Download or read book Essays on Stock Return Predictability and Portfolio Allocation written by Bradley Steele Paye and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Handbook of the Economics of Finance written by George M. Constantinides and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-02-08 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 11 articles in this first of two parts, top scholars summarize and analyze recent scholarship in corporate finance. Covering subjects from corporate taxes to behavioral corporate finance and econometric issues, their articles reveal how specializations resonate with each other and indicate likely directions for future research. By including both established and emerging topics, Volume 2 will have the same long shelf life and high citations that characterize Volume 1 (2003). - Presents coherent summaries of major finance fields, marking important advances and revisions - Describes the best corporate finance research created about the 2008 financial crises - Exposes readers to a wide range of subjects described and analyzed by the best scholars

Download or read book Handbook of the Economics of Finance SET Volumes 2A 2B written by George M. Constantinides and published by Newnes. This book was released on 2013-01-21 with total page 1732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set of 23 articles authoritatively describes recent scholarship in corporate finance and asset pricing. Volume 1 concentrates on corporate finance, encompassing topics such as financial innovation and securitization, dynamic security design, and family firms. Volume 2 focuses on asset pricing with articles on market liquidity, credit derivatives, and asset pricing theory, among others. Both volumes present scholarship about the 2008 financial crisis in contexts that highlight both continuity and divergence in research. For those who seek insightful perspectives and important details, they demonstrate how corporate finance studies have interpreted recent events and incorporated their lessons. - Covers core and newly-developing fields - Explains how the 2008 financial crises affected theoretical and empirical research - Exposes readers to a wide range of subjects described and analyzed by the best scholars

Download or read book Three Essays on the Predictability of Stock Returns written by Amit Goyal and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENTS IN HONOUR OF MOSTAFA EMAMI written by London Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society and published by MOSTAFA EMAMI. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC AND MANAGEMENTS IN HONOUR OF MOSTAFA EMAMI Mostafa Emami’s work on the history of economic and management thought has been provoking debate for over one decades. This book brings together key contributions of recent years, in addition to some brand new pieces, including an extensive Article often neglected arguments for government intervention in the economy to correct market failures, and his critical view of the business class as an anti-social force. If you are interested in political economy and have some grounding in the subject matter then Emami’s essays make for engaging, essential reading, concludes Nick Taylor. essays in economic and management and managements in honour of mostafa emami: Collected Essays IV. Mostafa Emami’s. Rutledge. January 2013. Find this book: Mostafa Emami’s first volume of Collected Essays is, by all means, a book for those already acquainted with the history of economic and management thought. It is the work of an author who has such familiarity with his subject matter that each essay reads with the assumption of a thorough grounding in the subject. Mostafa Emami (PHD ECO.FIN) has been a Member Talent of Young Researchers and Elite Club (since 2010) and a Member of the Iran's National Elites Foundation (since 2012), and Research Fellow of Centre for Scientific Cooperation & Elite Affairs, Iran's Ministry of Defence, where he was promoted to Study in Doctor of Philosophy in field of financial behaviour from Michigan Technological University in 2013.He served as a graduate at "Tarbiat Modares University " from 2010 to 2012. He has carved out a vast area of expertise on the classical economists and his list of publications is dizzying in length. What has made him so influential is his possession of a renowned fighting spirit in the development of an of ten-controversial perspective of the subject matter. Fortunately for the reader, and certainly for the student of economic and managements, this means his papers consist of a set of clearly argued and lively debates on the classical economic and managements canon. This volume, which presents work from roughly the last decade, covers new fields of economists . One of his skills is his ability to make sense of the evolution of thought across such a daunting time-scale, and this collection demonstrates this quality admirably. This same attribute, however, is where much of the controversy surrounding his work lies. ,Publications,Profitability,Developing Country,United States,Cross Section,Economic Growth,Time Series,Interest Rate,Empirical Evidence,Case Study,Panel Data,Exchange Rate,Decision Making,Stock Returns,Monetary Policy,Indexation,Stock Market,Empirical Study,Human Capital,Competitive Advantage,Empirical Analysis,Stock Price,Business Cycle,Asset Prices,Satisfiability,International Business,Risk Aversion,Labor Market,Growth Rate,International Trade,Financial Market,Firm Performance,Supply Chain,Economic Development,Empirical Research,New Products,Design Methodology,Transaction Cost,Information Technology,Corporate Governance,Unit Root,Service Quality,Performance Measure,Economic Theory,Capital Market,Theoretical Model,Small Firms,Customer Satisfaction,Statistical Significance,Cash Flow,United Kingdom,Technological Change,Foreign Direct Investment,Public Good,Firm Size,Strategic Management,Asymmetric Information,Capital Structure,Supply Chain Management,Public Policy,Organizational Learning,Market Structure,Option Pricing,Term Structure,Property Rights,Conceptual Framework,Political Economy,Life Cycle,Rational Expectation,Utility Function,Market Share,Private Information,Decision Maker,New Technology,Time Varying,Dynamic Model,Instrumental Variable,Survey Data,Resource Based View,Data Collection

