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This study addresses the question whether the Feri Trust Rating, the Finanztest-Bewertung and the FondsNote are able to predict the future performance of German equity mutual funds. Moreover, this study analyzes whether predictability is improved significantly when combining the three fund...
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The on-going debate over whether fund managers have skills and whether those skills are short-lived is still inconclusive. Using the performance measure that can't be manipulated with respect to the underlying distribution, time variation, nor estimation error, (the manipulation-proof...
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For the DAX index market, this paper analyses the development of return differences between exchange traded funds (ETFs) and the DAX index from the perspective of long-term investors. The newly introduced methodology provides the opportunity to continuously identify long-term costs of passively...
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those entered on weekdays. Implied returns are not consistently related to the weather conditions on the day the forecast …
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We show analytically under quite general conditions that implied rates of return based on analysts' earnings forecasts are only a downward biased estimator for future expected one-period returns and therefore not suited for computing market risk premia. The extent of this bias is substantial as...
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This study tests the performance of stock market forecasts derived from technical analysis by means of a specific indicator. The indicator is computed from E/P ratios and bond yields. Several stock markets are studied over a 20-year period. Two test statistics are introduced to utilize the...
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This paper tests the performance of stock market forecasts derived from technical analysis by means of a specific indicator. The indicator is computed from E/P ratios and bond yields. Several stock markets are studied over a 20-year period. Two test statistics are introduced to utilize the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013004301
In this study we verify if payment of dividends increases the earnings informativeness of firms listed on the São Paulo Stock Exchange (BOVESPA). The study is based on the paper of Francis, Schipper and Vincent (2005), and adds an interaction variable between earnings and dividends in order to...
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Several recent empirical papers assert that the decision to disclose an earnings forecast shortly before the actual … dynamic model of voluntary disclosure, we show that the decision to disclose a short-term earnings forecast reveals managers … decision to disclose a short-term earnings forecast predicts earnings three years beyond the forecasted period, and that the …
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