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The stock market is widely viewed as being more volatile these days. This paper examines that perception using data from the past 40 years. It finds surprising consistency across years in the number of days the market closes up and down. In an average year the market closes down 47% of all...
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volatility models used for the analysis revealed that Turkish stock market is sensitive to terrorist attacks. …
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countries, and thirdly the existing gap appearance between the theory and the practice of the financial administration, from the … contrast ofthe theory proposed by different experts and with the results obtained of the researches with microbusinessmen of … théorie et la pratique de l´administration financière à partir du contraste de la théorie proposé pour de différents auteurs …
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We measure the commonality in hedge fund returns, identify its main driving factor and analyze its implications for financial stability. We find that hedge funds’ commonality increased significantly from 2003 until 2006. We attribute this rise mainly to the increase in hedge funds’ exposure...
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This paper shows how to introduce liquidity into the well known mean-variance framework of portfolio selection. Either … by estimating mean-variance liquidity constrained frontiers or directly estimating optimal portfolios for alternative … levels of risk aversion and preference for liquidity, we obtain strong effects of liquidity on optimal portfolio selection …
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constructed ‘low minus high’ (LMH) stock turnover portfolio as a liquidity risk factor. The LMH factor produces significant betas …
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We compute the optimal investment-consumption policy for an agent that is able to invest upon two non-risky assets, one liquid and the other illiquid -which means that transaction costs have to be paid when he buys or sells this last asset. An equilibrium model then gives us a way to compute the...
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This paper examines the extent to which individual investors provide liquidity to the stock market, and whether they … predict short-term future returns is significantly enhanced during times of market stress, when market liquidity provisions … uncertainty. Despite this high aggregate performance, individual investors do not reap the rewards from liquidity provision …
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We propose a novel approach to cross-sectional equities sample selection, derived from best market practice in index construction and focused on investability. Using the U.K. market as a template, we first demonstrate how the popular Datastream dataset is plagued by data deficiencies that would...
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We analyse high-frequency data by means of the duration between successive ticks and volume of capital durations. It allows to introduce trading activity and coactivity measures, which may or may not also be volume weighted. Some applications on particular stocks of the PAris Bourse are provided.
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