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Strategic investment, industry concentration and the cross section of returns

Bustamante, Maria Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This paper provides an alternative real options framework to assess how firms' strategic interaction under imperfect competition a¤ects the industrial dynamics of investment, concentration, and expected returns. When firms have similar production technologies, the cross sectional variation in...

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Portfolio choice beyond the traditional approach

Penaranda, Francisco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper surveys asset allocation methods that extend the traditional approach. An important feature of the traditional approach is that measures the risk and return tradeoff in terms of mean and variance of final wealth. However, there are also other important features that are not always...

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The international diversification puzzle is not worse than you think

Julliard, Christian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper offers two main contributions. First, it shows how the Baxter and Jermann (1997) claim that, once we consider human capital risk, the international diversification puzzle is worse than we think, is based on an econometric misspecification rejected by the data. Second, it outlines how,...

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Rational asset pricing implications from realistic trading frictions

Zigrand, Jean-Pierre - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

it is shown that arbitrage opportunities occur which could not have occured in a standard model. A certain and precise … degree of informativeness of prices to the traders is lost because the decision making process becomes endogenously segmented … and decentralized within the same decision making entity (distinct "trading desks"). It is shown that, compared to the …

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Optimal expectations

Brunnermeier, Markus K.; Parker, Jonathan A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

the other hand, expectations that are biased towards optimism worsen decision making, leading to poorer realized outcomes …

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Dynamic equilibrium with rare events and heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors

Chabakauri, Georgy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We consider a general equilibrium Lucas (1978) economy with one consumption good and two heterogeneous Epstein-Zin investors. The output is subject to rare large drops or, more generally, can have non-lognormal distribution with higher cumulants. The heterogeneity in preferences generates excess...

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Understanding portfolio efficiency with conditioning information

Peñaranda, Francisco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Contrary to the classic framework of passive strategies, if investors exploit return predictability through active strategies then there is a tension between the mean-variance frontiers that drive empirical work and the mean-variance preferences that are used in finance theory. We show that...

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Stock prices under pressure: how tax and interest rates drive returns at the turn of the tax year

Kang, Johnny; Pekkala, Tapio; Polk, Christopher; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We show that the level of interest rates determines the magnitude of mispricing at the turn of the tax year, as investors face the trade-o¤ between selling a temporarily depressed stock this year and selling next year, but delaying tax implications by one year. Interest rates do explain the...

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The more we know, the less we agree: public announcements and higher-order expectations

Kondor, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The stylized fact that public announcements in financial markets are followed by intense trading, high trading volume and volatile prices, is widely perceived as the sign of increasing disagreement due to the announcement. However, it is common to argue that this would be inconsistent with...

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Some historical perspectives on the Bond-Stock Earnings Yield Model for crash prediction around the world

Lleo, Sebastien; Ziemba, Bill - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We provide a historical perspective focusing on Ziemba's experiences and research on the bond-stock earnings yield differential model (BSEYD) starting from when he first used it in Japan in 1988 through to the present in 2014. The model has called many but not all crashes. Those called have high...

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