paper examines the relationship between beta risk and realized stockindex return in the presence of oil and exchange rate sensitivities for fifteen countriesin the Asia-Pacific region using the international factor model. Thirteen of the 15countries have the expected beta signs and show...

This thesis is a collection of three essays in empirical studies on derivatives. In the first chapter, I investigate whether credit default swap spreads are affected by how the total risk is decomposed into the systematic risk and the idiosyncratic risk for a given level of the total risk. The...

Financial crisis year of 2008 that affected housing credit securities product (subprime mortgage securities) and the bankruptcy of several big companies at United States of America finally impacted to Indonesia.s economics, one of them was banking industrial sector. Banking industrial sector...

We investigate the impact of five recent terrorist attacks on equities listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. Following the Global Industry Classification Standard, we analyse how these events affect the different sectors in Australia. Using parametric and non-parametric tests, we investigate...

Abstract Since the Great Depression and the stock market crash in 1929, the global economy has experienced immersive development. This paper will analyze the effects of the involvement of governments in rescuing failing banks through different methodological tools. The purpose of this research...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the role of macroeconomic variables of Bank Indonesia Certificate (SBI) and Exchange Rate on systematic risk (BETA) in the banking sector. This type of research is quantitative research and based on the level of explanation. Data analysis method used is...

Asset allocation is the most influential factor driving investment performance. While researchers have made substantial progress in the field of asset allocation since the introduction of mean-variance framework by Markowitz, there is little agreement about appropriate portfolio choice for...

Taxes are an important component of investing that is commonly overlooked in both the literature and in practice. For example, many understand that taxes will reduce an investment’s return, but less understood is the risk-sharing nature of taxes that also reduces the investment’s risk. This...