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This study examines the relation between aggregate volatility risk and the cross-section of stock returns in Australia …
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Recent theory relates expected returns and covariant risk to the investment decisions of a firm. The irreversible nature of physical assets-in-place results in them being riskier than growth options across certain stages of the business cycle. Using the Australian accounting environment, this...
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This paper provides a comprehensive examination of whether portfolios formed on capital asset pricing model anomalies capture information related to changes in the investment opportunity set and therefore may be appropriate candidates as state variables within Merton's (1973) ICAPM framework....
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This paper compares the revenues resulting from the Officer model, which is generally used by Australian regulatory bodies, the simplified Brennan-Lally model, which is used by the New Zealand regulatory body, the Sharpe-Lintner-Mossin model, which is widely used in other regulatory regimes, and...
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portfolio formation adopted in previous empirical studies in Australia and overseas. Three scenarios are constructed to assess … priced in Australia. However, there is a negative relationship between this factor and a return of a stock which is in … contrast with an expectation of the Fama French three-factor model. As such, a claim from a recent study in Australia that for …
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Recently, Fama and French (2014) document a five-factor model that includes the market and factors related to size, book-to-market, profitability and investment outperforms the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993). Using an extensive sample over the period 1982 to 2013, we investigate...
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Recently, Fama and French (2014) propose a five-factor model by adding profitability and investment factors to their three-factor model. This model outperforms the three-factor model previously proposed by Fama and French (1993). Using an extensive sample over the 1982 to 2013 period, we...
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The relation between market risk and asset returns can be modeled with the Security Market Line (SML), a positive linear relation between expected excess asset returns and the asset's beta. Pettengill et al (1995) make the case that tests of beta must be conditioned upon excess market returns to...
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This paper studies the restructuring of financial intermediation in the United States since the 2007-09 financial crisis. We show that the largest U.S. life insurers have entered private debt markets as banks refocused on commercial banking, against a backdrop of unconventional monetary policies...
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This study provides evidence of the significant impacts of unemployment indicators, including the projected unemployment rate and actual unemployment gap, on the cross-sectional stock returns in the Australian market. Utilising the extensive dataset of all listed stocks and unemployment data...
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