Download or read book Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing written by Yen-cheng Chang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner identification. Stocks are assigned to indices based on their end-of-May market capitalizations. Stocks ranked just below 1000 are in the Russell 2000. The indices are value-weighted so these stocks receive index buying whereas those just above 1000 have close to none. Using this random assignment, we find price effects for both additions and deletions.
Download or read book Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing written by Yen-cheng Chang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies find price increases for additions to the S&P 500 index but no decreases for deletions. Additions come with good earnings news, suggesting these studies are not just measuring an indexing effect. We develop a regression discontinuity design using Russell Indices for cleaner identification. Stocks are assigned to indices based on their end-of-May market capitalizations. Stocks ranked just below 1000 are in the Russell 2000. The indices are value-weighted so these stocks receive index buying whereas those just above 1000 have close to none. Using this random assignment, we find price effects for both additions and deletions.
Download or read book Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market Indexing written by Yen-Cheng Chang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russell 1000 and 2000 stock indices comprise the first 1000 and next 2000 largest firms ranked by market capitalization. Small changes in the capitalizations of firms ranked near 1000 move them between these indices. Because the indices are value-weighted, more money tracks the largest stocks in the Russell 2000 than the smallest in the Russell 1000. Using this discontinuity, we find that additions to the Russell 2000 result in price increases and deletions in price declines. We then identify time trends in indexing effects and the types of funds that provide liquidity to indexers.
Download or read book Regression Discontinuity and the Price Effects of Stock Market written by Yen-Chen Chang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Price Effect of Passive Investing on Stock Markets written by Matthias Bryner and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The strong shift from active to passive investing during the last decade confirmed the attractiveness of this investment style to investors. However passive investing may also lead to undesirable market distortions, if stocks are no longer bought based on their fundamentals but because they are part of an index. In this paper we address this concern by analysing the stock returns of companies that are added to and deleted from the popular Russell 2000 Index from 2007 to 2017. The use of a regression discontinuity design, which was first apply by Chang, Hong and Liskovich (2014)in the context of index reconstitution, allows for clean identification of price effects at the index cut-off. For companies that are added to the Russell 2000 Index we find no significant price effects, whereas for companies that are deleted from the index we find significant price effects until around 2014, which afterwards diminished. To conclude, this paper refutes the hypothesis that the increased amounts of passive investment led to increased price distortions. On the contrary, markets seem to have become more efficient during this period.
Download or read book Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World written by Yishay Yafeh and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using newly-constructed data covering the last decade, we document that, in most of forty markets, when added to the main index, firms’ returns experience an increase in comovement with the rest of the index, reflected in higher beta and greater explanatory power of the market return. Stock turnover and analyst coverage also typically increase upon inclusion. Using various tests, we find the demand-based view of comovement (the category/habitat theories of Barberis, Shleifer and Wurgler, 2005) to provide a good explanation for many of our findings. Some results, though, suggest that information-related factors are also important in explaining the increased comovement.
Download or read book Essays on the Effects of Index Trading on Asset Prices written by Joseph DeCoste and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first essay, I explore whether excess demand in commodity futures markets affects the spot price of oil. I use a sign restricted vector autoregressive oil market model that explicitly includes futures markets. This model allows for the detection of futures demand effects which feedback into spot prices through a price signaling channel, in contrast to previous studies relying solely on an inventory channel. I find novel evidence that excess demand in futures markets drives over half of the short run variation in the spot price of oil, and can explain puzzling incidents of oil price behavior such as the 2008 boom and bust in oil prices and the 2014 oil price crash. I find that this relationship is much stronger after 2003, the period commonly associated with a rise in financialization and commodity index investment. In the second essay, I test for the existence of excessive comovement amongst stocks in the S\&P 500. Using a fuzzy regression discontinuity approach, I show that membership in the S\&P 500 leads to significant positive excess comovement in the long term. I evaluate a traditional, liquidity based explanation and a friction based explanation, and find no evidence that liquidity drives excess comovement. I show that the lack of evidence for excess comovement shown in Chen, Singal, Whitelaw (2016) is due to heterogeneous effects on newly included firms versus established members. One potential explanation is that investors take time to fully integrate the new stock into the group immediately after inclusion, reducing observed increases in comovement in the short term. Another is that firm inclusion is related to a change in fundamentals. These results constitute new evidence of frictions when exposed to large classes of traders with correlated, non-fundamental demands, such as those populating the S\&P 500. In the third essay, I test for the existence of excess coskewness amongst stocks in the S\&P 500. Using a combination of event study and fuzzy regression discontinuity approaches, I show that membership in the S\&P 500 leads to significant negative excess coskewness in the long term, but positive excess coskewness in the short term, pointing to important transitory effects of inclusion that differ from persistent long term effects. These coskewness results point to price distortions caused by index membership, with implications for both market and allocative efficiency, and diversification benefits.
