A growing number of studies in finance decompose multiperiod portfolio returns into series of single period returns, using these to test asset pricing models or market efficiency or to evaluate the returns to investment strategies such as those based on momentum and value-growth. We provide a...

Results from the ARCH/GARCH literature and studies of implied volatility clearly show that volatility changes over time. This paper investigates the improvement in pricing of FTSE 100 index options from taking into account stochastic volatility. The major tool for this analysis is Heston?s...

This study uses survey data of fund managers? views on prospects for international equity markerts to shed light on why investment portfolios are signnificantly biased towards domestic equities. We find that fund managers from the US, the UK, Continental Europe, and Japan show a significant...

In this paper, we make a liquidity adjustment to the consumption-based capital asset pricing model (CCAPM) and show that the liquidity-adjusted CCAPM is a generalized model of Acharya and Pedersen (2005). Using different proxies for transaction costs such as the effective trading costs measure...

A growing number of studies in finance decompose multi-period buy-and-hold portfolioreturns into a series of single period returns. The method used to decomposethese returns is important because researchers use them in tests of asset pricing modelsand market efficiency and in evaluating the...

In this paper, we propose a liquidity risk adjustment to the Epstein and Zin (1989, 1991) model and assess the adjusted model's performance against the traditional consumption pricing models. We show that liquidity is a significant risk factor and it adds considerable explanatory power to the...

Employment growth (EG) is likely related to liquidity fundamentals of investment opportunities, firm health, and information environment. This, in turn, implies that liquidity risk may play a role in explaining the relation between employment growth and stock returns. We explain the link between...

Using the new CRSP compilation of daily trading volume data from 1926 to 1962, this paper conducts a detailed analysis of liquidity from 1926 to 2005. It distinguishes liquidity risk from liquidity as a characteristic and presents new evidence on the importance of liquidity risk in asset...

This paper examines the two-factor model of Liu (2006) using the recent CRSP compilation of daily trading volume data between 1926 and 1962. I find that the liquidity premium is as strong for the early period as for the post 1963-period, and it is the most significant and persistent premium...

This paper examines the two-factor model of Liu (2006) using the recent CRSP compilation of daily trading volume data between 1926 and 1962. I find that the liquidity premium is as strong for the early period as for the post 1963-period, and it is the most significant and persistent premium...