The Present Value Model (PVM) – in which current security prices depend upon the present value of future discounted dividends, where the discount rate is equivalent to the required rate of return – is one of the long-standing principles of Finance Theory. The objective of this work is to...

This paper applies two statistical arbitrage algorithms on the U.S. equities market, using daily historical prices from January 2005 to March 2012. The algorithms construct portfolios using two different frameworks, namely, the Vasicek model and co-integration approach, with a Markov...

This working paper was written by Yin-wong Cheung (University of California, Santa Cruz).We construct an empirical model for daily highs and daily lows of US stock indexes based on the intuition that highs and lows do not drift apart over time. Our empirical results show that daily highs and...

Cointegration analysis is an econometric tool used to identify equilibrium among assets and construct a pairs trading portfolio. The discrete-time vector error correction model (VECM) for identifying cointegration includes lag difference terms as explanatory variables, thus permitting delayed...

The log-linearized present value model (PVM) has been widely used in corporate finance to understand the long-run relationship between share price and dividends using panel data. However, the application of recently established panel econometric approaches that account for slope heterogeneity...

This study proposed an optimal model to examine the relationship between the Bitcoin price and six macroeconomic variables - the Bitcoin price, Standard and Poor's 500 volatility index, US treasury 10-year yield, US consumer price index, gold price and dollar index. It also examined the...