Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Market Structure written by James Peter Weston and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Market Structure and Capital Structure written by Sung-Wook Lee and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Markets and Banking written by Xiangyi Xie Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on the Efficiency of Selected Financial Markets written by Fabian Ackermann and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Markets written by Lu Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays. The first essay studies the ability of stock return idiosyncrasy to predict future economic conditions over time. The second essay investigates the technological innovation and creative destruction during the 1920s and the 1930s, one of the most innovative periods in the 20th century. The third essay tests the performance of an investment strategy using information about past market-wide comovement. Stock return idiosyncrasy, defined as the ratio of firm-specific to systematic risk in individual stock returns, contains information about future growth rate in real GDP, industrial production, real fixed assets investment, and unemployment. Forecasts are generally significant one-quarter-ahead, particularly after World War II. These effects persist after controlling for other potential leading economic indicators, both in-sample and out-of-sample. These findings are consistent with information generating firms, presumably uniquely well-informed about economic conditions because their core business is information, adjusting their information production before downturns. The second essay studies the process of creative destruction during the technological revolution in the 1920s and 1930s. Intensified creative destruction magnifies the performance gap between winner and loser firms, and thus elevates firm-specific stock return variation. We find high firm-specific return variation in innovative industries and firms during the 1920s boom and the subsequent depression. We also find some evidence of elevated firm-specific return variation in manufacturing sectors with higher labor productivity, more research staff and more extensive electrification. In the third essay, we define the directional market-wide comovement measure as the proportion of stocks moving up together. Positing that high comovement reflects large fund inflows, we devise an investment strategy of entering the market whenever positive directional market-wide comovement passes a certain threshold. Specifically, this comovement-based investment strategy holds the market index when the market-wide upward comovement in the prior one to four weeks is above the fourth decile of the historical comovement distribution, and invests in the risk-free asset otherwise. During the sample period of 1954 to 2014, this strategy outperforms the NYSE value-weighted market index by 6.42% per year. Out of sample tests using NASDAQ stocks and TSE stocks validate the strategy. Our findings suggest that marketwide upward comovement identifies periods of market run-ups, when unsophisticated investor buying is apt to be driven by herding or information cascades.
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Economics written by Harry Charles DeAngelo and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Market Prediction written by Yan Liu (Emory University Graduate Student.) and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Market Micro structure written by Robert Scott Neal and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Frictions in Financial Markets written by Yifei Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Market Structure and Trading Behavior written by Hao-Chen Liu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Markets written by Andrey G. Zagorchev and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third essay examines the impact of government ownership and financial markets on corporate governance using 1327 firms from fourteen EU countries in the period 2003 to 2008. The results show that aggregate government ownership measured through privatization and financial markets lead to improvements in the corporate governance practices of firms.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Consequences of Financial Market Frictions written by Andrada Bilan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Markets The Bright Side of Financial Derivatives Options Trading and Firm Innovation written by Iván Blanco and published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do financial derivatives enhance or impede innovation? We aim to answer this question by examining the relationship between equity options markets and standard measures of firm innovation. Our baseline results show that firms with more options trading activity generate more patents and patent citations per dollar of R&D invested. We then investigate how more active options markets affect firms' innovation strategy. Our results suggest that firms with greater trading activity pursue a more creative, diverse and risky innovation strategy. We discuss potential underlying mechanisms and show that options appear to mitigate managerial career concerns that would induce managers to take actions that boost short-term performance measures. Finally, using several econometric specifications that try to account for the potential endogeneity of options trading, we argue that the positive effect of options trading on firm innovation is causal.
