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Investors' trading behaviour and stock market volatility during crisis periods : a dual long-memory model for the Korean stock exchange

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Karanasos, Menelaos; Yfanti, … - 2019

This study examines the impact of investors' buy and sell trades on Korean stock market volatility across two crisis … on volatility that depends on the type of investor trading and on the phase of the business cycle. Buy orders appear to … be more informative than sell orders since they mostly lower volatility in the pre-crisis periods, while sell and post …

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Monetary policy through production networks : evidence from the stock market

Ozdagli, Ali; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: May 2017

Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...

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Momentum effects in the cryptocurrency market after one-day abnormal returns

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Plastun, Alex - 2019

This paper examines whether there exists a momentum effect after one-day abnormal returns in the cryptocurrency market. For this purpose a number of hypotheses of interest are tested for the BitCoin, Ethereum and LiteCoin exchange rates vis-à-vis the US dollar over the period...

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Dissecting characteristics nonparametrically

Freyberger, Joachim; Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2018 - This version: July 2018

We propose a nonparametric method to study which characteristics provide incremental information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...

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Dissecting characteristics nonparametrically

Freyberger, Joachim; Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: February 2017

We propose a nonparametric method to test which characteristics provide independent information for the cross section of expected returns. We use the adaptive group LASSO to select characteristics and to estimate how they affect expected returns nonparametrically. Our method can handle a large...

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Can time-varying currency risk hedging explain exchange rates?

Bräuer, Leonie; Hau, Harald - 2022

Over the last decade foreign bond portfolio positions in US dollar assets have risen above the reciprocal US investor positions in foreign currencies. In periods of increased economic uncertainty, institutional investors hedge their international bond positions, which creates a net hedging...

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High frequency trading and fragility

Cespa, Giovanni; Vives, Xavier - 2016

We show that limited dealer participation in the market, coupled with an informational friction resulting from high frequency trading, can induce demand for liquidity to be upward sloping and strategic complementarities in traders' liquidity consumption decisions: traders demand more liquidity...

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Expectation dispersion, uncertainty, and the reaction to news

Born, Benjamin; Dovern, Jonas; Enders, Zeno - 2020

Releases of key macroeconomic indicators are closely watched by financial markets. We investigate the role of expectation dispersion and economic uncertainty for the stock-market reaction to indicator releases. We find that the strength of the financial market response to news decreases with the...

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Cash flow duration and the term structure of equity returns

Weber, Michael - 2016

The term structure of equity returns is downward-sloping: stocks with high cash flow duration earn 1.10% per month lower returns than short-duration stocks in the cross section. I create a measure of cash flow duration at the firm level using balance sheet data to show this novel fact. Factor...

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Do economic policymakers practice what they preach? : the case of pension decisions

Dahan, Momi; Kogut, Tehila; Shalem, Moshe - 2009

This paper examines whether policymakers, economists at the Israeli Finance Ministry, act in their personal pension decisions in accordance with the rational behaviour assumptions underlying the pension policies they advance. We find that while economists' decisions regarding three other...

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