Essays about: "Cross-section of stock returns"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words Cross-section of stock returns.
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1. How Does the Three-factor Model Perform and What Explains its Performance? Empirical tests on Swedish stock portfolios
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionenAbstract : In this study the three-factor model of Fama and French (1992; 1993) is evaluated on portfolios of Swedish stocks. Both a cross-section and time series approach are used to evaluate the model. The results show that beta, size, and book-to-market are significant variables in explaining excess returns of Swedish stock portfolios. READ MORE
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2. The Performance of Stocks Earning Extreme Single-Day Returns: Evidence from Sweden
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : In 2011, Bali et al. presented evidence that stocks with extreme one and multi day-returns significantly underperform stocks with less extreme returns in the following month. They attributed this to investors exhibiting a preference for stocks with lottery-like payoffs. READ MORE
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3. Momentum and Trend in Sweden: Enhancing profits and limiting downside risk by using indicators from different time horizons
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate SchoolAbstract : Although being one of the most robust anomalies ever discovered, the momentum factor occasionally suffer big losses during market recessions periods. We apply and compare different factor models, and find that when sorting the momentum factor on prior 2-6 months it earns a higher average monthly return compared to the common sorting on prior 2-12 months. READ MORE
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4. Asset growth and the cross-section of stock returns: Evidence from Nordic equity markets
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : We investigate the relationship between firm year-on-year percentage change in total assets and subsequent stock returns in Nordic equity markets. Asset growth rates are strong predictors of future stock returns and hold for firm capitalization. Of particular interest, the asset growth effect is present among large capitalization Nordic stocks. READ MORE
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5. Industry Anomalies: An examination of asset pricing anomalies through an industry-specific framework
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : The finance literature has discovered a large number of anomalies in the cross-section of stock returns over the past three decades. This thesis examines whether some of the most robust anomalies also appear within industries, and whether some are more prominent than others within specific industry sectors. READ MORE