This paper examines the profitability of merger arbitrage strategies in China. Additionally, it examines the presence of insider trading in the target company, prior to the announcement of the Mamp;A offer, in the Chinese stock market. Using a sample of 22 tender offer bids (from January 2002 to...

A trillion-dollar industry is based on investing in or benchmarking to capitalization-weighted indexes, even though the finance literature rejects the mean-variance efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of...

Unlike standard factors, such as value, momentum, and size, quality lacks a commonly accepted definition. Practitioners, however, are increasingly gravitating to the style, defining quality as multi-signal for which some of the signals have been thoroughly explored in academic literature and...

We apply well-studied factor strategies from the U.S. equity anomalies literature to Chinese A-shares, demonstrating which factors have worked and which have not over the last two decades since the opening of China's stock markets. We find while a number of traditional factors like value and...

We model a continuous time one factor economy where stock prices are noisy proxies of the informationally efficient stock values. The pricing error process is modeled as a mean-reverting process, which gives us a well-defined notion of over-pricing (positive pricing error) and under-pricing...

In this paper, we show that under a fairly innocuous assumption on price inefficiency, market capitalization-weighted portfolios are sub-optimal. If market prices are more volatile than is warranted by changes in firm fundamentals, then cap-weighted portfolios do not capture the full premium...

Both investor contributions and investment returns determine retirement plan outcomes, but they have distinctive effects over the investor's lifecycle. Focusing on target-date funds (TDFs) in 401(k) plans, our research demonstrates that in the early stage, contributions are the primary...

Covered call buy-write strategies have risk-return profiles that are similar to those of low volatility equity portfolios, and both approaches appear to extract return premium from investors with leverage constraints and a preference for lottery-like bets. We analyzed simulated long-term...

Value stocks outperform growth stocks. The academic literature provides two competing interpretations on what drives the value premium: exposure to risk factors or mispricing of securities. Existing empirical studies, which are largely based on U.S. data, have not conclusively rejected one...

The assumption that asset prices are determined by the efforts of end investors to maximize inter-temporal utility supports a pricing theory that is both elegant and intuitive. Unfortunately, the assumption is counterfactual. End investors, with few exceptions, lack the capacity to behave in a...