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Listing of stocks on the stock exchange offers business firms several advantages such as diversification, liquidity, establishing a value for the firm etc. The present paper analyses stocks of six commercial banks (viz., Dubai Commercial Bank, Emirates Bank International, National Bank of Dubai,...
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Using a novel sample of professional asset managers, we document positive incremental alpha on newly purchased stocks that decays over twelve months. While managers are successful forecasters at these short-to-medium horizons, their average holding period is substantially longer (2.2 years)....
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We provide first empirical evidence of the long-term realized performance of alternative beta strategies. Despite diversified risk premia portfolios achieving satisfactory Sharpe ratios of 0.80 – 1.07 over the past decade, we show that up to two thirds of the performance can be explained by...
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Many asset pricing models consider ‘disagreement’ (heterogeneous expectations), while a variety of other asset pricing models focus on ‘tastes’ (preferences beyond risk aversion); yet relatively few asset pricing models simultaneously consider both. The Popularity Asset Pricing Model...
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I provide evidence that investor size matters in the market for short-term securities. Between January 2011 and November 2020, the largest asset management families obtained significantly higher promised returns from their money market securities than smaller families. Furthermore, I show that...
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Three concepts: stochastic discount factors, multi-beta pricing and mean-variance efficiency, are at the core of modern empirical asset pricing. This chapter reviews these paradigms and the relations among them, concentrating on conditional asset-pricing models where lagged variables serve as...
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I study a generalized OLG economy where asymmetrically informed agents have arbitrary investment horizons. As horizons increase, the age-adjusted risk aversion of investors fall, and the risk transfer from forced liquidators into voluntary buyers drops. Two equilibria coexist for long enough...
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We investigate the effects of introducing a central clearing counterparty (CCP) on securities prices by adopting as an experimental construct the 2009 CCP reform in three Nordic markets. We find that, relative to other European economies, these countries experience market-adjusted equity returns...
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We examine the performance of 2,790 private equity (PE) funds incepted during 1979-2008 using Stochastic Discount Factors (SDFs) implied by the two leading consumption-based asset pricing models (CBAPMs) — external habit and long-run risks — as their assumptions appear consistent with...
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We examine how expertise of institutional investors (aka deft investors), based on the product market similarity of their 13F holdings, is related to asset prices. We find that portfolio similarity of investors is associated with returns both at the extensive and intensive margins. A long-short...
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