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Empirical Essays on Cross-sectional Asset Pricing and Institutional Investors
Author: Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Weike XuPublisher:
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Category : Institutional investors
Languages : en
Pages : 93
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This dissertation includes two essays. The first essay examines how changes in ownership breadth affect the profitability of 21 anomaly-based strategies. I find that the profitability of these strategies is weaker following a growth in ownership breadth in the prior quarter. The return pattern is primarily attributed to the insignificant returns in the short portfolios. In addition, reduction in short-sale constraints due to increase in the ownership breadth can explain the insignificant return in the short portfolio. The conclusions stay the same after controlling for the common risk factors including the Fama-French three factors and the momentum factor. My results are robust to different size groups, different portfolio weighting methods, an alternative measure of active institutional investors and cross-sectional regression tests. These findings indicate that active institutional investors improve market efficiency. In the second essay, I examine how the relaxation of short-sale constraints affects the readability in financial disclosures using a natural experiment. From 2005 to 2007, the SEC implemented a pilot program in which one-third of the Russell 3000 stocks were randomly selected as pilot stocks and were exempted from short-sale price tests. I find that the readability of 10-K reports for the pilot stocks significantly decreases during the program period. Moreover, the relation between a reduction in short-sales constraint and annual report readability is not uniform in the cross-section. I find that the results are more pronounced for firms that are smaller, less profitable or riskier; for firms that have lower institutional ownership or analyst coverage; and for firms with worse corporate governance or corporate social responsibility. I conclude that Regulation SHO leads to lower readability in the context of financial disclosures.
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Chishen WeiPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 170
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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.
Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Turan G. BaliPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118589475
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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“Bali, Engle, and Murray have produced a highly accessible introduction to the techniques and evidence of modern empirical asset pricing. This book should be read and absorbed by every serious student of the field, academic and professional.” Eugene Fama, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences “The empirical analysis of the cross-section of stock returns is a monumental achievement of half a century of finance research. Both the established facts and the methods used to discover them have subtle complexities that can mislead casual observers and novice researchers. Bali, Engle, and Murray’s clear and careful guide to these issues provides a firm foundation for future discoveries.” John Campbell, Morton L. and Carole S. Olshan Professor of Economics, Harvard University “Bali, Engle, and Murray provide clear and accessible descriptions of many of the most important empirical techniques and results in asset pricing.” Kenneth R. French, Roth Family Distinguished Professor of Finance, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College “This exciting new book presents a thorough review of what we know about the cross-section of stock returns. Given its comprehensive nature, systematic approach, and easy-to-understand language, the book is a valuable resource for any introductory PhD class in empirical asset pricing.” Lubos Pastor, Charles P. McQuaid Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Empirical Asset Pricing: The Cross Section of Stock Returns is a comprehensive overview of the most important findings of empirical asset pricing research. The book begins with thorough expositions of the most prevalent econometric techniques with in-depth discussions of the implementation and interpretation of results illustrated through detailed examples. The second half of the book applies these techniques to demonstrate the most salient patterns observed in stock returns. The phenomena documented form the basis for a range of investment strategies as well as the foundations of contemporary empirical asset pricing research. Empirical Asset Pricing: The Cross Section of Stock Returns also includes: Discussions on the driving forces behind the patterns observed in the stock market An extensive set of results that serve as a reference for practitioners and academics alike Numerous references to both contemporary and foundational research articles Empirical Asset Pricing: The Cross Section of Stock Returns is an ideal textbook for graduate-level courses in asset pricing and portfolio management. The book is also an indispensable reference for researchers and practitioners in finance and economics. Turan G. Bali, PhD, is the Robert Parker Chair Professor of Finance in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. The recipient of the 2014 Jack Treynor prize, he is the coauthor of Mathematical Methods for Finance: Tools for Asset and Risk Management, also published by Wiley. Robert F. Engle, PhD, is the Michael Armellino Professor of Finance in the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, Director of the New York University Stern Volatility Institute, and co-founding President of the Society for Financial Econometrics. Scott Murray, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He is the recipient of the 2014 Jack Treynor prize.
Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Wenqing WangPublisher:
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Category : Investments
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Essays in Asset Pricing and Institutional Investors
Author: Qi ShangPublisher:
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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.
Three Essays on Empirical Cross-sectional Asset Pricing
Author: Shuwen YangThree Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Amir AkbariPublisher:
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Languages : en
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"This thesis explores the role of borrowing frictions, exchange rate risk, and intertemporal demand in stock prices across international financial markets. Specifically, I study how global asset prices are governed, considering the constraints and incentives that investors face when making investment decisions. The first essay adds a new dimension to the research on the dynamics of global market integration, providing an explanation for reversals in market integration via funding illiquidity. I show that when funding capital dries out, investors, unable to borrow and trade freely, fail to facilitate the integration process. Therefore, international asset prices during these periods are explained more by country-specific asset pricing factors than by global asset pricing factors. The second essay explores the role of exchange rate risk and intertemporal demand in international markets. These sources of risk are linked via the interest rate channel and are both likely proxies of the state variables that affect asset prices over time. We carefully disentangle the two risk factors and study the international equity market indices with multiple risk factors in a large cross-section through time. We show that the evidence of global pricing of risk crucially hinges on pooling assets with substantial cross-sectional variation. The third essay introduces a methodological innovation to study the dynamics of the compensation for the intertemporal risk in business cycles. Specifically, we contribute to the empirical asset pricing literature by studying the relative importance of prices of intertemporal risk during recessions, recoveries, and expansions." --
Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Author: Dimitrios NteventzisPublisher:
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This dissertation consists of three essays on empirical asset pricing. In the first paper, we examine the impact of test criteria in identifying true asset pricing factors. We focus on the Sharpe ratio and pricing performance improvement. While both criteria are exposed to model misspecification, we find that pricing performance criteria are inferior as their performance is driven by estimation bias. Through an empirical application, we demonstrate the impact of the criteria on the subset of selected factors. In the second paper, we study the cross-section of corporate bonds by utilizing a large set of financial statements, equity and bond characteristics. We use a predictive regression framework and the adaptive Lasso to choose the most relevant characteristics. Applying the adaptive Lasso, we find a ten-factor model, with value, bond reversal, and equity momentum spillover being the dominant factors. We evaluate the economic benefits of investing according to the predictions of the adaptive Lasso and find significant benefits in terms of absolute and risk-adjusted returns. In the third paper, we evaluate the ability of U.S. corporate bond fund managers to generate alpha. We apply the False Discovery Rate (FDR) to distinguish between "skill" and "luck". We find that long-term out-performance remains elusive, with only 1% of the funds able to generate significant alpha over their life. However, fund managers can generate alpha over the short-term, with the proportion of skilled funds increasing to 13.5% when we examine three-year sub-periods.
Essays in Cross-sectional Asset Pricing
Author: Scott Hogeland CederburgPublisher:
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Category : Risk
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Empirical evidence broadly supports our model's predictions, as higher dispersion, idiosyncratic volatility, and credit risk firms display lower exposure to long-run risk along with higher firm-specific risk. Lastly, in the third chapter, we examine asset-pricing anomalies at the firm level. Portfolio-level tests linking CAPM alphas to a large number of firm characteristics suggest that the CAPM fails across multiple dimensions. There are, however, concerns that underlying firm-level associations may be distorted at the portfolio level. In this paper we use a hierarchical Bayes approach to model conditional firm-level alphas as a function of firm characteristics. Our empirical results indicate that much of the portfolio-based evidence against the CAPM is overstated. Anomalies are primarily confined to small stocks, few characteristics are robustly associated with CAPM alphas out of sample, and most firm characteristics do not contain unique information about abnormal returns.