Since the 1980s, the global banking sector has been characterized by three trends: i) a secular decline in interest rates, ii) a reallocation of bank investments from corporate loans towards mortgages and iii) the rise of shadow banking relative to regulated banking. This paper builds a general...

In this study, we employ the Phillips, Shi and Yu (2015)'s GSADF methodology on the weekly Bitcoin price index from July 2010 to February 2018 to date-stamp twelve statistically significant episodes of speculative bubbles. The shortest episodes are in January 2012 and October 2016, lasting for a...

Recent literature show that leverage has a negative effect on stock returns, which is contradicting with influential finance theories and models. Based on the time-period 1966-2015, the five-factor model and an international dataset, this thesis sets the focus on the question what kind of effect...

We develop a parsimonious econometrics methodology to estimate individual's portfolio return process accounting for self-selection bias from portfolio adjustment; our approach is useful to assist investors learning own return process profile. We study three components to characterize investor's...

This paper examines the appropriate measure of performance for real estate mutual funds. Several popular performance measures including Sharpe, Treynor and Sortino measures are evaluated. The results demonstrate that the Sharpe index outperforms the other two alternatives. In order to consider...

We propose a maximum-expected utility hedging model with futures where cash and futures returns follow a bivariate skew-normal distribution, such to consider the effect of skewness on the optimal futures demand. Relative to the benchmark of bivariate normality, skewness has a material impact...

This study shows that fitting errors of equity-option-implied volatility surfaces are informative about intermediary frictions. For each stock and day, we quantify the goodness of fit between the observed implied volatilities of all available options and the corresponding estimates from...

Objective – The study aims to identify the difference of returns that occur on every trading day, to identify the occurrence of the phenomenon of the Day of the Week Effect; to identify the occurrence of Monday Effect on stock trading in the Indonesian Stock Exchange; and to identify the...

This study examines the effect of bank loan monitoring on public bond contract design. We find that bond yield spreads are lower and that bond issuance amounts are larger when a borrower has recently obtained a private loan, consistent with bond issuers benefiting from the screening and ongoing...

In this paper, we find noticeable relationships between traditional factors, with evidence in favor of the B/M effect and little for the size effect. Using the Fama-Macbeth procedure, we find that the market risk premium is significantly positive, whereas the size factor is significantly...