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direct information flow across investors. Our market setting has the virtue of extreme simplicity including atomistic … investors, continuous trading, and a diversified asset market. Regarding direct information epidemics, previous predictions of … an "S" curve in prices and non-monotonicity in returns are shown to depend on details of the information event exogenous …
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corporate disclosures, nor by subsequent earnings information, and is concentrated among firms with high fi nancial constraints …
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This study examines empirically the Fama and French three factor model of stock returns using Indonesian data over 2003-2006 period. Specifically, it examines the behavior of stock prices, in relation to size (market equity, ME) and book-to-market ratio. The major objective of this study is to...
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private information. This suggests that economists' inability to explain asset price movements is the result of either noise …
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Prior research has documented the role of information uncertainty in the cross-sectional variation in stock returns …. Miller (1977) hypothesizes that if information uncertainty is caused by differences of opinion, prices will reflect only the …, Merton (1974) asserts that default risk is a function of the uncertainty in the asset value process. Information uncertainty …
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In this paper we propose exact likelihood-based mean-variance efficiency tests of the market portfolio in the context of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), allowing for a wide class of error distributions which include normality as a special case. These tests are developed in the framework of...
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This paper analyzes the effect of environmental regulation on stock returns (as a measure of economic performance) for German energy corporations. By using event study methodology, we consider the last minute victory of the acting government in the 2002 German federal elections to the Lower...
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The most relevant practical impediment to an application of the Markowitz portfolio selection approach is the problem of estimating return moments, in particular return expectations. We analyze the consequences of using return estimates implied by analysts' dividend forecasts under the explicit...
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This paper is an empirical investigation into the role of credit history in determining the spread on sovereign bank loans. It employs an error-in-variables approach used in rational-expectations-macro-econometrics to set up a structural model that links sovereign loan spreads to realized...
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We investigate expectation formation in a controlled experimental en-vironment. Subjects are asked to predict the price in a standard asset pricingmodel. They do not have knowledge of the underlying market equilibrium equa-tions, but they know all past realized prices and their own predictions....
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