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It is a universally accepted principle that risk and return of investing are commensurate. However, people give more importance to return and risk takes a back seat. This study is an attempt to understand the perceptions of 120 investors in Gandhinagar region towards risk and return of investing...
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We investigate the effect of economic crises on the direction of information flow and price discovery efficiency of spot and futures market by considering the near month Nifty50 index futures and its corresponding spot index. The period of study commences from January, 2004 to December, 2015 and...
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A conjecture in the literature holds that a large and diversified investor base leads to lower volatility by improving the quality of the price signal. In this paper this hypothesis is examined using unique Swedish ownership data. The data does not support the conjecture. Instead, volatility...
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We analyze the stock market return predictability for three different periods. We evaluate the conditional variance (CV) and the variance risk premium (VRP) as predictors of stock market returns for which we are using well-established versions of the heterogeneous auto-regressive (HAR) model and...
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We find that the demand for stock option positions that increase exposure to the underlying is positively related to measures of investor sentiment and past market returns, while the demand for index options is invariant to these factors. These differences in trading patterns are reflected in...
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sensitivity of China's stock market is very high as a whole (Weigert, 2016), different individual stocks show varying degrees of … in crash sensitivity in China's stock market, and finds that: First, institutional investors' shareholdings is positively … sensitivity in China. Our empirical results enrich research on stock price crash sensitivity and the heterogeneity of …
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