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Economics written by Lei Feng and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Financial Market Regulation in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis written by Margit Münzer and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in Financial Economics written by Ian Wright and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores various empirical financial phenomena. The first chapter presents evidence suggesting long-term uncertainty may be one reason firm activity has been slow to recover from the Great Recession. I show the current level of uncertainty and expectations of future uncertainty -- that is, the entire term structure of uncertainty -- are negatively correlated with firm investment rates. I present a simple model generating these effects through real options channels. Using equity options to obtain forward-looking estimates of firm and aggregate uncertainty at different horizons, I then show that both the level and slope of the term structure of uncertainty have negative conditional correlations with capital investment rates, consistent with the model. Numerically, a one standard deviation increase in firm (aggregate) uncertainty over the next 30 days correlates with a decrease in firm capital investment equal to 5.1% (1%) of the mean firm investment rate over the next quarter. A one standard deviation increase in firm (aggregate) uncertainty over the next year relative to the next 30 days correlates with a decrease in firm capital investment equal to 3.1% (4.4%) of the mean firm investment rate over the next quarter. I also find the correlation between both the level and slope of the term structure of uncertainty and R\ & D to be positive, supporting the theory that firms invest in growth options in the face of uncertainty. I discuss identification in this context and the particular relevance of my findings for government policy. The second chapter is co-authored with Ana Gomez Lemmen-Meyer and Enrique Seira. We establish four stylized facts about firm financing in private credit markets using a unique, comprehensive database of corporate loans in Mexico. First, firms receive a lower interest rate upon moving from one bank to another. Second, banks' pricing behavior toward their customers exhibits the "lock-in effect": firms' interest rates increase the longer they stay in a lending relationship with the same bank. Third, in a market where asymmetric information between banks has been mitigated, banks appear to compete for the highest quality borrowers and there is little evidence of adverse selection among switching firms. In fact, borrowers that switch banks appear to be of higher average quality than similar borrowers that do not. Fourth, firms that change lenders receive other more favorable lending terms after the change of lenders than they had prior to the change. These take the form of longer maturity loans and less required collateralization, providing positive evidence related to the hypothesis that banks compete for firms not just on interest rates, but also through other lending channels, and that firms switch banks to improve their lending terms. We document how these facts differ by firms' size, and note that the Mexican commercial credit market is really two markets: one for credit to large firms and one for credit to small firms. Finally, we explain how specific policies may have led to the environment giving rise to these stylized facts, discuss the implications of our findings for models of relationship lending and firm banking, and present a simple model rationalizing our results. The final chapter is co-authored with Todd Mitton and Keith Vorkink. In it we explore what may drive financial "bubbles" in speculative markets. Speculative behavior plays a key role in financial markets, but little is known about its causes. We test for neighborhood effects on speculative behavior using lottery sales data, allowing us to disentangle the effects of investor enthusiasm and information transmission. In a sample of 160,000 retailers, per capita lottery sales in a given census block increase by $0.26, on average, when per capita lottery sales increase by $1 in neighboring blocks. Exogenous variation in geographic barriers to interaction between neighbors suggests that the results may be driven largely by social interaction. Our analysis demonstrates a link between social interaction, investor enthusiasm, and speculative behavior that has important implications for financial markets, and may explain why financial bubbles occur.
Download or read book Three Essays on Network Peer Effects on Firms and Financial Markets written by Bahman Fathi Ajirloo and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays that address recent topics in corporate finance that concern for scholars, policymakers, and investors. Main body of this dissertation has been developed based on the "nexus of contracts" theory of the firm which in recent years has sparked renewed debates on the motivation underlying firm size and boundary. The first essay explores a network of interconnected firms and examines the impact of the firm's relationships with peers, rivals, and customers on its capital structure, and how the firm's revealed peers influence its financing decisions. We demonstrate that industry classification approach is fraught with measurement error, and instead implement an alternative peer identification scheme that designates peer groups as those explicitly disclosed by managers to shareholders. The results contrast with previous studies that find only weak evidence for peer effects on capital structure. We find that peer effects are particularly strong when focal firms have persistent rivals, in the sense of supplying common customers for at least two consecutive years. While constructing the firm's actual network poses a challenge, the new approach can lead to more real-world insights about firm behavior. In the second essay, I approach to a challenging version of peer effects model with firm's and peer's multinomial decision outcome as endogenous and financial fundamentals as exogenous explanatory variables. I show that managers do not set dividend policy independently and they are significantly under the influence of few self-disclosed diverse competitors rather than industry peers. The test results show that firm's dividend change actions are significantly correlated with past dividend actions of its peers and it is highly predictable for the next period. I also investigate and report marginal effects of firm's and peers' different endogenous and exogenous determinants on the outcome decision variable for example a peer group with an overall dividend increase action in the past 180 days, increases the chance of the dividend increase in the focal firm. Considering the market capitalization of dividend paying firms, the identified marginal effects and prediction of the cash distribution are economically meaningful and important. In the third essay, I propose a new approach to model and measure intangible value of the firm as the joint of network feature and book value of the firm. Despite the growing importance, the empirical asset pricing research has struggled to evaluate the effects of intangible assets on firms' market value. Utilizing characteristics of the firm network, I propose a network-centric value factor to replace the under-performing traditional value factor (HML) in a series of asset pricing factor model. I show that the new value factor portfolio provides stronger performance in all periods of the sample. I also explore short and long strategies to better understand effects of the networks on value of the firms. Initial findings emphasize that asset pricing studies should adjust the factor models by including intangible network value of the firm.
