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Using monthly CRSP EWRET to build equally weighted portfolios based on market equity and book to value ( SAS)?
I was wondering if it is possible to download the EWRET variable from Wharton in order to construct equally-weighted portfolios and rebalance every June? I have seen a few fancy codes for this ...
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Asset pricing: Is Beta priced or not?
What does it mean in asset-pricing if something is priced or not?
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Fama-MacBeth - Why are factor loadings estimated?
I would like to know why factor loadings in the first step of the Fama-MacBeth procedure are estimated and used as input in the second part.
Thanks!
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SMB risk premium positive in Fama-French three factor model
I performed a Fama-MacBeth procedure on the Three-Factor model. I used 25 portfolios sorted to size and B/M and the longest possible time-line.
When analyzing the coefficients (factor loadings) of ...
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What is the consumption constraint in writing the continuous version of Asset Pricing Model?
In the first chapter of John Cochrane's Asset Pricing textbook, in order to calculate the price in discrete time, we solve the maximization problem of $Max\space E(\Sigma\beta^j U(c_{t+j}))$ when our $...
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Volatility Managed 6 Factor Model (Fama French) - Does it make sense?
after weeks of intense research and in spite of the current situation, I decided to ask the following question to some experts (you):
I would like to develop/investigate a volatility managed six ...
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How to build a Fama & French model based on the international data provided by French?
I am trying to obtain a 3 factor Fama French model based on the "International Research Returns Data" provided on French home page
https://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library....
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Central Pricing Relation CCAPM
I need to understand what to do, when i take the covariance of an expression that looks like this: $\operatorname{cov}_{t}\left(\frac{U_{1}\left(\tilde{c}_{t+1}\right)}{U_{1}\left(c_{t}\right)}, \...
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Derive Q-dynamics of $\ln S_t$ having multiplicative error structure
From Kwon, T. Y. (2012). Three essays on credit risk models and their bayesian estimation (Doctoral dissertation):
Assume the following log equity price model:
$$\ln S_t = g_S(V_t,t,\Theta_V) + Z_T$$...
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Some aspects of the market price of risk
I am a little confused about the market price of risk.
Take the following geometric Brownian motion:
$$dS_t = \mu S_t dt+\sigma S_t dW_t$$
The market price of risk is defined as:
$$\frac{\mu-r}{\...
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Why price with lower volatility yield higher expectation under risk neutral measure
Suppose $S_1$ and $S_2$ are two asset prices, such that, E[$S_1$] = E[$S_2$] under physical measure and $\sigma(S_1)$ > $\sigma(S_2)$. Then why E[$S_1$] < E[$S_2$] under the risk neutral ...
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Risk-neutral price of $H=e^{X_T^1+X_T^3}$
Let $B=(B_t^1,B_t^2,B_t^3)$ a $\mathbb R^3$-valued Brownian motion.
Let $r_t$ (risk free rate) be bounded and deterministic.
Let consider the DISCOUNTED market
$$d\overline X_t^1=\frac52dt+2dB_t^1-...
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Understanding Fama Macbeth Regressions of Returns
I'm trying to understand what the Fama-Macbeth regressions of returns actually mean. The source of confusion is a 2013 Novy-Marx paper, in which he states the following:
"The first specification of ...
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Deriving CAPM from APT framework
I was wondering if it is possible to derive the CAPM from the APT?
My argument is that CAPM basically just is a 1 factor model, where the APT has multiple factors.
Can any of you guys help me?
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Replication of the paper: “A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction”
I recently replicated the paper "A Comprehensive Look at the Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction" and found out that my estimation of the equity premium differs from the data provided ...
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Question is about the data in the paper: “A Comprehensive Look at The Empirical Performance of Equity Premium Prediction”
I would like to ask a question if you download the data from the Amit Goyal website:
http://www.hec.unil.ch/agoyal/
You will see that there are two columns "CRSP_SPvw" "CRSP_SPvwx", they are ...
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Pricing of the compound coupon bond with PDE
I am now studying finance math using Steven E.Shereve's book.
Using Interest Rate models, We can the price for zero-coupon with maturity price $1$ under Hull-White interest rate model[page 274] and ...
