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National cultures significantly explain cross-country differences in the relation between asset growth and stock returns. Motivated by the notion that managers in individualistic and low uncertainty-avoiding cultures have a higher tendency to overinvest, this study aims to show that the negative...
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In this paper, we examine whether the creation or redemption ETF shares has a measurable and significant effect on the underlying stocks' returns in the closing auction. Our findings show that ETF flow-related stock transactions significantly affect stock prices. We provide empirical evidence...
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I find evidence of valuable private information in the Chinese stock market. First, Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds outperform passive benchmarks including market, size, value, and momentum factors. Most funds appear to have skill, and much of that skill consists of stock-picking...
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We show that Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds persistently exhibit a preference for growth stocks over value stocks, despite the fact that value stocks outperform growth stocks on average. Moreover, funds with a growth tilt do not under-perform their value-oriented peer funds. To...
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We show that international equity mutual funds underweight equity markets with risky currencies and overweight equity markets with less risky ones. This risk-management practice is an important determinant for allocations among foreign equities and can also help explain levels of home bias for...
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Short sellers are perceived as informed, sophisticated investors. Yet little is known about their actual performance and trading strategies. Using a novel, hand-collected data set of daily position disclosures in Europe, we identify the entry, change, and exit dates of large short-sale positions...
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This study examines the behavior of sovereign bonds to COVID-19 related news in 24 countries most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study applies a continuous Hidden Markov Model (HMM) to analyze the regime shifting behavior of sovereign bonds to the news. The results show that the COVID-19...
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In this paper, we estimate several augmented [Treynor and Mazuy1966] models to examine the performance of hedge fund index returns in four different emerging market regions. In our estimations we match the fund returns with the regional emerging market equity and bond index data, which is a...
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This paper examines how different categories of COVID–19 news sentiment differentially impact the behavior of cryptocurrency returns. A nonlinear technique of transfer entropy is applied to investigate the relationship between the top 30 cryptocurrencies by market capitalization and COVID–19...
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The present study, employing a survivorship-bias free data-set, assesses the performance of Greek domestic equity funds during the period June 2001-December 2009 controlling for the thin trading risk that is inherent in the Greek stock market. Augmenting Carhart's multi benchmark model (1997)...
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