We propose an adjustment of standard regression-based factor attribution to address a common issue: implementation constraints often mean that investors cannot realize the full potential of a factor strategy, but standard attribution analysis assumes that they can – leaving part of the...

The relationship between risk and expected returns has been investigated extensively in the financial economics literature. Theoretical models generally predict a positive relation between the two. Nevertheless, the empirical findings so far have been inconclusive. Using a generalization of the...

In this paper, we identify long-term prior return patterns in stock returns for Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Korea, and South Africa (BRICKS) markets from January 1993 to February 2008. While Brazil, Russia and South Africa report momentum behavior, India, China and South Korea exhibit...

We model high and low frequency variation in global equity correlations using a sample of 43 countries, including developed and emerging markets during the period 1995-2008. Such variations are characterized by a multifactor asset pricing structure with second-moments dynamics leading to high...

This study models high and low frequency variation in global equity correlations using a comprehensive sample of 43 countries that includes developed and emerging markets, during the period 1995-2008. These two types of variations are modeled following the semi-parametric Factor-Spline-GARCH...

The Chinese version of NASDAQ, ChiNext has gone through three time periods with two different regulation regimes (approval and registration) and three sets of listing day trading restrictions (trading curbs, hard return caps, and no restrictions). We hypothesize that the initial return contains...

This study is an attempt to model the volatility of stock returns in Indian market for the period 1997-2006 using GARCH, TARCH and E-GARCH. Results point out that returns exhibit persistence and volatility clustering in both NSE Nifty and BSE Sensex. Asymmetric volatility effect has been...

Momentum strategies have drawn great attention in investment management literature over last two decades. In this paper we examine three important propositions in Indian context (1) Do momentum profits persist for long time periods?, (2) Can these momentum profits be absorbed by risk models?,...

We investigate if unemployment fluctuations generate predictability in the cross-section of currency excess returns. To assess the predictability exerted by unemployment fluctuations, we sort currencies according to past growth in the unemployment rate. We find that an investment strategy which...

The position of countries in a network of external portfolio investments provides a novel macroeconomic characteristic to explain violations of uncovered interest rate parity. I derive a network centrality measure, where central countries are highly integrated with key suppliers of tradeable...