Download or read book Three Essays on Global Stock Markets written by Mengmeng Dong (Professor of finance) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation consists of three sole-authored essays that study global stock returns. The first one “Global Anomalies” estimates the aggregated return predictability of 117 U.S. anomalies across 40 countries. These anomaly variables generate substantial return predictability when they are aggregated within the same category as defined in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) using composite measures. Combining all six categories of anomaly variables into one single composite measure, a global hedge portfolio generates an average equal (value)-weighted monthly return of 2.15% (1.20%) with a t-statistic of 9.22 (4.66). These results highlight the importance of using composite measures to summarize the information contained in individual anomaly variables. My dissertation consists of three sole-authored essays that study global stock returns. The first one “Global Anomalies” estimates the aggregated return predictability of 117 U.S. anomalies across 40 countries. These anomaly variables generate substantial return predictability when they are aggregated within the same category as defined in Hou, Xue, and Zhang (2015) using composite measures. Combining all six categories of anomaly variables into one single composite measure, a global hedge portfolio generates an average equal (value)-weighted monthly return of 2.15% (1.20%) with a t-statistic of 9.22 (4.66). These results highlight the importance of using composite measures to summarize the information contained in individual anomaly variables. In the third chapter “The Impact of Price Limits on Stock Volatility and Price Delay: Evidence from China”, I focus on the Chinese stock market and study how market interventions affect price behaviors. To overcome challenge in identification, I first match firms by characteristics and use difference-in-difference methodology to establish causality. Exploring a Special Treatment policy in China, I show that 5-basis-point tightening in daily price limits (from ±10% to ±5%) significantly reduces annualized volatility by 6.5 basis points (t =5.00) yet increases price delay by 63% from the previous year (t =7.40). Trading activity and liquidity significantly decrease under new limits but return increases by an equal-weighted average of 27% (t = 3.22) in 12 months. Evidence suggests that in the long-run price limits are effective in reducing volatility and improving firm value yet causing delayed price discovery and lower liquidity.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Chinese and International Stock Markets written by Jasmine Jie Chen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Stock and Bond Markets written by DongJoon Jeong and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Markets written by Cagdas Tahaoglu 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 financial markets that concern for scholars, policymakers, and investors. The first essay examines the benefits of international diversification for US investors, while accounting for market development, corporate governance, market cap effects, and structural change across countries over period August 1996 -July 2013. Improved risk adjusted returns are obtained from a diversified portfolio consisting of a mix of developed and emerging countries. Additionally, we find that diversification benefits are not significant for most of the small-cap foreign assets when an investor already holds position in corresponding countries large-cap assets. Diversification benefits based on the governance effectiveness of a country's companies are not ubiquitous. We find that economically significant improvements in risk-return performance can be attained by adding large caps of developed countries with high and low overall Governance Metrics International (GMI) ratings and large and small caps of emerging countries with low overall GMI ratings to the investment universe containing the assets of common law developed countries. However, diversification benefits are economically significant only for large and small caps of low GMI emerging countries when short selling is not allowed. The second essay looks at the market impact of recent regulatory changes in Canada that provide for trading halts on individual stocks that experience large upside or downside movements. The focus is on all stocks traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange since the inception of the single stock circuit breaker rule (SSCB) in February 2012, to replace the short-sale uptick rule. The results support pricing efficiency: material information that caused the circuit breaker is incorporated in stock prices on the day of the halt (neither overreaction nor underreaction), with no decline in market liquidity. Using trade-by-trade data constructed on 5-minute trading intervals, we refine the daily results, and show that shocks in realized volatility are focused in the ten-minute trading interval surrounding the halts. While circuit breakers provide a limited "safety net" for investors when their stocks are subject to severe volatility, they do not provide for a quick turnaround for stocks experiencing severe price decline events. The last essay re-examines the historical vs implied volatility spread anomaly, reported by Goyal and Saretto (2009) using a second-order stochastic dominance (SSD) criterion. The approach incorporates transaction frictions, and is robust to model specification problems, return distributions, as well as preferences. It is found that option trading frictions such as cash collateral requirements and option trading costs significantly reduce but do not eliminate returns to a long-short straddle trading strategy pre-2006 period. However, the anomaly disappears after 2006, consistent with market efficiency. The SSD test results confirm the findings.

