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Measuring Thematic Funds Performance via an Approach Based on Observable and Latent Factors
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates whether thematic equity funds deliver abnormal performance relative to conventional global equity funds. Using Fama‐French models augmented with latent factors, we estimate fund‐level alphas, and apply the false discovery rate methodology to an estimated three‐group mixture distribution, separating good, null and bad ...
Maria Debora Braga +2 more
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A U‐Shaped Flow–Performance Sensitivity Across the Globe
European Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a worldwide sample of equity mutual funds, we document a new stylized fact: the flow‐performance sensitivity (FPS) is greater for both bottom and top performance, compared to the middle. This “U‐shaped” FPS is especially strong in down markets, for small/mid‐cap funds, and in the latest decade. These results hold over quarterly or yearly
Markus Broman, Kelley Bergsma Lovelace
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REGE Revista de Gestão, 2007 Nas últimas décadas, o modelo CAPM tem despertado grande interesse na comunidade científica. Apesar das críticas, o aprimoramento do CAPM estático, que dá origem a novos modelos dinâmicos, traz maior segurança para o investidor ao longo do ciclo de ...
Elmo Tambosi Filho +2 more
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Risk Perceptions and Corporate Financing Behavior
Financial Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using a recently developed measure of financial market risk perceptions, we show that risk perceptions affect firm‐level corporate financing behavior. Firms tend to adjust their capital structures to cater to investors' appetite for risk. When perceived risks are low, firms tend to choose more leveraged capital structures to take advantage of ...
Youngmin Choi +2 more
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Does the Conditional CAPM Work? Evidence from the Istanbul Stock Exchange [PDF]
This paper tests whether the conditional CAPM accurately prices assets utilizing data from the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) over the time period from February 1997 to April 2008. In our empirical analysis, we closely follow the methodology introduced in
Nuri Ersahin, Atakan Yalcýn
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Market Uncertainty, Investor Sentiment, and the Beta Premium
Financial Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper provides new insights into how time‐variation in the beta premium is related to popular measures of market uncertainty and sentiment; specifically, the CBOE's VIX and the sentiment index of Baker‐Wurgler (2006). We show that the beta premium: (1) increases nonlinearly with uncertainty, rising significantly only when VIX exceeds a ...
Naresh Bansal, Chris Stivers
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A Quantile Model of Firm Investment
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Are firms risk averse? We propose a dynamic model of firm investment under uncertainty that captures firms' risk attitudes through quantile preferences. The firm maximizes its present value, defined as current profits and investment plus the discounted value of the τ$\tau$‐quantile of its value next period.
Heitor Almeida +3 more
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Household portfolio allocation and stock market beliefs: Evidence from Japanese households
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We analyze data from the Keio Household Panel Survey (KHPS) to investigate how individuals' beliefs about financial markets influence current and planned asset holdings. Our results reveal statistically and economically significant relations between specific beliefs and both present asset allocations and accumulation.
Raslan Alzuabi, Daniel Gray
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Does Beta Explain Global Equity Market Volatility – Some Empirical Evidence
Contemporary Economics, 2013 The purpose of this study is to assess the diversification benefits resulting from international asset allocation. In this study, we examine Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in its international context (ICAPM) using the monthly equity returns for 26 ...
Radosław Kurach
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Are CSR incidents truly bad news?
Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.Abstract We revisit whether disclosures of negative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) incidents adversely affect firms' stock prices. While univariate tests reveal significant negative abnormal returns around incident announcements, the effect disappears once firm characteristics, industry, and time‐fixed effects are controlled for.
Chen Chen +2 more
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