Download or read book Do International Investors Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down Too written by Rajesh Chakrabarti and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using changes in the MSCI Standard Country Indices for 29 countries between 1998 and 2001, we document that stock returns and volumes exhibit quot;index effectsquot; in international markets similar to those detected by the studies of US stocks. The inclusion of a stock generally leads to higher returns immediately following the announcement followed by a further rise till the actual change with a partial reversion in the post change period. Deletions lead to significant negative returns that continue after the change date. Volumes traded increase significantly and remain at high levels after the change date for the added stocks. There are also considerable cross-country variations in these effects. The evidence is consistent with the downward sloping demand curve hypothesis though some price-pressure effects are also present. Tests using data on ADR availability and free float on stocks added to the indices fail to turn up any evidence in support of information effects.
Download or read book Why Do Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down written by Antti Petajisto and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representative agent models are inconsistent with existing empirical evidence for steep demand curves for individual stocks. This paper resolves the puzzle by proposing that stock prices are instead set by two separate classes of investors. While the market portfolio is still priced by individual investors based on their collective risk aversion, those individual investors also delegate part of their wealth to active money managers who use that capital to price stocks in the cross-section. In equilibrium the fee charged by active managers has to equal the before-fee alpha they earn; this endogenously determines the amount of active capital and the slopes of demand curves. A calibration of the model reveals that demand curves can indeed be steep enough to match the magnitude of many empirical findings, including the price effects for stocks added to (or deleted from) the Samp;P 500 index.
Download or read book Demand Curves for European Stocks Slope Down Too written by Robert Neumann and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2000 implementation of float-capitalization index weights in the Dow Jones STOXXSM indices changed the demand for large European stocks. In this paper, we test for imperfect-substitution and price-pressure effects due to the change in the demand for stocks. Our results show that we cannot reject complete reversal after eight weeks of abnormal trading volume for companies with both decreased or increased index weights. This result is consistent with the existence of downward sloping demand curves for stocks. Contrary to the fundamental assumption of perfectly elastic demand curves in asset pricing theories, our findings suggest that a price pressure effect is not a plausible explanation.
Download or read book Do Demand Curves for Stocks Slope Down Evidence from Aggregate Data written by Xuejing Xing and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We examine whether the aggregate demand curve for stocks is downward sloping. As a proxy for aggregate demand, we use net outflows (dividends plus repurchases less net issues) from the stock market scaled by the previous year's market capitalization. To disentangle the information and price pressure effects from the demand curve effects, we use an information-free demographic variable as an instrument and look at the relation between annual changes in aggregate demand and excess market return. We find that information-free changes in the annual aggregate demand for stocks do not lead to changes in the annual excess market return. This finding supports long-term horizontal demand curves for stocks.
Download or read book Demand Curves for Stocks Do Slope Down written by Aditya Kaul and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weights in the Toronto Stock Exchange 300 index are determined by the market values of the included stocks' public floats. In November 1996, the exchange implemented a previously announced revision of its definition of the public float. This revision, which increased the floats and the index weights of 31 stocks, conveyed no information and had no effect on the legal duties of shareholders. Affected stocks experienced statistically significant excess returns of 2.3 percent during the event week, and no price reversal occurred as trading volume returned to normal levels.These findings support downward sloping demand curves for stocks.
Download or read book Is the Demand Curve for Stocks Downward Sloping New Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings written by Zhangkai Huang and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the demand curve for stocks downward-sloping? The index-inclusion literature tries to answer this question by looking at price reactions to stocks added or deleted from major stock indices. We look for new evidence using another well-established event: the negative price reaction to the seasoned equity offerings. While this can be caused by asymmetric information, another plausible explanation might be a downward-sloping demand curve for stocks. We argue that we can disentangle the two factors using a natural experiment in China's stock market, where companies' equity offering plans need to be approved by the regulator. We find strong negative price reactions to the announcement of such approval. Since all information on the overvaluation of the firm is released when the firm announces its equity offering plan, the negative reaction to the approval of the plan cannot be explained by changes in the valuation of the firm. Furthermore, we find different price reactions in China's segmented stock market when the firm only issues new shares in one of the two domestic markets (A- and B-share markets). The evidence suggests that a significant part of the negative price reaction of equity offerings is related to a supply shock to a downward sloping demand curve.
Download or read book Do Demand Curves for Currencies Slope Down Evidence from the MSCI Global Index Change written by Harald Hau and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional portfolio balance theory derives a downward sloping currency demand function from limited international asset substitutability. Historically, this theory enjoyed little empirical support. We provide direct evidence by examining the exchange rate effect of a major redefinition of the MSCI global equity index in 2001 and 2002. The index redefinition implied large changes in the representation of different countries in the MSCI world index and therefore produced strong exogenous equity flows by index funds. Our event study reveals that countries with a relatively increasing equity representation experienced a relative currency appreciation upon announcement of the index change. Moreover, it shows that uninformative shocks can propagate from one asset class to another.
