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This paper studies the intertemporal relation between U.S. volatility risk and international equity risk premia. We … show that a common volatility risk factor constructed from the option-implied U.S. forward variances positively and … robust to the inclusion of existing domestic and U.S. predictors and alternative U.S. volatility risk proxies. The …
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We examine the pricing of tail risk in international stock markets. We find that the tail risk of different countries … mainly driven by global tail risk rather than local tail risk. World fear is also priced in the crosssection of stock returns …
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I find that short interest significantly and negatively predicts aggregate stock returns in 24 out of 32 countries examined. This predictability survives out-of-sample tests, persists outside recessions, and is not subsumed by other well-known return predictors. The results indicate that short...
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momentum prediction has been proved, the predictors can be applied to momentum risk management. I introduce two new momentum … been used before. I then introduce a new method of momentum risk management that has a lower transaction cost than existing …
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Using a news-based gauge of geopolitical risk, we study its role for asset pricing in global emerging markets. We find … that changes in risk positively predict future stock returns. The countries with the highest increase in geopolitical …
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This thesis investigates value and momentum effects in the U.S. market after the recent financial crisis as well as for other periods. Many researchers contend that market anomalies exist in the two popular forms, value and momentum effects, and have studied where abnormal profits arise. Not...
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Despite momentum's strong historical performance, its returns have large negative skewness and occasionally experiences persistent strings of sharp negative returns, referred as "momentum crashes" in the recent literature. I argue that momentum crashes are due to crowded trades which push prices...
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This paper examines the effect of product market threats on firms' stock crash risk. Competitive pressure from the …
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Index) and individual stock price crash risk. We examine the stock price behavior of 35 countries' listed firms from 2004 to …
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Political risk, one of the most significant uncertainty shocks, affects firms' future attitudes toward risks and plays … a crucial role in their decision making. A stock price crash risk is a classical topic in financial markets; therefore …, this paper probes the relationship between firm-level political risk and stock price crash risk based on a sample of …
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