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, growth of total assets, and operating profitability, each separately created for a given geographical region of the world. As …
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We exploit the merger between BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in expected ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of funds and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that funds with open-end structures and a large exposure to commonly-held...
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In this study, we examine how idiosyncratic risk is correlated with a wide array of anomalies, including asset growth, book-to-market, investment-to-assets, momentum, net stock issues, size, and total accruals, in international equity markets. We use zero-cost trading strategy and multifactor...
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In this paper, we examine size, value, and momentum patterns in the stock returns of four emerging market regions - Latin America, EMEA, Asia, and BRIC. We document a strong and highly significant value effect, and a strong but less significant momentum effect. Substantial value and momentum...
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To confront the challenge that disaster risk is “dark matter” in finance, we construct an objective measure of disaster risk, which is able to predict half of GDP crashes in a sample of 20 advanced economies between 1870 and 2021. Despite this significant predictability, we find no...
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CAPM that prices international stock returns via their exposures to multi-period consumption growth in world consumption … performs considerably better in explaining the international cross-section of returns than the canonical consumption CAPM. By … virtue of the long-run data set, we are also able to relate the importance of world consumption risk for the cross-section of …
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This paper uses time-varying second moments to investigate exchange rate exposure betas. Using a BEKK-GARCH(1,21)-M model, time-varying exchange rate exposure betas are obtained with explicit focus on the non-orthogonality between exchange rate changes and market returns. We look into certain...
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, changes in global news sentiment have a larger impact on equity returns around the world, which does not reverse in the short …
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Investors often focus their attention on recent information only, underestimating the rele-vance of information from the distant past. In consequence, the ordering of historical re-turns robustly predicts future stock performance in the cross-section. Using data from 49 countries, we...
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The relationship between risk and expected returns has been investigated extensively in the financial economics literature. Theoretical models generally predict a positive relation between the two. Nevertheless, the empirical findings so far have been inconclusive. Using a generalization of the...
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