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or even flip sign depending on an asset's preexisting liquidity. These effects are stronger for ETFs that explicitly …
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We consider a model where investors can invest directly or search for an asset manager, information about assets is costly, and managers charge an endogenous fee. The efficiency of asset prices is linked to the efficiency of the asset management market: if investors can find managers more...
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The past several years have witnessed the introduction of hundreds of so-called “smart beta” equity indices. These indices provide exposure to risk factors, such as value or low volatility, in order to seek excess return and/or risk reduction compared to cap-weighted indices. Although the...
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We argue that the Jacobsen and Visaltanachoti (2009) study is incomplete. Jacobsen and Visaltanachoti (2009) evaluate the Halloween effect or ‘Sell in May'-effect as documented by Bouman and Jacobsen (2002), and extend the analysis into the relative performances of sectors during the winter...
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Do equity prices efficiently reflect fundamental information as the Efficient Markets Hypothesis suggests? The author challenges a widely held acceptance by financial academicians of the EMH. In a frictionless environment, information acquisition and trading would be costless, transaction prices...
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Theory has linked price momentum with price reversals (Barberis, Shleifer, and Vishny (1998), Daniel, Hirshleifer, and Subrahmanyam (1998), and Hong and Stein (1999)). The models generally rely on behavioral descriptions of irrational investors who push prices beyond their fundamental value thus...
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We explore the link between stock returns and changes in market capital concentration across firms. Our theory uncovers a concentration risk factor driven by time-varying changes in the distribution of market capital. A powerful implication of our theory is the necessary existence of this...
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I assess time-series return predictability using a weighted least squares estimator that is around 25% more efficient than ordinary least squares (OLS) because it incorporates time-varying volatility into its point estimates. Traditional predictors, such as the dividend yield, perform better in-...
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This paper attempts to capture the relationship between stock market movements and its endogenous liquidity measures … resiliency dimensions of market liquidity using suitable liquidity measures (proxies). Findings suggest that multidimensional … liquidity measures like the volume of trade, spread, market efficiency coefficient, turnover rate, trading probability, and the …
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improvements attributable to increases in liquidity provision on markets other than the NYSE. These results cannot be attributed to …
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