Download or read book Empirical Asset Pricing written by Wayne Ferson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the theory and methods of empirical asset pricing, integrating classical foundations with recent developments. This book offers a comprehensive advanced introduction to asset pricing, the study of models for the prices and returns of various securities. The focus is empirical, emphasizing how the models relate to the data. The book offers a uniquely integrated treatment, combining classical foundations with more recent developments in the literature and relating some of the material to applications in investment management. It covers the theory of empirical asset pricing, the main empirical methods, and a range of applied topics. The book introduces the theory of empirical asset pricing through three main paradigms: mean variance analysis, stochastic discount factors, and beta pricing models. It describes empirical methods, beginning with the generalized method of moments (GMM) and viewing other methods as special cases of GMM; offers a comprehensive review of fund performance evaluation; and presents selected applied topics, including a substantial chapter on predictability in asset markets that covers predicting the level of returns, volatility and higher moments, and predicting cross-sectional differences in returns. Other chapters cover production-based asset pricing, long-run risk models, the Campbell-Shiller approximation, the debate on covariance versus characteristics, and the relation of volatility to the cross-section of stock returns. An extensive reference section captures the current state of the field. The book is intended for use by graduate students in finance and economics; it can also serve as a reference for professionals.
Download or read book Corporate Governance Strengthening Latin American Corporate Governance The Role of Institutional Investors written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report reflects long-term, in-depth discussion and debate by participants in the Latin American Roundtable on Corporate Governance.
Download or read book That Doesn t Work Anymore written by Robert S. Kricheff and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic measures and concepts like GDP, inflation, business cycles and supply chains that were created decades ago are being disrupted and altered by technology. These changes affect asset values, interest rates, stock valuations, barriers to entry, as well as regression and correlation analysis. That Doesn’t Work Anymore discusses how to adapt traditional data to these changes and outlines ways to use newer and better tools that help you make good investment and business decisions. The book's short pragmatic chapters grouped by topic with research and real-life anecdotes delve into how technological and societal developments have changed the meaning and value of traditional economic data-points, predictive tools, and business concepts. Robert S. Kricheff provides specifics on new and more valuable data sources as well as better methods for applying the information to investing, business, and even your career.
Download or read book Boombustology written by Vikram Mansharamani and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new, fully-updated edition of the respected guide to understanding financial extremes, evaluating investment opportunities, and identifying future bubbles Now in its second edition, Boombustology is an authoritative, up-to-date guide on the history of booms, busts, and financial cycles. Engaging and accessible, this popular book helps investors, policymakers, and analysts navigate the radical uncertainty that plagues today’s uncertain investing and economic environment. Author Vikram Mansharamani, an experienced global equity investor and prominent Harvard University lecturer, presents his multi-disciplinary framework for identifying financial bubbles before they burst. Moving beyond the typical view of booms and busts as primarily economic occurrences, this innovative book offers a multidisciplinary approach that utilizes microeconomic, macroeconomic, psychological, political, and biological lenses to spot unsustainable dynamics. It gives the reader insights into the dynamics that cause soaring financial markets to crash. Cases studies range from the 17th Century Dutch tulip mania to the more recent US housing collapse. The numerous cross-currents driving today’s markets—trade wars, inverted yield curves, currency wars, economic slowdowns, dangerous debt dynamics, populism, nationalism, as well as the general uncertainties in the global economy—demand that investors, policymakers, and analysts be on the lookout for a forthcoming recession, market correction, or worse. An essential resource for anyone interested in financial markets, the second edition of Boombustology: Adopts multiple lenses to understand the dynamics of booms, busts, bubbles, manias, crashes Utilizes the common characteristics of past bubbles to assist in identifying future financial extremes Presents a set of practical indicators that point to a financial bubble, enabling readers to gauge the likelihood of an unsustainable boom Offers two new chapters that analyze the long-term prospects for Indian markets and the distortions being caused by the passive investing boom Includes a new foreword by James Grant, legendary editor of Grant's Interest Rate Observer A comprehensive exploration of how bubbles form and why they burst, Boombustology, 2nd Edition is packed with a wealth of new and updated information for individual and institutional investors, academics, students, policymakers, risk-managers, and corporate managers alike.
