Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing and Capital Markets microform written by Sivakumar, Ranjini M. (Ranjini Mony) and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 1998 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Christian Funke and published by Springer DE. This book was released on 2008-06-26 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for stock prices and examines economic links between customer and supplier firms. The empirical investigations document return predictability and show that capital markets are not perfectly efficient.
Download or read book Three Essays in International Asset Pricing written by Prasad Padmanabhan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dissertation consists of three essays in international asset pricing. The first essay develops a model where investors face barriers to foreign portfolio investment. Using the standard mean-variance framework, risk return relationships for all securities are developed. It is also shown that: (1) previous models adopting this approach are special cases of this model, and (2) all investors generally prefer complete removal of barriers over other market structures. Essay #2 empirically explores the issue of the degree of segmentation of the international capital market for risky securities. Using the 'emerging market' (EM) data base, it is shown that the international capital market is neither completely segmented nor completely integrated. Finally, the third essay investigates the relationship between stock returns and inflation for the EM securities. It is shown that stock returns are positively (negatively) related to inflation, for the group of high (low) inflation countries in the sample." --
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing and Financial Institutions written by Patrick Christian Kiefer and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forecasts of risk prices at alternative time scales can be used to consolidate history dependence in asset return time series. The resulting Markovian structure identifies a martingale component in the latent transition dynamics. I apply the model to U.S. stock markets and find the concentration of return volatility on the martingale component - the spectral gap - is countercyclical, and predicts annual market returns out-of-sample (o.o.s.) with an R-squared of 10.8%. Value (HML) predictability is concave and front-heavy, peaking at a one-year 14.7% o.o.s. R-squared. In contrast, the momentum predictability term structure is convex, insignificant on the short end, but accelerates to 31.4% o.o.s. R-squared at the three-year horizon. I form timing portfolios to investigate the risk content of the aggregate forecasts. Incremental gains from timing value are compensation for bearing systematic shocks to time-varying expected returns. Exposure to the market timing portfolio is cross-sectionally priced, while gains from timing size (SMB) are not. The findings provide new restrictions for parametric asset pricing theories. Incomplete human capital markets induce unexpected rebalancing costs that are mitigated by a bank. Ex-ante, the bank exchanges risky endowments for demandable liabilities. An ex-post withdrawal corresponds to exercising a put option on the market, used to resolve an unexpected portfolio choice problem. Portfolio choice opens a risk aversion channel that distinguishes our predictions from Diamond and Dybvig (1983) and related models. In these models, deposits resolve consumption-timing tensions by accommodating the investor's intertemporal elasticity of substitution (IES). The inclusion of risk-based incentives allow us to characterize the endogenous link between the intermediary balance sheet and the preference-based pricing kernel. Moreover, ex-post rebalancing incentives relax enforcement problems for ex-ante optimal policies in incomplete markets. This provides a justification for the coexistence of intermediation and market institutions.
