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construction and focused on investability. Using the U.K. market as a template, we first demonstrate how the popular Datastream … commonly used filters. We show the benefits and need for a supplementary data source. We then develop robust investability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109053
construction and focused on investability. Using the UK market as a template, we first demonstrate how the popular Datastream … commonly used filters. We show the benefits and need for a supplementary data source. We then develop robust investability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840474
We study the behavior and interaction of systematic and idiosyncratic components of risk in a cross-section of U.K. stocks. We find no clear evidence of a trend in any component of total risk, but we document different “regimes” in the behavior of each component of total risk, in their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261127
During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855710
There is no consensus in the literature as to which model should be used to estimate the stock returns and the cost of capital in the emerging markets. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) that is most often used for this purpose in the developed markets has a poor empirical record and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086627
Asset prices have been found to respond to unpredicted changes in macroeconomic variables in a number of studies. This paper focuses on the relationship between economic factors and the stock market for a small open economy, namely Canada. Exchange risk is observed to have a significant impact...
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There is no consensus in the literature as to which model should be used to estimate stock returns and the cost of capital in the emerging markets. The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which is most often used for this purpose in the developed markets, has a poor empirical record and is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147423
During the global financial crisis, stressed market conditions led to skyrocketing corporate bond spreads that could not be explained by conventional modeling approaches. This paper builds on this observation and sheds light on time-variations in the relationship between systematic risk factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855295
We use a unique dataset reporting the trading of an institutional asset manager implementing trend following strategies to estimate the associated transaction costs. With information both at the trade and the fund levels, we disentangle the impact of the execution quality from the management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843548
previous three to 12 months and sell stocks with low returns over the same period) and turnover (number of shares traded … more profitable among high-turnover stocks. In contrast to US evidence, this result is driven mainly by winners: high-turnover … winners have higher returns than low-turnover winners. We present various robustness checks, long-horizon results, evidence on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136650