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We investigate two alternative explanations why men may hold more stocks than women. Apart from a gender difference in risk aversion, gender differences in either optimism or in perceived risk of financial markets might cause men to hold more risky assets. Our results show that men tend to be...
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We use extreme value theory to analyse the tails of a momentum strategy's return distribution. The asymmetry between the fat left tail and thin right tail strongly reduces a momentum strategy's prospective utility levels
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Equity returns predict carry trade profits from shorting low interest rate currencies. Commodity price changes predict profits from longing high interest rate currencies. The gradual information diffusion hypothesis (Hong & Stein, 1999; Hong, Torous, & Valkanov, 2007) provides a ready explanation...
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Bakshi and Panayotov (2013) find that commodity price changes predict profits from longing high interest rate currencies (long leg profits) up to three months later. We find that equity returns also predict carry trade profits, but from shorting low interest rate currencies (short leg profits)....
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