Download or read book Three Essays on Dynamic Asset Pricing microform written by Fouda, Henri and published by Montréal : Service des archives, Université de Montréal, Section Microfilm. This book was released on 1995 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Financial Asset Pricing microform written by Maxwell R. (Maxwell Rich) Smith and published by National Library of Canada. This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in asset pricing written by Fatima Khushnud and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation follows on an asset pricing theme. Overall, it explores asset pricing tests in the equity and the bond markets and attempts to identify the common risk factors that best explain cross sectional variation in stock and bond returns. The first three studies use US data, while the last study explores European bonds data. The sample period is from January 2002 to December 2012 and the Fama and French (1993) time series framework is used in each of the studies. The first two studies in this dissertation focus on equity markets, while the third and fourth study encompasses the US and European corporate bond markets respectively. There has been extensive research on asset pricing models. However, despite being a well-researched area, there is little consensus as to which model is most appropriate. Motivated by this gap in literature, this thesis builds on the work of Fama and French (1993) and applies their time series framework to both equity and bonds. Chapter 2 draws on the link between firm leverage and stock returns as supported by capital structure theory. It examines whether a leverage (LEV) factor exhibits explanatory power over the US stock return variations. The analysis indicates that the LEV factor significantly contributes towards the explanatory power of the fitted models and thus appears to have some explanatory power over U.S. stock returns. Chapter 3 addresses the question of whether ex-post returns should be used in testing ex-ante asset pricing models. This chapter explores the impact of using IBES mean target price as a proxy for expected price in tests of the CAPM, Fama and French (1993) three factor and the Cahart (1997) four factor models. The analysis suggests that the expectation based proxy of returns performs in a similar manner to realized returns in asset pricing tests and thus the use of realized returns should not adversely bias asset pricing tests. Chapter 4 and 5 add to the bond pricing literature by applying time-series studies to US and European bonds. Chapter 4 investigates common risk factors within the US corporate bond returns. The analysis shows that stock market factors do not add explanatory power to the bond return models used in this study. The bond market factor, DEF, dominates all other explanatory variables in regression analysis. Chapter 5 of this dissertation examines the common risk factors explaining variation within the European corporate bond returns. The results are consistent with Chapter 4 indicating that the European DEF factor also captures much of the variation in European bond returns. This dissertation enhances our understanding of the asset pricing models within a Fama and French (1993) time series framework for both equity and bond markets. Support is provided for the importance of leverage in asset pricing. The choice between realised returns and expected returns is also explored in this thesis, with the results suggesting that this choice has little impact on the results from time series asset pricing tests. The pricing of corporate bonds is also explored with evidence to confirm the Fama and French (193) result that equity and bond pricing models differ considerably in US market. Finally, it is found that the key pricing factors are common to both US and European corporate bonds.
Download or read book Essays on International Asset Pricing in Partially Segmented Markets written by Sundaram Janakiramanan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Irina Pimenova and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I revisit two problems in empirical asset pricing. In Chapter 1, I propose a methodology to evaluate the validity of linear asset pricing factor models under short sale restrictions using a regression-based test. The test is based on the revised null hypothesis that intercepts obtained from regressing excess returns of test assets on factor returns, usually referred to as alphas, are non-positive. I show that under short sale restrictions a much larger set of models is supported by the data than without restrictions. In particular, the Fama-French five-factor model augmented with the momentum factor is rejected less often than other models. In Chapter 2, I investigate patterns of equity premium predictability in international capital markets and explore the robustness of common predictive variables. In particular, I focus on predictive regressions with multiple predictors: dividend-price ratio, four interest rate variables, and inflation. To obtain precise estimates, two estimation methods are employed. First, I consider all capital markets jointly as a system of regressions. Second, I take into account uncertainty about which potential predictors forecast excess returns by employing spike-and-slab prior. My results suggest evidence in favor of predictability is weak both in- and out-of-sample and limited to a few countries. The strong predictability observed on the U.S. market is rather exceptional. In addition, my analysis shows that considering model uncertainty is essential as it leads to a statistically significant increase of investors' welfare both in- and out-of-sample. On the other hand, the welfare increase associated with considering capital markets jointly is relatively modest. However, it leads to reconsider the relative importance of predictive variables because the variables that are statistically significant predictors in the country-specific regressions are insignificant when the capital markets are studied jointly. In particular, my results suggest that the in-sample evidence in favor of the interest rate variables, that are believed to be among the most robust predictors by the literature, is spurious and is mostly driven by ignoring the cross-country information. Conversely, the dividend-price ratio emerges as the only robust predictor of future stock returns.
Download or read book Three Essays in Asset Pricing written by Yoon Kang Lee and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three chapters that aim to understand how the interactions between various investors and instruments in financial markets are linked to asset prices.
Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing written by Amir Akbari and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis explores the role of borrowing frictions, exchange rate risk, and intertemporal demand in stock prices across international financial markets. Specifically, I study how global asset prices are governed, considering the constraints and incentives that investors face when making investment decisions. The first essay adds a new dimension to the research on the dynamics of global market integration, providing an explanation for reversals in market integration via funding illiquidity. I show that when funding capital dries out, investors, unable to borrow and trade freely, fail to facilitate the integration process. Therefore, international asset prices during these periods are explained more by country-specific asset pricing factors than by global asset pricing factors. The second essay explores the role of exchange rate risk and intertemporal demand in international markets. These sources of risk are linked via the interest rate channel and are both likely proxies of the state variables that affect asset prices over time. We carefully disentangle the two risk factors and study the international equity market indices with multiple risk factors in a large cross-section through time. We show that the evidence of global pricing of risk crucially hinges on pooling assets with substantial cross-sectional variation. The third essay introduces a methodological innovation to study the dynamics of the compensation for the intertemporal risk in business cycles. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical asset pricing literature by studying the relative importance of prices of intertemporal risk during recessions, recoveries, and expansions." --
Download or read book Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing in International Equity Markets written by Birgit Charlotte Müller and published by Springer Gabler. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Open-Access-book three essays on empirical asset pricing in international equity markets are presented. Despite being of fundamental economic and scientific importance, international financial markets have remained considerably underresearched until today. In the first essay, the role of firm-specific characteristics is analyzed for the momentum effect to exist in international equity markets. The second essay investigates the validity, persistence, and robustness of the newly discovered capital share growth factor across international equity markets as proposed by Lettau et al. (2019) for the U.S. market. Lastly, the third and final essay studies stock market reactions of European vendor banks to distressed loan sale announcements.
Download or read book Two Essays on Asset Pricing written by Dan Luo and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Two Essays on Asset Pricing" by Dan, Luo, 罗丹, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: This thesis centers around the pricing and risk-return tradeoff of credit and equity derivatives. The first essay studies the pricing in the CDS Index (CDX) tranche market, and whether these instruments have been reasonably priced and integrated within the financial market generally, both before and during the financial crisis. We first design a procedure to value CDO tranches using an intensity-based model which falls into the affine model class. The CDX tranche spreads are efficiently explained by a three-factor version of this model, before and during the crisis period. We then construct tradable CDX tranche portfolios, representing the three default intensity factors. These portfolios capture the same exposure as the S&P 500 index optionmarket, to a market crash. We regress these CDX factors against the underlying index, the volatility factor, and the smirk factor, extracted from the index option returns, and against the Fama-French market, size and book-to-market factors. We finally argue that the CDX spreads are integrated in the financial market, and their issuers have not made excess returns. The second essay explores the specifications of jumps for modeling stock price dynamics and cross-sectional option prices. We exploit a long sample of about 16 years of S&P500 returns and option prices for model estimation. We explicitly impose the time-series consistency when jointly fitting the return and option series. We specify a separate jump intensity process which affords a distinct source of uncertainty and persistence level from the volatility process. Our overall conclusion is that simultaneous jumps in return and volatility are helpful in fitting the return, volatility and jump intensity time series, while time-varying jump intensities improve the cross-section fit of the option prices. In the formulation with time-varying jump intensity, both the mean jump size and standard deviation of jump size premia are strengthened. Our MCMC approach to estimate the models is appropriate, because it has been found to be powerful by other authors, and it is suitable for dealing with jumps. To the best of our knowledge, our study provides the the most comprehensive application of the MCMC technique to option pricing in affine jump-diffusion models. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4819935 Subjects: Capital assets pricing model
Download or read book Two Essays on Asset Pricing and Options Market written by Huimin Zhao and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Two Essays on Asset Pricing and Options Market" by Huimin, Zhao, 趙慧敏, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4150839 Subjects: Options (Finance) Capital assets pricing model
Download or read book Three Essays on Asset Pricing written by Bingxu Chen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We decompose private equity returns into a component due to traded factors and a time-varying private equity premium. We find strong cyclicality in the premium component that differs according to fund type. The time-series estimates allow us to directly test theories about private equity cyclicality, and we find evidence in favor of the Kaplan and Strmberg (2009) hypothesis that capital market segmentation helps to determine the private equity premium.
Download or read book Essays on Capital Markets written by Jin G. Jung and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
