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Behavioural asset pricing in Chinese stock markets
Xu, Yihan - 2011
This thesis addresses asset pricing in Chinese A-share stock markets using a dataset consisting of all shares listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from January 1997 to December 2007. The empirical work is carried out based on two theoretical foundations: the efficient market...
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Agricultural Arbitrage, Adjustment Costs, and the Intensive Margin
Tack, Jesse B.; LaFrance, Jeffrey T. - 2010
Farmland and capital are an important and rapidly expanding component of the agriculturaleconomy, and empirical evidence suggests that these assets are quasi-fixed in that adjustment costs are incurred when holdings are altered. Increased interest in the rate of return for investing in farmland...
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Essays on financial markets and the macroeconomy
Mönch, Emanuel - 2006
Diese Arbeit besteht aus vier Essays, die empirische und methodische Beiträge zu den Gebieten der Finanzmarktökonomik und der Makroökonomik liefern. Der erste Essay beschäftigt sich mit der Spezifikation der Investoren verfügbaren Informationsmenge in Tests bedingter Kapitalmarktmodelle. Im...
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Can book-to-market and size be risk factors that predict economic growth in Asia's emerging economies?
Clements, Adam; Drew, Michael; Krpan, Ivan; … - 2009
We investigate whether the two 2 zero cost portfolios, SMB and HML, have the ability to predict economic growth for markets investigated in this paper. Our findings show that there are only a limited number of cases when the coefficients are positive and significance is achieved in an even more...
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Conditional Betas, Higher Comoments and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns
Xu, Lei - 2010
size and book-to-market ratio in Chapter 3. This is a cross-sectional test of the conditional CAPM. The models examined …-factor asset pricing models. Models tested are the CAPM, the Fama-French three-factor model and a four-factor model including the … coefficients of coskewness and cokurtosis have the correct sign as predicted by the higher-moment CAPM theory but only cokurtosis …
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Prices as Factors: Approximate Aggregation with Incomplete Markets
Telmer, Chris I; Zin, Stanley E. - 2000
kernel that depends on returns, as in the CAPM or the APT, can accurately price assets. In this sense, theory based on …
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Essays in cross-sectional asset pricing
Cederburg, Scott Hogeland - 2011
asset-pricing anomalies at the firm level. Portfolio-level tests linking CAPM alphas to a large number of firm … against the CAPM is overstated. Anomalies are primarily confined to small stocks, few characteristics are robustly associated … returns. The finance literature has uncovered several potential failings of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). I …
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Case-Based Decision Theory and Financial Markets
Guerdjikova, Ani Vladimirova - 2004
Die Dissertation wendet die fallgestützte Entscheidungstheorie (Case-Based Decision Theory) vorgeschlagen von Gilboa and Schmeidler (1995) auf Entscheidungen in Finanzmärkten an. Betrachtet werden sowohl das individuelle Portfoliowahlproblem eines Investors, wie auch Märkte, in denen...
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Teoria dos jogos e seleção de portfólio: uma proposta de adaptação ao modelo minimax e aplicação ao mercado acionário brasileiro
Farias, Christiano Alves; Vieira, Wilson da Cruz; … - 2004
The objective of this paper was to compare and to analyze three portfolio selection models: Mean-Variance, Minimax and Minimax Weighted. These models were evaluated using historical data (September 1999 to August 2000, January 2001 to December 2001 and February 2002 to January 2003) obtained...
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Interaction of size, book-to-market and momentum effects in Australia
O'Brien, M.; Brailsford, T.; Gaunt, C. - 2010
This study seeks to disentangle the effects of size, book-to-market and momentum on returns. Initial results show that each characteristic has a role in explaining returns, but that there is interaction between size and momentum, as well as between size and book-to-market. Three key findings...
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