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48 results for share returns

This thesis identifies share buybacks and predicts their impact on stock performance.

problem Recognizing and predicting the impact of share buybacks on stock performance.
method NLP approaches for automated detection of share buybacks, machine learning models for prediction.
result Most companies underperform after a share buyback, but some significantly outperform.

This paper extends liquidity returns in geometric mean markets to time-varying weights.

problem Understanding returns and no-arbitrage prices in geometric mean markets with time-varying weights.
method Extending known results for constant-weight G3Ms to the general case of G3Ms with time-varying and potentially stochastic weights.
result LP shares can replicate the payoffs of financial derivatives and various trading strategies.

Study examines value relevance of oil and gas reserve disclosures in London Stock Exchange.

problem Uncertainty in oil and gas reserves poses accounting challenges for investors.
method Empirical analysis using archival data and multifactor framework.
result Changes in reserves and their components are associated with share returns, but insignificantly due to oil price and longitudinal effects. Quality of disclosures positively impacts share returns.

The paper introduces return parity for fairness in MDPs, addressing delayed and adverse effects.

problem Fairness in MDPs for dynamic domains with delayed and adverse effects.
method Proposes return parity, decomposes return disparity, and develops algorithms for state visitation distributional alignment.
result The proposed algorithms can successfully close the disparity gap while maintaining policy performance.

Study how transaction costs impact stock returns and holdings in equilibrium.

problem Impact of quadratic transaction costs on equilibrium stock returns and holdings.
method Developed a continuous-time risk-sharing model with FBSDEs to characterize equilibrium stock holdings and trading rates.
result Equilibrium stock holdings and trading rates are uniquely determined by FBSDEs, and equilibrium return by a system of coupled FBSDEs.

Sparse portfolio strategy from mutual funds' favorite stocks in China A share market.

problem Building a sparse portfolio from mutual funds' favorite stocks in a market with limited fund information.
method Analyzed mutual fund favorite stocks, used portfolio optimizer with constraints, and compared different methods.
result Sparse portfolios consistently outperform the benchmark index 930950.CSI.

Extends return risk measures to multiple assets, proving properties and comparing different risk models.

problem Evaluating risk in financial markets with multiple assets.
method Develops multi-asset return risk measures (MARRMs), analyzes their properties, and compares them with other risk models.
result Proves that a positively homogeneous MARRM is quasi-convex if and only if it is convex, and provides conditions to avoid inconsistent risk evaluations.

Wealth tax equivalent to government stake, affecting returns and portfolio choice.

problem Effect of proportional wealth tax on asset returns and portfolio choice.
method Analyzes the economic equivalence and multiplicative separability of wealth tax, deriving four main results.
result The coefficient of variation of wealth is invariant to the tax rate, and optimal portfolio weights are independent of the tax rate.

A new model optimizes portfolios by learning stock return distributions conditioned on factors.

problem Optimizing portfolios with high-dimensional asset-specific factors.
method Conditional Diffusion Transformer architecture linking each asset's return to its factor vector.
result The model outperforms benchmarks in mean-variance and mean-CVaR optimization.

We study how trading costs are reflected in equilibrium returns. To this end, we develop a tractable continuous-time risk-sharing model, where heterogeneous mean-variance investors trade subject to a quadratic transaction cost. The corresponding equilibrium is characterized as the unique solution of a system of coupled…

2017-07-26abs ↗pdf ↗

For researching the association between coal enterprise management and return in financial market, this paper applies the method of time difference relevance and PageRank method to seek the leader-index of a stock set containing 21 coal enterprises in A-share market and score those stocks. Based on the return in 2011, …

2012-11-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified market-based description of returns and variances of trades.

problem Market-based variance of trades and market portfolio.
method Unified market-based approach to describe returns and variances of trades and market portfolio.
result Market-based variance accounts for random volumes of trades and differs from Markowitz's portfolio variance.

A new model decomposes equity returns and volatilities into memory components.

problem Understanding long-term equity dynamics and volatility patterns.
method Proposes a multivariate generalization of the variance ratio to decompose long-horizon equity dynamics.
result Identifies a five-factor model capturing persistent, antipersistent, and multi-scale memory in returns and volatility.

New methods improve uncertainty in machine learning predictions for asset returns.

problem Uncertainty in machine learning predictions for asset returns.
method Developed new methods to construct forecast confidence intervals for expected returns from neural networks.
result Neural network forecasts of expected returns have the same asymptotic distribution as classic nonparametric methods, enabling standard error calculation.

This paper uses DRL for long-short portfolio optimization, improving risk-adjusted returns.

problem Traditional portfolio optimization limits diversification by excluding short-selling.
method Developed a DRL framework with a short-selling mechanism for continuous trading.
result DRL model with short-selling achieves superior risk-adjusted returns.

Empirical study of CAPM and Fama-French model in Chinese A-share market.

problem Testing and validating CAPM and Fama-French model in Chinese A-share market.
method Used Fama-MacBeth regression and Fama-French three-factor model to analyze Chinese A-share trading data from 2000 to 2019, adjusting for IPO shell value contamination.
result Fama-French model captures most of A-share market returns, with adjusted R-squared > 0.88.

