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pricing models, we have shown that financial economic problems can be solved using analytic methods. Analytic methods allow …'s (1999) asset pricing model with a $260^{th}$ order Taylor polynomial in less than ten seconds. In this case the error is … of allocation between stocks and bonds is mathematically more complex than the asset pricing problems, we have been able …
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We formally compare two versions of the market Variance Risk Premium (VRP) measured in the equity and option markets … option prices …
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This paper investigates the presence of time-series and cross-sectional momentum profits and the relationship between these two types of profits in the Saudi Arabia stock market. Results confirm that time-series momentum and cross-sectional contrarian profits are present in this market. The...
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The paper shows that issuing activity does not result in superior liquidity. Even the kinds of new issues that are supposed to be more liquid than others (IPOs backed by venture capital, new issues with high-prestige underwriters, severely underpriced IPOs) are just as liquid as their peer...
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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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Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative … implications of the theory. Time variation in asset ivol causes time variation in the option value of equity that translates into …
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We present effective momentum strategies over the liquid equity futures market in India. We evaluate and determine the persistence of the returns at various look-backs ranging from quarterly and weekly to more granular look-backs. We look at a universe of the liquid equity instruments traded...
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This study empirically investigates the effects of options trading on future stock returns. Leveraging the Shanghai Stock Exchange 50 exchange-traded fund (50ETF) options trading data in China, we show that put-call ratios, skewness ratios, and China's Volatility Index exhibit economically and...
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We derive a model-free expression of the serial dependence coefficients of the stock market returnin terms of the prices of available index options, VIX futures, and VIX options. As a result,we obtain real-time market autocorrelation and regression coefficients between market returnsover two...
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This article implements the minimum variance frontier for the stochastic discount factor, according to both Hansen and Jagannathan (1991) and Cochrane and Hansen (1992), for the Brazilian stock market. Two approaches are considered in terms of equity returns and equity premium, respectively, the...
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