Download or read book Essays on Heterogeneity Asset Pricing and Trade written by Shashidhar N. Murthy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Heterogeneity Insurance and Asset Pricing written by Tsvetanka Karagyozova and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing and Market Imperfections written by Weiyang Qiu (Ph. D.) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) The third part of the thesis studies asset pricing under heterogeneous information. In an asset market where agents have heterogeneous information, asset prices not only depend their expectations of the true fundamentals but also depend on their expectations of the expectations of others. Iterations of such expectations lead to the so-called "infinite regress" problem, which makes the analysis of asset pricing under heterogeneous information challenging. In this part, we solve the infinite-regress problem in a simple economic setting under a fairly general information structure. This allows us to examine how different forms of information heterogeneity impacts the behavior of asset prices, their return dynamics, trading volume as well as agents' welfare.
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing with Preference Heterogeneity written by Giuliano Antonio Curatola and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Household Heterogeneity and Asset Pricing written by Jack Favilukis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Pricing Under Uncertainty and Heterogeneity in the Finance trade growth Nexus written by Seyed Reza Yousefi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation consists of empirical and theoretical essays on Microeconomic Theory and International Economics. The first chapter discusses the existence and characterization of a model that determines producer's optimal pricing and allocation rule as a preannounced markdown schedule. The mechanism focuses on pricing and operational implications of allotting scarce resources when customers are heterogeneous in their valuations and sensitivities towards availability of product. The proposed mechanism suggests that a carefully designed multistep markdown pricing could achieve optimal revenue when selling a single unit. However, to sell multiple units, monopolist should modify the implementation of markdown pricing by either hiding the number of available products or selling them via contingent contracts and upfront payments. In the second essay, we study the heterogeneity of finance and growth nexus across countries. Our paper contributes to the literature by investigating whether this impact differs across regions and types of economy. Using a rich dataset, cross-section and dynamic panel estimation results suggest that the beneficial effect of financial deepening on economic growth in fact displays measurable heterogeneity; it is generally smaller in oil exporting countries; in certain regions, such as the Middle East and North Africa (MENA); and in lower-income countries. Further analysis suggests that these differences might be driven by regulatory/supervisory characteristics and related to differing performance on financial access for a given level of depth. The third chapter analyzes contraction of exports in the aftermath of severe financial crises and tests for its heterogeneity across different industries and based on their credit conditions. It provides a theoretical framework to provide insight on why sectors are hit disproportionately during and in the aftermath of severe financial distresses, and confirms most of them with empirical estimations. The findings suggest that industries with greater reliance on outside financing and fewer shares of tangible assets experience greater contractions in export volumes in the years following a severe financial crisis.
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Investors written by Scott Spencer Condie and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Equilibrium Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents written by Qi Zeng and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation concerns the equilibrium asset pricing and its implications when agents are heterogenous. There are three chapters in the dissertation.
