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After the Lehman-Brothers collapse, the stock index has exceeded its pre-Lehman-Brothers peak by 36% in real terms. Seemingly, markets have been demanding more stocks instead of bonds. Yet, instead of observing higher bond rates, paradoxically, bond rates have been persistently negative after...
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We conduct a comprehensive asset pricing analysis for the U.S. property/liability insurance industry using monthly data from 1988 to 2015. We find that state-of-the-art models such as the Fama and French (2015) five-factor model cannot explain the returns of property/liability insurance stocks...
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, Roll and Ross (1986) for the U.S. stock market, their model is not successful when describing a risk-return relation of …, two risk factors in that version of the model were statistically significant: default premium, measured as risk premium …
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We examine the effects of estimation risk and Bayesian learning on equilibrium asset prices when there is uncertainty … generates a sizable average annual equity premium, relatively low average risk-free rate and a high mean Sharpe ratio that … approximates the data average with (1) low risk aversion, (2) non-persistent (i.i.d.) growth rates, (3) power utility, (4) diffuse …
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underlying stock (asset) is subject to discontinuous market regime type of shifts in its mean or volatility whose risk can be … risk are priced in option markets. The results of the paper clearly indicate that stock market regime shifts constitute … significant sources of risk which are priced in option markets. Ignoring these sources of risks will lead to significant option …
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We conduct an empirical study of risk-return trade-off in fourteen Pacific basin equity markets using several … findings imply that the BiN-GARCH model, which allows for time-variation in the conditional skewness and market price of risk …, captures the expected positive risk-return relationship in eleven out of fourteen markets studied. In comparison, symmetric …
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The idiosyncratic volatility anomaly, as first documented in Ang, Hodrick, Xing, and Zhang (2006), has received considerable attention in the literature. In this paper, we examine the pervasiveness of the anomaly in various stock samples and provide evidence towards distinguishing potential...
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decile generate 6% more annualized risk-adjusted return compared to stocks in the highest uncertainty beta decile. We find …
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the pricing of common equity risk factors …
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The relationship between risk and expected returns has been investigated extensively in the financial economics … with time-varying asymmetry, linked to the upside and downside uncertainty, the risk-return puzzle is investigated across … skewness on the total price of risk. That is, in the absence of skewness the relationship between risk and return is positive …
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