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This study investigates how returns on the S&P 500 (SP) dynamically respond to the aggregate corporate profit growth … (CP) shock. The results from running the VAR model using quarterly data from 1951Q4 to 2012Q4 shows that returns on the SP … significantly and positively respond to the CP shock instantly in the first quarter and retreat back to the zero territory …
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A common prediction of macroeconomic models of credit market frictions is that the tightness of financial constraints is countercyclical. As a result, theory implies a negative collateralizability premium; that is, capital that can be used as collateral to relax financial constraints provides...
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corporate profit growth (CP) shock. Using the VAR model to analyze quarterly data from 1951Q4 to 2012Q4, the results show that … both DY and PE significantly drop immediately following the shock to the CP. The Granger-causality Wald tests show that CP …
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This paper examines stock liquidity in explaining the mixed relations between financial constraints and stock returns and the pricing of stock liquidity across financially constrained and unconstrained firms. We find a negative relation in liquid portfolios and a positive relation in illiquid...
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Through the interaction between financial constraints and R&D, I study two asset pricing puzzles: mixed evidence on the financial constraints-return relation and the positive R&D-return relation. Unlike capital investment, R&D is more inflexible. A financially constrained R&D-intensive rm is...
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This paper examines the funding liquidity faced by hedge funds and the resulting implication for stocks' excess return co-movement. We find that hedge fund ownership tends to induce a higher stocks' return co-movement with each other, compared to other institutional investors like mutual funds...
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This paper examines the effect of investor-level real-world investment constraints, including several which had not been studied before, on hedge fund performance and its persistence. Using a large consolidated database, we demonstrate that hedge fund performance persistence is significantly...
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Using 1990 through 2013 data of U.S. firms with foreign operations, we show that (1) the serial correlation of analyst forecast errors increases to the degree that firms diversify internationally, (2) post-earnings-announcement drift (PEAD) based on analyst forecast errors increases to the...
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We develop a firm valuation model with repeated expansion and contraction options to show operating profitability is a proxy for time-varying systematic risk. Relative to riskier assets, the proportionate value of contraction options increase as profitability falls, lowering the firm beta....
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We explain stock mispricing linked to long-term expectations of earnings growth in terms of managerial manipulation in high-growth conglomerates. Manipulation does not affect analysts’ forecasts of conglomerate earnings, which are more accurate relative to pseudo-conglomerates. The combined...
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