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In this paper we investigate sources and characteristics of value, size and momentum profits on the Polish stock market. The research aims to broaden the academic knowledge in a few ways. First, we deliver fresh out-of-sample evidence on value, momentum, and size premiums. Second, we analyzemthe...
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We find a negative relationship between the individual stocks' semivariance premia, defined as the difference between the risk-neutral and physical expected downside semivariances, and future stock returns. The high-minus-low hedge portfolio earns the excess return of -64 (-46) basis points per...
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We develop a four-factor model intended to capture size, value, and credit rating transition patterns in excess returns for a panel of predominantly mid- and large-cap entities. Using credit transition matrices and rating histories from 48 US issuers, we provide evidence to support a...
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A growing body of literature analyses the impact of news on companies' equity prices. We add to this literature by showing that the transmission channel of news to prices differs across sectors. First, we disentangle sectoral equity prices into components of expected future earnings and equity...
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Bond skewness and coskewness (i.e., bond return comovement with market volatility) are both time varying, with cross-sectional variation driven by maturity and credit rating. Other things being equal, longer maturity bonds have lower skewness, and lower coskewness with respect to the bond market...
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We examine the pricing performance of various measures of dealer risk appetite. We construct a novel measure of risk appetite that captures the provision of leverage to the clients of broker-dealer firms. We also construct a factor mimicking portfolio that tracks shocks to the leverage of...
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This paper studies the long-run risk embedded in the news about future investment-specific technology (IST). The IST news shock, which reflects future technological improvements in the production of investment goods such as computers, machines, and equipment, causes persistent future consumption...
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We uncover significant asymmetric effects of realized jump risks on conditional equity premium. Negative or ``bad'' (positive or ``good'') jumps predict a rising (falling) near-term equity premium. The signed jump risk measures remain statistically significant even when we control for the...
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What is the cross-sectional relationship between financial leverage and expected equity returns? How is the empirical relationship associated with firm's financial decisions? This paper investigates the potential explanations for the flatness relation between financial leverage and expected...
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We decompose the quadratic payoff on a stock into its loss and gain components and measure the premia associated with their fluctuations, called the loss and gain quadratic risk premium (QRP) respectively. The loss QRP interprets as the premium paid for downside risk hedging, while the gain QRP...
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