Essays about: "Dow Jones Industrial Average"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words Dow Jones Industrial Average.
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1. Black Swan Investments : How to manage your investments when the market is in distress
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för ekonomistyrning och logistik (ELO)Abstract : This study examines how investors can take advantage of Black Swan events by applying an investment strategy that involves investing in stocks that have performed badly during Black Swan events. The stocks are chosen from and compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. READ MORE
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2. Time to purchase your ownhouse : The resistance of housing investments againstmacroeconomic shocks
University essay from KTH/Fastigheter och byggandeAbstract : Housing is both a durable good and an investment vehicle, which makes it importantin people’s daily life aswell as for a nation’s economy. This thesis innovatively applies the Sharpe ratio on evaluating the performance of the US residentialhousing market within the time period from 2005:Q1 to 2019:Q3, andinvestigates how this performance would react upon macroeconomic shocks,including sudden changes in GDP growth rate and personal income growthrate, by establishing a vector auto-regression model with the lag order of four. READ MORE
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3. The Impact of Pandemic Shocks to the Stock Market
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in November 2019, has made a huge impact on the stock market. Thus, this paper aims to analyze how big of an impact the pandemic shocks have compared to other known shocks on the market. READ MORE
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4. Value at Risk and Expected Shortfall risk measures using Extreme Value Theory
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistikAbstract : Calculating risk measures as Value at Risk (VaR) and Expected Shortfall (ES) has become popular for institutions and agents in financial markets. A main drawback with these risk measures is that they traditionally assume a specific distribution, as the Normal distribution or the Student’s t distribution. READ MORE
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5. Evaluating the potential profitability of alpha trading
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to test whether an active trading strategy using historical alpha values (a measure of risk-adjusted excess returns) for stocks can be used to achieve positive risk-adjusted profits. To do so, data on stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index from 1997 to 2018 are used to estimate the market model, using GARCH and TGARCH. READ MORE