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price of risk, and factors that are both. The estimators explicitly allow for time varying prices of risk, time varying … significant prices of risk which are found to be quantitatively more important than time varying betas in reducing pricing errors. …
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the prices of aggregate risk from bond yields and stock returns using a no-arbitrage model. Using these risk prices, we …
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This paper examines the extent to which individual investors provide liquidity to the stock market, and whether they are compensated for doing so.We show that the ability of aggregate retail order imbalances, contrarian in nature, to predict short-term future returns is significantly enhanced...
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We examine the risk-return characteristics of a rolling portfolio investment strategy where more than six thousand … turnover and low leverage, which may lower systematic risk exposures. To examine this possibility, we launch an easily … constructed ‘low minus high’ (LMH) stock turnover portfolio as a liquidity risk factor. The LMH factor produces significant betas …
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This Paper analyses the relation between momentum strategies (strategies that buy stocks with high returns over the previous three to 12 months and sell stocks with low returns over the same period) and turnover (number of shares traded divided by the number of shares outstanding) for the German...
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We quantify the sources of risk in currency returns as a first step toward understanding the returns reported for the … total currency risk over horizons of one to three months. …
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Index tracking requires building a portfolio of stocks (a replica) whose behaviour is as close as possible to that of a given stock index. Typically, much fewer stocks should appear in the replica than in the index, and there should be no low frequency (persistent) components in the tracking...
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use of model averaging techniques as a way of dealing with the risk of inadvertently using false models in portfolio … management. Evaluation of volatility models is then considered and a simple Value-at-Risk (VaR) diagnostic test is proposed for …
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Recent financial research has provided evidence on the predictability of asset returns. In this Paper we consider the results contained in Pesaran-Timmerman (1995), which provided evidence on predictability of excess returns in the US stock market over the sample 1959-92. We show that the...
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This paper investigates the empirical relation between spot and forward implied volatility in foreign exchange. We formulate and test the forward volatility unbiasedness hypothesis, which may be viewed as the volatility analogue to the extensively researched hypothesis of unbiasedness in forward...
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