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The quest for parsimonious models has been a key objective in asset pricing. However, there appears to be no consensus on the most successful asset pricing strategy in the literature, especially for the South African Market. Using financial statements from January 2000 to December 2015, this...
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contributes to post earnings announcement drift (PEAD) and price momentum. Indeed, when we double-sort by momentum portfolios and … retail trading flows, PEAD and momentum are only present in the top two quintiles of retail trading intensity. Finer sorts … substantial role of retail investors in generating momentum. Alternative hypotheses, such as the disposition effect and stale …
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This paper shows that low-risk stocks significantly outperform high-risk stocks in the local China A-share market. The main driver of this low-risk anomaly is volatility, and not beta. A Fama–French style VOL factor is not explained by the Fama–French–Carhart factors, and has the strongest...
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This study aims to examine whether there is any evidence of momentum in Moroccan industries and whether these momentum … showed that there is ample evidence and statistically significant momentum returns in Moroccan industries. The sub …-sample findings support the evidence of momentum. This study also shows that momentum returns in the Moroccan industry are not …
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in which I regress momentum on activity load. I find that increases in the activity load from acquisitions, on average …, reduce a firm's likelihood to maintain acquisition momentum. That is, the increase in acquisition activity created by … overall momentum. Yet, I obtain ambiguous results when examining heterogeneity in acquirer responses arising from differences …
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reports of the 'death of beta' from the mainstream finance literature, (iii) the capital markets' one-year momentum measure …
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We propose several multivariate variance ratio statistics. We derive the asymptotic distribution of the statistics and scalar functions thereof under the null hypothesis that returns are unpredictable after a constant mean adjustment (i.e., under the Efficient Market Hypothesis). We do not...
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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 strategy. The Japanese case illustrates the necessity of considering structural instability related to the …
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This paper examines price overreactions in the case of the following cryptocurrencies: BitCoin, LiteCoin, Ripple and Dash. A number of parametric (t-test, ANOVA, regression analysis with dummy variables) and non-parametric (Mann–Whitney U test) tests confirm the presence of price patterns...
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