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Time of Nasdaq daily close price
On the Nasdaq website It Is stated that the market closes at 4:00pm.
However I have historic intraday minute prices and I can see that that are minutes with prices after 4:00 PM (I am assuming its ...
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Libor to SOFR transition Yield Curve Construction
With the imminent transition from LIBOR to SOFR next year, what are the data points practitioners are using to the yield curve? Also, since LIBOR implicitly took into account credit risk of the ...
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Question regarding No Arbitrage price of a call option
I have a question regarding how to solve the NA price for a slightly modified call option.
Say that I have a money account $B(T)=e^{r(T-t)}$ and a stock dynamic $\frac{dS(t)}{S(t)}=(r-\delta)dt+\...
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How to determine the no arbitrage price of following claim? (change of numeraire)
How do I determine the no arbitrage price for claims such as $min(S_1(T),S_2(T))$ or $max(S_1(T),S_2(T))$? We can consider a standard Black Scholes model. Hence $S_i(T)=S_i(t)e^{(r-\sigma_i^2/2)(T-t)+\...
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What should happen to the equity risk premium as rates change?
Suppose I set forward-looking expected returns for capital markets using a dividend discount model framework, under which expected return for equities is the sum of dividend yield, expected trend ...
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What is market sensitivity and momentum sensitivity?
I have daily data of about 29 stock prices and 1 index prices of past 7 years
I calculated beta as the ratio of covariance(Rm,Ri) / variance(Rm)
I also calculated 200 days rolling momentum score as ...
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A financial market is complete if and only iff there exists a unique equivalent martingale measure
Do you have any intuition behind the following theorem :
A financial market is complete if and only iff there exists a unique equivalent martingale measure.
I understand the easier version of ...
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How do weights of a Mean-Variance optimized portfolio change as the Covariance matrix of the risky assets change?
I am learning a bit more about CAPM, and wanted to know if there was a specific way that weightings of assets in the optimal mean-variance portfolio changed (for constant risk aversion, expected ...
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What does “first-order effect” mean?
In the textbook Asset Pricing by John Cochrane, on p. 25, it says:
"This prediction holds even if the payoff $x$ is highly volatile and investors are highly risk
averse. The reason is simple: if you ...
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is it possible to make changes to use the affine property of Normal random variables, rather than the Central Limit Theorem?
I have proven the distribution of a discrete time model, evolving over a uniform mesh with $\delta t = T/L$ is given by
$$S(t_{i+1}) = S(t_i) + \mu \delta t S(t_i) + \sigma\sqrt{\delta t}S(t_i)Y_i,$$
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Moments of discrete Asset Price Model
Say if B is standard Brownian motion then:
$S(t) = S0e^{((š- Ļ^2)/2)t+ĻB(t)}$
The mean of this SDE would be
$š[š(š”)]=š_0š^{šš”}$
I know to do this you use the density function and ...
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To price Municipal Bonds and risks I want to know the percent of unfunded pension liabilities ($3.8T) to total state and local gov liabilities
Unfunded pension liabilities keep growing and this seems alarming to both pension holders but also Municipal Bond holders.
I would like to know how large this problem is to better price Munis and ...
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How do flat demand curves for stocks allow for price changes?
Many models in asset pricing base their assumptions on a flat demand curve for stocks, as they are viewed as goods with perfect substitutes. With this, I understand that any sort of stock sale or ...
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Using the Fama-Macbeth Process to Test CAPM
Here is my understanding of the Fama-Macbeth process:
Assuming a group of $n$ stocks, we first collect risk profiles $\beta_{i, agg} = [\beta_{i, MKT}, \beta_{i, SMB}, \beta_{i, HML}]$ through ...
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Eliminating factor risk?
Suppose there are two risky assets, related to the same risk factor $f$.
$r_1 = Ī¼_1 + Ī²_1f$
$r_2 = Ī¼_2 + Ī²_2f$
There is also a risk free asset available at $r_f$
How do you eliminate factor risk ...
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How should I interpret the (insignificant) coefficients of Fama-French 3-factor model?
I am writing a mid-term thesis on the Fama-French factor model.
I have built 5 portfolios sorted by the Book-to-Market ratio. The first portfolio is the lowest-BM group and the last portfolio is the ...
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Calculating the fundamental value of house price to separate bubble component from the price
The bubble in asset price is defined as the deviation of the asset value from its fundamentals, empirically Mendoza and Terrones (2008) measure the bubble as the deviation of an asset price from the ...
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Cointegration between prices and dividends. How do I get the following expression?
Actually, I have two questions:
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Let us assume that expected returns are constant. Then, we have the following expression for how the prices should be determined, provided that the operators are ...
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How to price a phoenix and snowball type autocallable options?
I'm currently studying the pricing of autocallable options, especially snowball (accumalated coupon) and phoenix (accumlated coupon, but the coupon may also be autocalled if the underlying price ...
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Gibbons, Ross, Shanken Test derivation by MLE
I Am trying to derive the expression for the GRS test of the CAPM. I am following the book: The Econometrics Of Financial Markets by Campbell, Lo, McKinley (1997).
Define $Z_t$ as an $NĆ1$ vector of ...
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How to model the maturity term of non maturing deposit accounts
My client (bank) currently follows a naive method to model the maturity term of chequing accounts. We need to model the maturity to correctly calculate the FTP pricing of these chequing accounts.
The ...
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Example of complex structured products on FX market?
Lately I have been working a lot with the vol smile and different stochastic volatility models with FX forwards data. Now I want to work with pricing examples through simulations. Can you suggest some ...
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Risk-neutral pricing and statistical arbitrages
I'm studying the martingale approach to asset pricing. Dealing with the concept of risk-neutral probability, I came up with a question about the possibility of "arbitrages in expectation". I'll be ...
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What is the effect of covariance on the dynamics of a price
I want to know how can I see covariance affecting the dynamics of the price of an asset. I understand what the value for covariance and it's sign, but I do not get how it plays in the bigger picture. ...
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Continuous formula for the price of an asset paying one terminal dividend?
I have been trying to come up with ways to come up with an answer for a question we got in my class of "Asset Pricing Theory". The question is as follows:
"Write the price of the asset at time t in ...
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What is the earliest mention of ROE as an asset pricing factor?
Can anyone tell me, what is the first application of ROE in an (empirical) asset pricing model? I am aware of the 2011 paper by Chen, Novy-Marx and Zhang. Are there any earlier papers on the matter?
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Forward Start Spread Options
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We have a spread option with payoff: $\max (P_{T} - HR\times G_T, 0)$, where $P$, $G$ are underlying prices and $HR$ is a constant.
At time zero only contract $G$ is available for ...
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Fama-French 3, Carhart 4, Fama-French 5 Factor models return borderline 0% R2 (max. 6.6%). Time series regression
I am currently working on an industry specific time series analysis of European Equities between 201001 and 201812. I use the European Fama French factor returns (plus the momentum factor return) that ...
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Infinite Binomial Pricing no arbitrage
How to price a contract that pays only 1 at the first stock price drop? The stock follows an infinite binomial with no arbitrage $d<R<u$ condition.
So the probability of the price going down is ...
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Using CFNAI index for identifying sample periods
I'm doing my Thesis on Asset pricing models and I would like to find out the effects of business cycles on the performance of asset pricing models for industry portfolios.
My initial idea was to ...
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Brownian motion for modelling future asset values
Assume that an asset price $S$ is given by a Brownian motion. Argue from the definition why it is not possible to predict future values of the asset based on the past values of $S$.
I am not sure ...
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What happens in the binomial model if the real-world probability is $0$
Consider a binomial model.
Suppose we know that the price of a stock will become a certain value at the next timestep. That is, one of the two outcomes has $0$ real-world probability.
Then it should ...
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How to perform Shanken (1992) correction for errors-in-variables issue?
I have two questions pertaining to the Shanken correction:
The formula of Shanken correction shown in the Cochrane (2001) Asset Pricing book is as follow:
$$\sigma^2(\hat{\lambda}_{OLS})=1/T[(\beta^{...