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing Under Heterogeneous Beliefs written by Shangwen Wang and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Beliefs and Bounded Rational Investor written by Lei Lu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The thesis includes two essays on asset pricing. In the first essay, "Asset Pricing in a Monetary Economy with Heterogeneous Beliefs", we shed new light on the role of monetary policy in asset pricing by focusing on the case where investors have heterogeneous expectations about future monetary policy. Under heterogeneity in beliefs, investors place bets against each other on the evolution of money supply, and as a result, the sharing of wealth in the economy evolves stochastically over time, making money non-neutral. Employing a continuous-time, general equilibrium model, we establish these fluctuations to be rich in implications, in that they majorly affect the equilibrium prices of all assets, as well as inflation. In particular, we find that the stock market volatility may be significantly increased by the heterogeneity in beliefs, a conclusion supported by our empirical analysis. The second essay is titled with " Asset Pricing and Welfare Analysis with Bounded Rational Investors". Motivated by the fact that investors have limited ability and insufficient knowledge to process information, I model investors' bounded-rational behavior in processing information and study its implications on asset pricing. Bounded rational investors perceive "correlated" information (which consists of news that is correlated with fundamentals, but provides no information on them) as "fundamental" information. This generates "bounded rational risk". Asset prices and volatilities of asset returns are derived. Specially, the equity premium and the stock volatility are raised under some conditions. I also analyze the welfare impact of bounded rationality." --
Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing written by Pierre Jacques Jaffard and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Thesis is devoted to better understand market dynamics and asset pricing anomalies. In Chapter 1, which is co-authored with Andrea Hamaui, we study the effect of investors' market expectations on asset pricing. Given traditional stock returns factor modelling and the prominence of the market factor, beliefs about market returns represent a natural primitive for expectations of stock prices. As the desire to increase market exposure generates excess demand for high beta assets from constrained investors, we connect mutual funds' expectations to the beta (or low vol) anomaly. We show that the beta anomaly is particularly strong for stocks purchased by over-optimistic mutual funds. On the empirical side, we first introduce a mutual fund-level measure of market expectations and confirm the model's predictions for asset prices. In Chapter 2, which is co-authored with Andrea Hamaui, we study mutual funds' trading behavior. In particular, we introduce the concept of "core" vs "satellite" holdings and we characterize positions depending on their longevity and interim return in a fund's portfolio. We show that core positions are relatively protected from selling in times of distress, as managers consolidate their portfolio. Next, we show that this theory has implications for asset prices and liquidity: core positions incur less downward contemporaneous price pressure as a result of outflows and are relatively more liquid. A behavioral model rationalizes those findings and validates the use of interim return and longevity as proxies for the "coreness" of a position. In Chapter 3, I develop a three-period asset pricing model with heterogeneity in firms' size and a government that introduces a policy distortion. I find that large firms can better hedge the political uncertainty associated with this policy change through lobbying, which leads them to earn lower expected returns. I provide two strands of empirical evidence consistent with the model predictions. The first one looks at the behavior of a blue versus red industries around the unexpected results of the 2016 US Presidential election. The second one forms a political risk factor using a matching procedure, and shows that lobbying is indeed associated with a lower exposure to this factor.
Download or read book Essays on International Asset Pricing and Business Cycles written by Jaroslav Horvath and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation analyzes business cycles and international asset pricing under disaster risk. In the first chapter, I use annual consumption and financial data for 31 countries over 140 years and I document that developing countries exhibit a more volatile consumption and a significantly larger equity premium. By employing a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo approach, I estimate an empirical model of macroeconomic disasters - low-probability events with disastrous consequences such as the Great Depression - in developing and high-income countries. I find that developing countries have a higher overall probability of entering a disaster and that they are also much more likely to enter an individual disaster such as a sovereign debt crisis. Disasters in high-income countries are shown to be shorter, on average, but more severe and uncertain. Group heterogeneity in disaster parameters allows me to generate a substantial equity premium for both groups of countries. Disaster contagion plays a vital role in explaining the equity premium puzzle for high-income countries. The model-simulated correlations of equity premium within each group of countries are qualitatively in line with data. The second chapter provides evidence that the U.S. stock market returns not only exhibit large negative skewness, but that they also provide poor payoffs during deep consumption recessions. Using out-of-the-money S&P 500 index options, I obtain a hedged risk premium and show that the hedged risk premium captures the equity risk premium during normal times. I isolate the disaster risk premium as the difference between the total equity risk premium and the hedged risk premium. In addition, I illustrate that the risk premium due to disasters explains about eighty percent of the total equity risk premium. In the cross-section of stock returns, I find that stocks that are more negatively related to the disaster risk premium yield considerably higher subsequent returns. However, this finding is not robust to adjusting for Fama-French price factors. I also find a little predictive power of the disaster risk premium with respect to the aggregate stock market returns due to the lack of autocorrelation in the disaster risk premium. The third chapter recognizes the importance of a large informal economy for business cycles in emerging countries. I show that a two-sector real business cycle model of a small open economy with a poorly measured informal sector, Cobb-Douglas utility function, and country spread fluctuations accounts for the low volatility of hours worked and large relative volatility of consumption to output in emerging countries. Due to the non-separability between consumption and labor supply, the model cannot explain the countercyclical real interest rates and trade balance that prevail in developing countries. The results suggest that GHH preferences are necessary to generate countercyclical real interest rates and trade balance in a neoclassical setting with working capital constraint and exogenous movements in real interest rates.