Download or read book Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Christian Funke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 123 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 Essays in Financial Economics written by Francisco Jose Guedes dos Santos and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that examine various problems in financial economics. Chapter 1 fills in a gap in the IPO literature by documenting a close connection between IPO underpricing and the long-term underperformance of IPOs. Firms going public in periods of low underpricing do not underperform in the long run, while firms going public in high underpricing periods do. Furthermore, IPOs in later stages of high underpricing periods underperform even relative to their offer prices, which suggests that many of the most "underpriced" IPOs are in fact priced above fundamental value. This result is unlikely to be explained by differences in risk, or to be driven by a peso problem. I also find that firms going public in later stages of high underpricing periods display worse operating performance and profitability, lower asset growth, lower investment rates and higher cash holdings. Finally, I provide evidence that investor sentiment is stronger in high-underpricing periods. These results are consistent with a setting in which low quality firms, in periods in which the average underpricing in the market is high, try to exploit investors' sentiment by going public. Chapter 2 looks at the return predictability information in Single Country Closed-End Fund (SCCEF) discounts. It is long argued that discounts in closed-end funds are caused by differences in sentiment between investors that trade the fund and investors that trade the underlying assets. SCCEFs provide an interesting setting given the clear market segmentation. American SCCEFs are priced by American investors, while underlying assets are mainly traded by investors in the respective country. I argue that if cross-sectional and time-series variation in SCCEFs are linked to differences in sentiment, then the SCCEF discount can be used to predict future performance of SCCEFs, international stock markets, or both. The evidence on international stock markets' return predictability using SCCEF discounts is mixed. A trading strategy designed to exploit potential differences in sentiment by buying and selling international stock indices delivers alphas of around 90bps per month in an International CAPM. Adding three extra factors: value, size and momentum in U.S. equity does not change the result. However, once we control for international value and momentum in stock markets, we no longer observe positive alphas for short-horizon investments. The evidence on SCCEF return predictability from SCCEF discounts is very strong. For all three asset pricing models considered, a strategy that exploits differences in sentiment yields positive alphas, with magnitudes ranging from 2% to 4% per month. In Chapter 3, I investigate how the stock market reacts to earnings surprises announced during major sport events in the U.S. In a rational and frictionless market, investors should not react differently to announcements released during sport events. However, major sport events combine two known psychological biases. First, sports can be distracting, impairing investors' judgment. Second, sports can change people's mood. Hence, through these biases, market prices could be affected. Considering the Super Bowl, World Series of Baseball and NBA finals I find that investors, immediately after sport events, underreact to positive surprises, and overreact to negative surprises in earnings. After this initial reaction, I find that, investors undo their 'mistakes' in the following weeks to the announcement. However, for the most negative and positive surprises, they over-compensate. In this study, I show that non relevant financial events have an impact on market prices. Moreover, I show that the observed impact cannot be explained only by limited attention, as investor mood seems to be crucial to explain investors' reactions.

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Download or read book Handbook of Portfolio Construction written by John B. Guerard, Jr. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-12-12 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portfolio construction is fundamental to the investment management process. In the 1950s, Harry Markowitz demonstrated the benefits of efficient diversification by formulating a mathematical program for generating the "efficient frontier" to summarize optimal trade-offs between expected return and risk. The Markowitz framework continues to be used as a basis for both practical portfolio construction and emerging research in financial economics. Such concepts as the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), for example, provide the foundation for setting benchmarks, for predicting returns and risk, and for performance measurement. This volume showcases original essays by some of today’s most prominent academics and practitioners in the field on the contemporary application of Markowitz techniques. Covering a wide spectrum of topics, including portfolio selection, data mining tests, and multi-factor risk models, the book presents a comprehensive approach to portfolio construction tools, models, frameworks, and analyses, with both practical and theoretical implications.