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significant positive returns in India. The returns on the BAB factor dominate the returns on the size, value and momentum factors …
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In this paper, we examine whether jumps matter in both equity market returns and integrated volatility. For this purpose, we use the swap variance (SwV) approach to identify monthly jumps and estimated realized volatility in prices for both developed and emerging markets from February 2001 to...
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We review the international finance literature to assess the extent to which international factors affect financial asset demands and prices. International asset-pricing models with mean-variance investors predict that an asset's risk premium depends on its covariance with the world market...
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). We construct a globalization measure that equals the share of explained variation in direct investment attributable to … global factors. We show that our globalization measure has increased steadily for developing and developed countries. For the … full sample of countries, the globalization measure rose by over ten-fold from 1985 to 1999. Furthermore, in recent years …
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dynamics of financial integration and assesses whether advances in financial integration and globalization yield the beneficial … financial integration and globalization predict higher growth, lower growth volatility, as well as lower probabilities of … integration and globalization. Thus, financial integration and globalization appear to yield direct as well as indirect benefits …
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Using several multi-factor models, I find strong "betting against beta'' effects - flat relations between betas and expected returns - for most non-market factors in US and international stock markets. "Arbitrage portfolios'' designed to profit from these effects earn average returns similar to...
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With the intention of maximizing an investor's terminal utility, we construct a non-threshold ased trading model within which the optimal trading weights for daily rebalancing are derived analytically via stochastic optimal control. Having released the constraint that the cointegrating vector is...
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Buying profitable, undervalued stocks and shorting unprofitable, overvalued stocks yields significant return differentials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Asia. Using data from 1991-2016, we test Greenblatt's (2006) “Magic Formula” (MF) and find that a modified MF which uses gross...
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We show that log-dividends (d) and log-prices (p) are cointegrated, but, instead of de facto assuming the stationarity of the classical log dividend–price ratio, we allow the data to reveal the cointegration vector between d and p. We define the modified dividend–price ratio (mdp), as the...
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This paper examines the patterns of intraday cojumps between international equity markets as well as their impact on international asset holdings and portfolio diversification benefits. Using intraday index-based data for exchange-traded funds as proxies for international equity markets, we...
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