Download or read book Asset Pricing and Trading Volume written by Jean-Paul Theler and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asset Pricing and Trading Volume in Heterogeneous Agent Models with Incomplete Markets written by Jean Paul Theler and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Asset Pricing and Institutional Investors written by Qi Shang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis includes three papers: 1. Limited Arbitrage Analysis of CDS Basis Trading By modeling time-varying funding costs and demand pressure as the limits to arbitrage, the paper shows that assets with identical cash-flows have not only different expected returns, but also different expected returns in excess of funding costs. I solve the model in closed-form to show that the arbitrage on the CDS and corporate bond market is a risky arbitrage. The sign of the expected excess return of the arbitrage is decided by the sign and size of market frictions rather than the observed price discrepancy. The size and risk of the arbitrage excess return are increasing in market friction levels and assets' maturities. High levels of market frictions also destruct the positive predictability of credit spread term structure on credit spread changes. Results from the empirical section support the above-mentioned model predictions. 2. General Equilibrium Analysis of Stochastic Benchmarking This paper applies a closed-form continuous-time consumption-based general equilibrium model to analyze the equilibrium implications when some agents in the economy promise to beat a stochastic benchmark at an intermediate date. For very risky benchmark, these agents increase volatility and risk premium in the equilibrium. On the other hand, when they promise to beat less risky benchmark, they decrease volatility and risk premium in the equilibrium. In both cases, the degree of effect is state-dependent and stock price rises. 3. Institutional Asset Pricing with Heterogenous Belief (Co-authored) We propose an equilibrium asset pricing model in which investors with heterogeneous beliefs care about relative performance. We find that the relative performance concern leads agents to trade more similarly, which has two effects. First, similar trading directly decreases volatility. Second, similar trading decreases the impact of the dominant agents. When the economy is extremely good or bad, the second effect is dominant so that the relative performance concern enlarges the excess volatility caused by heterogeneous beliefs. When the first effect is dominant, which corresponds to a normal economy, the volatility is lower than without the relative performance concern. Moreover, this paper shows that the relative performance concern also influences investors' holdings, stock prices and risk premia.
Download or read book Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing written by Chishen Wei and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains two essays that use empirical techniques to shed light on open questions in the asset pricing literature. In the first essay, I investigate whether foreign institutional investors affect stock liquidity in domestic equity markets. The evidence indicates that stocks with higher foreign institutional ownership subsequently experience higher liquidity. However, it is difficult to interpret the causal relation of this finding because institutional investors self-select into more liquid stocks. To solve this problem, I exploit a provision in the 2003 US dividend tax cut which extends tax-relief to dividends from US tax-treaty countries but not to dividends from non-treaty countries. This natural experiment suggests a causal link between foreign institutional investors and liquidity. Consistent with the predictions of theoretical models, I find that liquidity improves due to foreign institutional investors increasing information competition. In the second essay, I introduce a new measure of difference of opinion using mutual fund portfolio weights to test prominent competing theories of the effect of heterogeneous beliefs on asset prices. The over-valuation theory (Miller (1977)) proposes that in the presence of short-sale constraints stock prices reflects only the view of optimistic investors which implies lower subsequent returns. Alternatively, neo-classical asset pricing models (Williams (1977), Merton (1987)) suggest that differences of opinions indicate high levels of information uncertainty or risk which implies higher expected returns. My initial result finds no support for the over-valuation theory. Instead, the measure used in this study finds that high differences of opinion stocks weakly outperform low differences of opinion stocks by 2.42% annually which is more consistent with the information uncertainty explanation.
Download or read book Essays on Asset Pricing written by Zheng Sun and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
