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This paper examines the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on stock returns, CDS and economic activity in the US and the …, whilst the CDS ones are positive and significant only in a few periods, and there are very mixed results for those of stock … activity in all countries in the early stages of the pandemic (especially in Italy), and a positive one on CDS at the same time …
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Does the presence of arbitrageurs decrease equilibrium asset price volatility? I study an economy with arbitrageurs, informed investors, and noise traders. Arbitrageurs face a trade-off between arbitrage and inference: they would like to buy assets in response to temporary price declines (the...
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This paper studies volatility characteristics of the Indian CNX midcap index and contrasts with the large cap Nifty. An EGARCH model is fitted to daily returns for 2010 and is subjected to an out-of-sample back test. The study finds differences in volatility behavior of the indices. The Midcap...
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In this paper, I examine the relations between risk management disclosures, governance, and the market pricing of the fair value gains and losses (FVGL) for US commercial bank holding companies (banks). I find that banks with strong corporate governance disclose more about their risk management...
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For each of the three major asset classes: stocks, bonds and treasury bills, this is the first article to present estimates of annual nominal and real returns for the Danish capital market during the whole twentieth century. The average annual Danish stock return in excess of bond (bill) return...
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I show that a firm's capital intensity affects the asset pricing implications of investment-specific technology shocks measured by a popular measure, the IMC porfolio. Capital-intensive stocks sorted by the exposure to this measure generate a highly significant average return premium of up to 5%...
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This paper documents that the increase in public debt can lead to higher dividend payout to shareholders, which suggests public debt can be a strong cash flow predictor which helps better predict future stock returns. Specifically, the higher public debt-to-GDP ratio can predict both higher...
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We show that the stock market pricing the presidential margin of victory in a nonlinear concave fashion, with a higher price for medium than slight or crushing victories. We conjecture that the margin of victory reflects president confidence and the ability to execute policies. A small margin...
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We show theoretically and empirically that flows into index funds raise the prices of large stocks in the index disproportionately more than the prices of small stocks. Conversely, flows predict a high future return of the small-minus-large index portfolio. This finding runs counter to the CAPM,...
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