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 Three Essays on Financial Markets written by Pawan Jain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is composed of three essays. The first essay investigates the information content of the limit order book (LOB) on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE), a purely order-driven market, for predicting future stock price volatility. We find that the LOB supply schedule consistently and significantly predicts the future price volatility. But this predictive power of LOB declines during the extreme market wide movements. We also find that buy orders are more informative over future price volatility than sell orders but sell (buy) orders becomes more informative during the extreme market wide down (up) movement days. Finally, we document that predictive power of LOB is short lived and markets are efficient over the longer time horizon. The second essay examines the effect of high frequency trading on market quality, systemic risk and trading strategies. In 2010 the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the largest exchange headquartered outside the US, introduced a new trading platform, Arrowhead, which reduced latency by 99.97% and increased co-located high-frequency trading from zero to 36% of volume. Arrowhead improved market liquidity and reduced volatility, but it also amplified systematic risks factors like quotes to trade ratio, order-flow autocorrelation and cross correlation, and tail risks. Arrowhead also affected trading strategies by increasing trade price predictability and the use of fleeting orders. Cost of immediacy serves as a channel through which reduced latency affects market quality, systematic risks, and trading outcome. The third essay analyzes the links between corporate finance policies and investment clienteles by comparing the cross-sectional variation in the dividend payout policies of companies across 32 countries. Beyond the impact of firm-specific accounting and financial variables, this study investigates how the country level variations: shareholder demand due to demographic variations and consumption needs, agency problems manifested in the extent of minority shareholder protection and business disclosures, and market quality in terms of transparency and liquidity; affect dividend payout policies. We find that firms have generous dividend payout policies when diverse shareholder demands are strong, extents of business disclosures and legal protections are weak, and the market qualities are poor. The empirical evidence supports the presence of strong dividend clienteles in a global setting. .

Download or read book Three Essays on Financial Instability of Emerging Stock Markets written by Thi Bich Ngoc Tran and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Information Volatility and Crises in Equity Markets written by Shane K. Clark and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay 3 investigates the relation between proxies for investor sentiment and stock market crises and recoveries on international indices. Using an Early-Warning-System (EWS) model, the essay examines whether investor sentiment is a useful predictor for the occurrence of stock market crises and early signs of recovery. Three alternative proxies are used to measure investor sentiment, including previously cited measures of stock market riskiness, investors' risk aversion and investors' optimism about stock markets. The results show that investor sentiment is overall a significant predictor of the occurrence of crises within a one year period, and that the addition of sentiment into early warning signal models of stock market crises can improve the predictive performance of the model (increases in investor sentiment increase the probability of occurrence of a crisis, which is in line with previous contributions finding a negative lead-lag relation between sentiment and stock returns). The extension of the model to early signs of recoveries also shows that sentiment is a reliable predictor. The measure of stock market riskiness (Baker and Wurgler, 2006) is found to be a better predictor than the Volatility Index (VIX) and the Put-to-Call Ratio (PCR). The cross-country comparison results confirms the literature findings that the link between sentiment and stock market returns varies across indices and cultures, as the predictive power of the variable appears strongest in the French and U.S. indices.

Download or read book Three Essays on Stock Market Dynamics written by Peng Chen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Long run Stock Market Behavior written by Steffen Reichold and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Intervention Interest Rates and Charts written by Mr.Mark P. Taylor and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1991-11-01 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper contains essays on sterilized intervention, on covered interest rate parity, and on chartist analysis in financial markets. Each essay contains a definition, brief survey of the empirical evidence and overall assessment of each topic.

