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Historical investment performance is most commonly displayed as a charted time series of what are referred to simply as “growth” returns. Unfortunately, charts of such returns have a number of shortcomings that can severely limit their value as a means of providing investors with a...
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We investigate whether analysts' long-term growth (LTG) forecasts are a signal of analyst effort, which is reflected in the long-term profitability of their stock recommendations. We develop a one-year-ahead LTG forecast likelihood score and execute a trading strategy that generates average...
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Fractional trading (FT)—the ability to trade less than a full share—allows low-budget retail investors to trade high-priced stocks. This paper quantifies FT's impact on retail ownership and trading of high-priced stocks by exploiting its sequential introduction at four brokerage firms since...
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Does venture capital (VC) investment yield economic growth? A large literature studies the effect of VC investments on firm-level activity, but its effects on economic growth are less well understood. We identify the effect of VC investment flows on destination county employment, wages, and...
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Prior research finds expected returns decrease in firm-level total asset growth. This study shows that external growth, measured as asset growth raised from capital markets, has stronger power than total asset growth predicting the cross section of average returns. External growth subsumes the...
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High (low) quality stocks generate anomalously high (low) returns above and beyond expected returns based on betas, market sizes, valuations, and momentum. We provide a comprehensive overview of commonly used quality definitions and test their predictive power for stock returns. We show that...
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-optimal portfolio only involves investment in the aforementioned funds. The loss of growth due to estimation error in fund models under … local frequentist estimation is determined entirely by the number of funds. Furthermore, under a general filtering framework … for Bayesian estimation, the loss of growth increases as the investment universe does. A shrinkage method that targets …
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We investigate reference point formation in a social network of multiple investors and study its impact on wealth growth and inequality under a framework of Prospect Theory. The reference point of each individual investor contains both personal and social components. Whereas the personal...
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