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Is real investment fully determined by fundamentals or is it sometimes affected by stock market misvaluation? We … introduce three new tests that: measure the reaction of investment to sales shocks for firms that may be overvalued; use Fama … misvaluation into standard investment equations to estimate the quantitative effect of misvaluation on investment. Overall, the …
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In this paper, we estimate a measure of the flow-through capability of firms listed on the US stock exchange at the sector level. Flow-through capability is defined as a firm's ability to transmit inflation shocks to the prices of its products and services. Thus, we first estimate the...
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We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...
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Using the multivariate regression methodology, we investigate the short-term effect of September 11, 2001 on US defense firms. Our findings suggest that the market differentiated among US defense firms based on the percentage of defense sales to total sales. In addition, the behaviour of the...
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Gandhi and Lustig (2013) find that large banks in the U.S. have significantly lower risk-adjusted returns than small- and medium-sized bank stocks. I am to unable to replicate this finding despite many different empirical choices in my specification. The results suggest that implicit government...
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We study market reactions to seasoned equity issuances that were announced by financial companies between 2002 and 2013. To assess the risk and valuation implications of these seasoned equity issuances, we conduct an event analysis using daily credit default swap (CDS) and stock market pricing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044326
We analyze high frequency trading (HFT) activity in equities during U.S. Treasury permanent open market (POMO) purchases by the Federal Reserve. We construct a model to study HFT quote and trade behavior when private information is released and confirm it empirically. We estimate that HFT firms...
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The relationship between leverage and returns on US bank stocks between 1973 and 2019 is slightly hump-shaped, almost flat. This observed relationship cannot be explained by standard risk factors such as correlation with the market return, book-to-market, size, momentum and term structure of...
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This paper investigates whether there is a banking risk premium that helps explain the returns of US publicly listed firms. We assess this phenomenon in the context of the capital asset pricing model and the Fama and French three-factor model. We use bank size to create the banking factor – a...
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This paper offers evidence that bank managers adjust key strategic variables following a risk and/or valuation signal. Banks receive a risk signal when they have a substantially higher volatility compared to the best performing bank(s) with similar business model characteristics, and a valuation...
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