Download or read book Essays on Financial and International Economics written by Xiaojing Su and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays. Chapter II investigates the dynamic relationship between stock returns and volume. I develop a new framework in which investors maximize their expected utility by optimally placing limit orders in the market. Because these limit orders differ in prices and quantities, transactions may occur at different prices during each trading period, and the instantaneous demand may not equal the instantaneous supply. Multiple trading periods may be necessary for stocks to reach equilibrium. A Mini-Exchange platform has been developed to simulate the trading process of the model. One outcome from the simulation suggests that, during periods of price adjustment, relatively low trading volume predicts a large absolute value change in future price. Empirical estimation by Zou (2007) shows that relatively low past trading volume indicates a relatively large price movement in the future. Her finding is consistent with the prediction of the model. In Chapter III, I measure the out-of-sample stock return predictability based on past price information. In particular, I use several nonlinear models to address the possible nonlinearity-in-mean predictability; I also adopt economic criteria, in addition to commonly used statistical criteria, to evaluate the forecasting performance. For thirteen major international stock markets, growth stocks appear to be more predictable than the general stock markets and value stocks, especially when evaluated with economic criteria. This novel finding is robust to a number of robustness checks. Overall, my results suggest that stock prices do not follow a random walk. Chapter IV in this dissertation turns to the effect of an aging problem in China on the real exchange rate of China. China is undergoing significant demographic changes as its population is aging and will become the biggest country that ages before getting rich. In this chapter, I extend the small open economy model with demographics and life-cycle dynamics (Faruqee 2002) by including a non-tradable sector. The simulation results show that a real appreciation exists in the Chinese exchange rate in the future. Another important finding is that the GDP per capita and consumption per capita will be lower than the case without the aging problem.

Download or read book Three Essays on Pricing and Volume Distributions of Cross listed Stocks written by Jing Wang and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation provides empirical evidences in global cross-listed stocks trading volume and pricing. The first essay documents the global trading volume distribution of cross-listed stocks and examines factors that make a host market competitive in attracting order flows from the counterpart domestic market. The results show that host markets are more successful in attracting trading volume when they have a higher information factor, have lower bid-ask spreads, provide better investor protection and information disclosure, share the common language or legal origin with the counterpart home markets and locate closer to the home market. The second essay investigates the market competitiveness among rival host markets based on a unique sample of global firms simultaneously cross-listed in multiple foreign countries. I present the global cross-listings and trading volume distributions cross host-home markets as well as over time, and provide robust evidences that host markets are more successful in attracting trading volume from other competing markets when they have lower bid-ask spreads, better legal protection, more market liquidity, higher level of financial development, and where the firms with longer listing history. Interesting, I consistently find that host countries with English common law origins are able to attract trading volume while French civil law origin host countries attract less trading activities. The third essay investigates the cross-listed stock price discovery process. I use synchronous trading data and the error correction model to find that prices on the home and the U.S. markets are co-integrated and mutually adjusting. The price adjustment in response to price disparity happens in both the home market and the U.S. (host) market. In most cases, domestic prices are dominant for the price discovery. However, I also observe a statistically significant amount of feedback from the U.S. markets. The greater the competition offered by the U.S. market, represented as larger U.S. proportion of trading volume, more informative U.S. share price, more liquidity, better legal protection and closer to the home market, the more price adjustment from domestic side toward the U.S. price.

Download or read book Three Essays on International Finance written by Keun Yeong Lee and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on International Capital Markets written by Zhou Fan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dissertation, I study several topics in international capital markets. Chapter 1 is a joint project with Matthew Baron and Jamil Rahman. We find evidence that large credit expansions interacted with rapid price run-ups have strong forecasting power for negative future returns. Growth stocks, stocks with high levels of analyst disagreement, and highly leveraged stocks are particularly vulnerable to the bust, with their respective factor portfolios significantly underperforming compared to their unconditional means. We show that by avoiding stocks with extreme exposures to the credit cycle, investors can partially mitigate the risks induced by a credit-fueled bubble. Given the strong predictive power of credit-fueled stock market booms for market crashes and factor portfolio spreads, Chapter 2 asks how institutional investors trade during these events. We find no evidence that institutional investors sell stocks in countries experiencing credit-fueled stock market booms. Domestic institutional investors are aggressive net buyers during booms while foreign investors are more cautious. Institutional investors buy growth stocks up to the boom's peak but do not sell them after the peak. They also increase (decrease) their portfolio allocation towards low leverage (high leverage) stocks both before and after the peak of the credit-fueled stock market boom. This suggests that institutional investors are mindful of the risks credit booms pose, even if they increase their overall allocation towards a country experiencing a credit-fueled stock market boom. In Chapter 3, I show that gravity variables capture country level differences in exposure to global shocks. Currencies of countries which are geographically distant and culturally different have larger differences in exposure to global shocks and as such comove less. The explanatory power of gravity for currency comovement is also present in trade flows and financial linkages. Predicted values of trade flows and foreign debt holdings contain around 80% of the explanatory power of gravity variables for currency comovement.

Download or read book Three Essays on International Finance and Macroeconomics written by Hiroyuki Ito and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in International Trade and Investment written by Ting Gao and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: