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We build an equilibrium model to explain why stock return predictability concentrates in bad times. The key feature is that investors use different forecasting models, and hence assess uncertainty differently. As economic conditions deteriorate, uncertainty rises and investors' opinions...
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this, it is deduced that systematic pricing errors occur in equity markets which hence can not be efficient in the Effcient …One empirical argument that has been around for some time and that clearly contra- dicts equity market efficiency is … investment style indices from an integrated European Equity market, all usual assumptions are dropped. This is achieved by …
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This paper shows that in asset pricing the information environment gives rise to a systematic risk factor when the informativeness of future news events varies with their content (i.e., bad news and good news are not equally informative). The paper further shows that in such cases (cross) serial...
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High-frequency trading has become a dominant force in the U.S. capital market, accounting for over 70% of dollar trading volume. This study examines the implication of high-frequency trading for stock price volatility and price discovery. I find that high-frequency trading is positively...
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Financial crises are typically marked by substantial increases in ambiguity where prices appear to decouple from fundamentals. Consistent with ambiguity-based asset pricing theories, we find that ambiguity concerns are more severe for firms with higher pre-crisis earnings volatility, causing...
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Variation in idiosyncratic return volatility from 1978 to 2009 is attributable to discretionary accrual volatility and the correlation between pre-managed earnings and discretionary accruals reflective of information quality across firms. These results are robust to controls for firm operating...
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This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the … imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial … listing requirements on the various markets. We analyze the IPO techniques: the fixed-price offerings, auctions, book …
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We evaluate the impact of complexity and content of new information on stock return volatility dynamics around 10-K fillings. On average, return volatility increases by 0.4% in the first four weeks after the release of the report, followed by a 2.6% decrease in the subsequent six weeks. This...
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both developed and emerging markets from February 2001 to February 2020. We find that jumps arise in all equity markets …In this paper, we examine whether jumps matter in both equity market returns and integrated volatility. For this …; however, emerging markets have more jumps relative to developed markets, and positive jumps are more frequent than negative …
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arrival for both the firm and aggregate equity markets, and we find evidence supporting this view. Our most convincing … information about aggregate equity markets. We test whether insider purchases at these firms relate to news regarding aggregate … primarily informs equity markets about future market-level cash flows and earnings. We find similar evidence in other settings …
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