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This paper examines how the size of the rolling window, and the frequency used in moving average (MA) trading strategies, affects financial performance when risk is measured. We use the MA rule for market timing, that is, for when to buy stocks and when to shift to the risk-free rate. The...
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This paper investigates the merits of high-frequency intraday data when forming minimum variance portfolios and minimum tracking error portfolios with daily rebalancing from the individual constituents of the S&P 100 index. We focus on the issue of determining the optimal sampling frequency,...
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models. We show that HF-based predictions yield a significantly lower portfolio volatility than methods employing daily …
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We study whether prices of traded options contain information about future extreme market events. Our option-implied conditional expectation of market loss due to tail events, or tail loss measure, predicts future market returns, magnitude, and probability of the market crashes, beyond and above...
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dynamic factor and a vector autoregressive model and includes stochastic volatility, denoted by FAVAR-SV. Next, a Bayesian … risk features like volatility and largest loss, which indicates that complete densities provide useful information for risk. …
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We investigate the question whether macroeconomic variables contain information about future stock volatility beyond … that contained in past volatility. We show that forecasts of GDP and industrial production growth from the Federal Reserve …'s Survey of Professional Forecasters predict volatility in a cross-section of 49 industry portfolios. The expectation of higher …
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which depending on the market states signaled by the level of volatility spread. We have documented that effectively, there … capital. We then propose the volatility spread as the active management factor into the Carhart's model used to evaluate …
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We inspect the price volatility before, during, and after financial asset bubbles in order to uncover possible … commonalities and check empirically whether volatility might be used as an indicator or an early warning signal of an unsustainable … volatility increase before a crash, but we do not see this as a consistent behavior. We examine forty well-known bubbles and …
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Three concepts: stochastic discount factors, multi-beta pricing and mean-variance efficiency, are at the core of modern empirical asset pricing. This chapter reviews these paradigms and the relations among them, concentrating on conditional asset-pricing models where lagged variables serve as...
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