Download or read book Do Demand Curves for Small Stocks Slope Down written by Ph.D. Biktimirov (CFA, Ernest N.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stocks added to the Samp;P 500 generally experience positive abnormal returns following the announcement. Several competing explanations exist for this reaction, but small sample sizes and other issues make it difficult to distinguish among them. We examine this subject using the small-cap Russell 2000 index, which has a number of advantages over the Samp;P 500 in this context. Our primary finding is that stocks added to or deleted from the Russell 2000 experience significant changes in stock price and trading volume, but the effect is transitory. The results support the price pressure hypothesis.
Download or read book All Stocks are Not Created Equal written by Ph.D. Biktimirov (CFA, Ernest N.) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I examine the slope of the demand curve for stocks by analyzing the transition of the Samp;P 500, Samp;P MidCap 400, and Samp;P SmallCap 600 from market capitalization to free float weighting, which occurred in 2005. This unique information-free event allows isolating the effect of the decrease in demand for stocks from other possible competing effects offered in the literature. This decrease in demand produces a stock price decline, which is accompanied by significant abnormal trading volume. My main finding is that the slope of the demand curve is related to a stock's beta. Small beta stocks show a permanent decline in stock value, which is consistent with a downward sloping demand curve. In contrast, large beta stocks exhibit a transitory stock price reaction, which supports a flat long-run demand curve for stocks.
Download or read book A Working Model of Slump and Recovery from Disturbances to Capital Goods Demand in a Closed Non Monetary Economy written by International Monetary Fund and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1988-08-23 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain long swings in activity may involve one or more non-monetary mechanisms not yet studied. Unlike the fundamentally classical “real” theory of the business cycle refined in this decade, the emerging line of “real” models called structuralist, such as the model here, hinges on the long time required for complete adjustment of implicit labor contracts to real shocks disturbing labor demand. The structuralist model here describes the depression and recovery resulting from shocks in time preference, the public debt, or labor supply whose impact drives up the real rate of interest and drives down the real demand-price of investment goods.
Download or read book Changes in the Nikkei 500 written by Shinhua Liu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigates the price and trading volume effects of changes in the Nikkei 500. On average, price increases (decreases) significantly for stocks added (deleted) with no post-event reversal. Trading volume, on average, increases significantly for both additions and deletions in the short run. Furthermore, long-term trading volume drops (rises) significantly for stocks added (deleted), suggesting gradual index-linked trading behavior. We interpret these evidences as supportive of only the hypothesis of downward-sloping demand curves for stocks. Finally, as expected, changes in the Nikkei 500 induce considerably smaller (in magnitude) price changes than changes in the Samp;P 500.
Download or read book The Law and Structure of the International Financial System written by John H. Friedland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1994-04-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major themes of financial regulation in the U.S., the EEC, and Japan are discussed in four interwoven, but independent, essays. The central focus is the protection of the financial system by insuring prudential rules against systemic risks, particularly through promoting capital adequacy by international and national agreement and with due consideration to the distinction between the banking and securities business. The work concludes with the assertion that international harmonization of regulation is necessary for the long-run efficiency of financial markets.
Download or read book Institutional Investors in Global Markets written by Gordon L Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional Investors in Global Market provides you with a comprehensive overview about what institutional investors do, how they do it, and when and where they do it; it is about the production of investment returns in the global economy. Being a book about the production process, you learn about key issues found in the academic literature on the theory of the firm. In this case, the focus is on the global financial services industry, where the building blocks underpinning the study of industrial corporations are less relevant. You gain an understanding of how and why the production of investment returns differs from that of manufactured goods. You are provided with an analytical framework that situates financial institutions within the complex web of the intermediaries that dominate developed financial markets. In summary, you gain further insights into analysis of the organization and management of institutional investors; as well as an analysis of the global financial services industry.
Download or read book International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim written by Takatoshi Ito and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The imbalanced, yet mutually beneficial, trading relationship between the United States and Asia has long been one of international finance’s most perplexing mysteries. Although the United States continues to post a substantial trade deficit—and China reaps the benefits of a surplus—the dollar has yet to sink in the face of ever-increasing account disparities. International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim explains why the United States enjoys a seemingly symbiotic relationship with its trading partners despite stark inequities in the trade balance, especially with Asia. This timely and well-informed study also debunks the assumed link between economic openness and low inflation in the region, identifies the serious gap between academic and private-sector researchers’ understanding of exchange rate volatility, and analyzes the liberalization of Asian capital accounts. International Financial Issues in the Pacific Rim will have broad implications for global trade and economic policy issues in Asia and beyond.
Download or read book Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis written by Edwin J. Elton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Portfolio Theory and Investment Analysis, 9th Editionexamines the characteristics and analysis of individual securities, as well as the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. It stresses the economic intuition behind the subject matter while presenting advanced concepts of investment analysis and portfolio management. The authors present material that captures the state of modern portfolio analysis, general equilibrium theory, and investment analysis in an accessible and intuitive manner.
Download or read book Advances in the Practice of Public Investment Management written by Narayan Bulusu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the latest advances in the theory and practice of public investment management. It includes the most up-to-date developments in the implementation of public asset management – including multiple contributions on portfolio allocation in varying interest-rate and credit-risk environments. Other highlights include implementation, performance attribution and governance issues surrounding reserves management, portfolio construction techniques appropriate for public investors and an in-depth discussion of the challenges to achieving international diversification.
