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We introduce a new class of momentum strategies, the risk-adjusted time series momentum (RAMOM) strategies, which are … how these volatility measures can be used for risk management. We find that momentum risk management significantly … increases Sharpe ratios, but at the same time may lead to more pronounced negative skewness and tail risk. Furthermore, momentum …
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Recent research suggests that, public perceptions notwithstanding, members of Congress are rather mediocre investors. Why do the consummate political insiders fail to profit as investors? We consider various explanations that pertain to members' political relationships to public firms. We show...
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investment community towards low volatility stocks. This pursuit of low risk investments has drawn attention of the investor … term, low risk investment in portfolio construction without loss in returns. The study also contributes to the increasing … identifying low volatility investment sectors in Indian market. Using data from the S&P CNX Nifty Index and the CNX Infrastructure …
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Tobin's q and the investment-capital ratio to be countercyclical. We also nd that the heterogeneity in risk aversion and …We present a production-based model in which agents have heterogeneous risk aversion and heterogeneous discount rates …. When the less risk-averse agent is more impatient, the two types of agents can coexist for a long time. The heterogeneity …
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We examine how different investment horizons, and consequently the number of hands through which a security passes …-horizon investors; (ii) for a given maturity of security, price deviations increase as investment horizons shrink (and frequency of … transfers increases); and (iii) short investment horizons create upward pressure on prices when liquidity is high and downward …
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We study the use of firms' book-to-market ratios (B/M) in value investing and its implications for comovements in firms’ stock returns and trading volumes. We show B/M has become increasingly detached from common alternative valuation ratios over time while also becoming worse at forecasting...
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This study investigates the impact of flows between bond and equity funds on investment factors over the period 1984 … the investment factor. The statistical reversal relationship between previous flows and the investment factor is … economically significant. A one-standard-deviation shock to flows causes a 0.29% decrease in investment factor returns, which are …
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The current study investigates the impact of substantial economic fluctuations on household portfolios and analyzes how the fluctuations influence households' propensities to meet the capital accumulation ratio threshold of 25%. The 1992 to 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances datasets were analyzed...
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's incentives to tell the truth depend on the interaction between her investment horizon and the information acquisition decisions … of message-receiving investors. The model's key prediction is that short investment horizons can facilitate credible …
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capitalization, exploration investment and discoveries. To explain and quantify these four effects, we use an analytical model of … investment in exploration capital with intertemporal adjustment costs, depletion of reserves and market capitalization, and … for as long as possible. We also pay attention to how the legislative "risk" of tipping into policy action affects the …
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