We estimate a dynamic asset pricing model characterized by heterogeneous boundedly rational agents. The fundamental value of the risky asset is publicly available to all agents, but they have different beliefs about the persistence of deviations of stock prices from the fundamental benchmark. An...

The stock market is affected by sentiment. The question is, however, how to quantify this effect on asset prices. By utilizing the unique RavenPack Sentiment Index, a news-based proxy for market sentiment, this paper intends to address this issue empirically by exploring the pricing implications...

This paper examines the momentum strategy in Australia under the debate on whether momentum strategy is profitable in Australia. It studies both the price and alpha momentum strategy performance under several lookback periods, and applies short position adjustment and volatility scaling. I...

Recently, alpha and risk factor volatility have reached extremes. In this study we examine the risk and return relationships of value and momentum, which we believe have shifted. We find that market risk, or beta, correlations for both factors have reversed and have resulted to changes and...

I propose and test a unifying hypothesis to explain both cross-sectional return anomalies and subjective return expectation errors: some investors ignore discount rate dynamics when forming return expectations. Consistent with the hypothesis: (1) stocks' expected cash flow growth and...

I characterize the global solution to the portfolio problem of two heterogeneous investors with general preferences, in a two-tree, two-good environment. Investors have recursive preferences and a bias in consumption towards a preferred good. The framework highlights the role of the allocation...

This note extends the CAPM to situations where a subset of investors is not mean-variance optimizers. We show that a CAPM relation holds when suitably adjusting beta to the presence of such investors. The adjusted CAPM can be used to reveal which non-mean-variance behavior is needed to explain...

This asset pricing model incorporates four positive realities of investing; that investors have many stochastic goals, seek to delegate to skillful agents, explicitly specify risk budgets, and maximize risk-adjusted relative returns. Critical to investment practice, it provides asset pricing,...

In investment, particularly in the portfolio management, the risk and returns are two crucial measures in making investment decisions. This paper attempts to provide a brief theoretical explanation with examples on determining the returns and associated risk of shares, and of the portfolio of...

I study a general equilibrium model in which investors face endowment risk and trade two correlated assets; one asset is traded on a liquid market whereas the other is traded on an illiquid over-the-counter (OTC) market. Endowment shocks not only make prices drop, they also make the OTC asset...