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momentum strategy. The Japanese case illustrates the necessity of considering structural instability related to the …
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momentum risk factor (as existing work has suggested), but also the widely-used U.S. size and value risk factors. We then build … novel pan-European and country-specific momentum, size, and value risk factors. By comparing our pan-European market returns …
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Momentum, size, and low volatility in emerging markets regularly exhibit increased correlations across factors and …
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returns results in elevated momentum profits. We show that such strategies enhance momentum profits simply by trading in … stocks with more extreme past returns. Adjusted for this effect, elevated momentum profits resulting from characteristics … (size, R², turnover, age, analyst coverage, analyst forecast dispersion, market-to-book, price, illiquidity, credit rating …
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Proponents of the efficient markets hypothesis would claim that investors correctly and timely incorporate new information into asset prices. Bayesian rationality is assumed to be a good description of investor behavior (Fama (1965, 1970)). However, the quality of information disclosure differs...
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Efficient markets models assert that the price of each asset is equal to the optimal forecast of its ex-post or fundamental value. These models do not imply, however, that the covariance between two asset prices is given by the covariance between the ex-post values they respectively forecast:...
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Many recent papers have investigated the role played by volatility in determining the cross-section of currency returns. This paper employs two time-varying factor models: a threshold model and a Markov-switching model to price the excess returns from the currency carry trade. We show that the...
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Models based on factors such as size, value, or momentum are ubiquitous in asset pricing. Therefore, portfolio …
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Three concepts: stochastic discount factors, multi-beta pricing and mean-variance efficiency, are at the core of modern empirical asset pricing. This chapter reviews these paradigms and the relations among them, concentrating on conditional asset-pricing models where lagged variables serve as...
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extremely rapid execution of trades might seem to be a standard based on media reports. Our findings on intraday momentum of …
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