Essays about: "Exposure Puzzle"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words Exposure Puzzle.
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1. Fund Managers' Awareness of Announcement Premiums: A Study on Fund Managers' Investment Decisions
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : In this paper, we interview fund managers of actively managed Swedish mutual funds to understand how they trade around earnings announcements. Based on an academic paper that we use as the basis for our paper, the authors of the paper find that fund managers on average tend to decrease their exposure to stocks ahead of earnings announcements, even though there is a significantly increased risk-reward and earnings announcement premium to earn ahead of the announcements. READ MORE
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2. The Swedish Value Premium and Disasters: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper examines the value premium puzzle in Sweden for the period 2002 - 2016 and attempts to explain the puzzle by accounting for time-varying risk exposure with the inclusion of a proxy for financial disasters risk. The value premium is one of the most persistent financial anomalies and the reasons for its existence have been a hot topic for debate over the past years, with more recent research suggesting that it is a form of compensation for higher exposure to harsh economic downturns, or disasters. READ MORE
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3. Currency Controls' Consequences for Companies
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper aims to study the implications of the implementation and relaxation of currency controls in Argentina for multinational firms, using a case study on Ericsson Argentina. Firstly, a qualitative analysis is conducted covering the impacts of currency controls for firms with foreign exchange exposure, ways to cope with the restrictions, and implications of the relaxation. READ MORE
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4. Resolving the Exchange Rate Puzzle
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper aims to contribute to the current discussion on the effects of exchange rate exposure on firm value. Particularly, it makes an attempt to resolve the exchange rate puzzle, a phenomenon based on the ambiguous results derived from existing literature. READ MORE
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5. The Exposure Puzzle Revisited on the U.S. Stock Market
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This thesis reexamines the exposure puzzle by studying the presence of foreign exchange rate exposure in the U.S. stock market using firms included in the S&P 500 index as of February 2013, and a methodology that attempts to address issues in previous literature. READ MORE