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.
Download or read book The Index Effect on Stock Prices and Trading Volumes written by Wei Huang 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 Investment Management Stewardship and Sustainability written by Iris H-Y Chiu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together thought leadership from academia and leading figures in asset management in key global jurisdictions, to pool together insights regarding the transformative visions and challenges for modern investment management, as well as best practices that realise the policy objectives in regulation and soft law. The world of investment management is being challenged by new legal, regulatory and soft law developments to demonstrate that their practices cohere with the long-term needs of the saving population as well as public interest needs in financing global sustainability and social development. The chapters in this book uniquely bring together the views of academia and practice on the key developments that can transform the law and practice of investment management, including the EU's new sustainable finance reform package, the UK Stewardship Code 2020, and developments in the US regarding the fit between fiduciary law for investment management and modern sustainability concerns. The book brings together the best of both worlds–critical thoughtful perspectives from academia and qualitative insight from the investment management industry. It will be of interest to researchers in law, investment management, business and management, practitioners in the investment management industry and their legal advisers, and policy-makers in the EU, UK and beyond who are grappling with the appropriate governance paradigms for bringing about more sustainable outcomes globally.
Download or read book Advances in Behavioral Economics and Finance Leadership written by Julia Puaschunder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores human decision-making heuristics. The monograph studies how nudging and winking can help citizens to make rational choices and governments to create choice architectures that aid in stabilizing markets and flourishing society. By applying the behavioral economics approach to political outcomes, it demonstrates how economics can be employed for personal benefits but also foster the greater societal good. A review of the current literature on human decision-making advantages and failures in Europe and North America opens the book. A wide range of nudges and winks is presented that aid to curb the harmful consequences of human decision-making fallibility. Awareness of mental heuristics and biases in the finance domain is strengthened in order to understand how to nudge people to benefit from economic markets but also help governments to stabilize economies in providing strategic market communication. The author also proposes concrete leadership and followership directives on nudging in the digital age. This book appeals to scholars and policy makers interested in rational decision-making. The behavioral perspective features the strategic use of nudging and winking in the digital age. The second revised and expanded edition offers the newest insights on behavioral e-Economics and the latest developments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers topics such as the role of social media in finance and discrimination in searchplace competition. It also offers new insights on strategic leadership and smart followership directives to successfully navigate through complex and fast-paced e-architectures.
Download or read book Behavioral Economics and Finance Leadership written by Julia Puaschunder and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores human decision-making heuristics and studies how nudging and winking can help citizens to make rational choices. By applying the behavioral economics approach to political outcomes, it demonstrates how economics can be employed for the greater societal good. It starts with a review of the current literature on human decision-making failures in Europe and North America, presenting the wide range of nudges and winks developed to curb the harmful consequences of human decision-making fallibility. It then discusses the use of mental heuristics, biases and nudges in the finance domain to benefit economic markets by providing clear communication strategies. Lastly, the author proposes clear leadership and followership directives on nudging in the digital age. This book appeals to scholars and policy makers interested in rational decision-making and the use of nudging and winking in the digital age.
Download or read book Payout Policy written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dividend policy continues to be among the premier unsolved puzzles in finance. A number of theories have been advanced to explain dividend policy. This e-book briefly reviews the principal theories of payout policy and dividend policy and summarizes the empirical evidence on these theories. Empirical evidence is equivocal and the search for new explanation for dividends continues.