A new framework forecasts stock trends by mining shared information from concepts.

problem Forecasting stock trends using static concept information limits accuracy.
method Proposes a graph-based framework that mines concept-oriented shared information from both predefined and hidden concepts.
result Improves stock trend forecasting performance through dynamic concept relevance and hidden concept information.

Software helps finance students construct optimal portfolios using VBA.

problem Finding the best portfolio of assets considering risk and return.
method Two methods: Markowitz and El-Khatib-Hatemi-J, both optimizing risk-adjusted return.
result Software constructs all possible portfolios and helps investors choose the best one.

This paper uses cointegration to identify profitable pair-trading strategies for Indian stocks.

problem Finding profitable pair-trading opportunities in Indian stock market.
method Cointegration analysis to identify co-movement stocks, forming pairs, evaluating portfolios.
result Pairs from auto and realty sectors generally yielded the highest returns, while IT sector pairs had negative returns.

American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) are exchange-traded certificates that rep- resent shares of non-U.S. company securities. They are major financial instruments for investing in foreign companies. Focusing on Asian ADRs in the context of asyn- chronous markets, we present methodologies and results of empirical analysi…

2016-10-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a machine-learning framework for optimal share repurchase hedging.

problem Challenges in hedging share repurchase programs due to market regulations and trading activity.
method Machine-learning framework that optimizes execution and hedging of share repurchase programs.
result Substantial performance improvements and an optimized hedging approach.

Study finds investor sentiment has a significant positive relationship with stock returns in Moroccan and Tunisian markets.

problem Investor sentiment and stock returns relationship in Moroccan and Tunisian markets.
method Used indirect measures of investor sentiment (SENT and ARMS) and Granger causality tests.
result Sentiment has a significant positive relationship with stock returns, but not the other way around.

We provide direct evidence of market manipulation at the beginning of the financial crisis in November 2007. The type of manipulation, a "bear raid," would have been prevented by a regulation that was repealed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in July 2007. The regulation, the uptick rule, was designed to preve…

2011-12-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Markowitz simplified portfolio returns assuming constant trade volumes.

problem Understanding portfolio returns and variance in markets with variable trade volumes.
method Investor observes market trades, models portfolio as single security, derives portfolio return and variance.
result Markowitz's equation for portfolio returns and variance is a simplified approximation of real markets with constant trade volumes.

There is convincing evidence showing that the probability distributions of stock returns in mature markets exhibit power-law tails and both the positive and negative tails conform to the inverse cubic law. It supports the possibility that the tail exponents are universal at least for mature markets in the sense that th…

2010-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

Modern deep reinforcement learning methods have departed from the incremental learning required for eligibility traces, rendering the implementation of the λλ-return difficult in this context. In particular, off-policy methods that utilize experience replay remain problematic because their random sampling of minibatch…

2018-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Quantum kernels show no advantage in stock return prediction, but differ in stability metrics.

problem Determining if quantum kernels improve stock return prediction.
method Controlled horse race on Chinese A-share market with identical training subsamples and tuning budgets.
result Quantum kernels do not outperform classical RBF controls in cross-sectional stock return prediction.

A new method is proposed to obtain the risk neutral probability of share prices without stochastic calculus and price modeling, via an embedding of the price return modeling problem in Le Cam's statistical experiments framework. Strategies-probabilities Pt0,nP_{t_0,n} and PT,nP_{T,n} are thus determined and used, respective…

2013-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

A theory which describes the share price evolution at financial markets as a continuous-time random walk has been generalized in order to take into account the dependence of waiting times t on price returns x. A joint probability density function (pdf) which uses the concept of a Lévy stable distribution is worked out.…

2003-10-15abs ↗pdf ↗

New EPS insurance offers partial protection against superannuation losses.

problem Lack of efficient investment insurance for superannuation holders.
method Developed a new financial derivative, equity protection swap (EPS), and derived a fair pricing formula.
result EPS can be an efficient investment insurance tool for superannuation accounts.

We build a simple diagnostic criterion for approximate factor structure in large cross-sectional equity datasets. Given a model for asset returns with observable factors, the criterion checks whether the error terms are weakly cross-sectionally correlated or share at least one unobservable common factor. It only requir…

2016-12-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances stock return prediction using LLMs and hybrid models.

problem Insufficient use of semantic information and alignment of LLMs with stock features.
method LG model with three strategies for global information modeling and SCRL for embedding alignment.
result Superior performance in Rank Information Coefficient and returns compared to models relying only on stock features.

Global fixed income returns span across multiple maturities and economies, that is, they naturally reside on multi-dimensional data structures referred to as tensors. In contrast to standard "flat-view" multivariate models that are agnostic to data structure and only describe linear pairwise relationships, we introduce…

2019-08-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Despite significant progress, deep reinforcement learning (RL) suffers from data-inefficiency and limited generalization. Recent efforts apply meta-learning to learn a meta-learner from a set of RL tasks such that a novel but related task could be solved quickly. Though specific in some ways, different tasks in meta-RL…

2019-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles budget allocation for multiple campaigns using a novel combinatorial bandit approach.

problem Maximizing cumulative returns with limited budgets across various ad lines.
method Formulated as a multi-task combinatorial bandit problem, integrates Bayesian hierarchical models, and uses Thompson sampling.
result Demonstrates robustness and adaptability in maximizing overall cumulative returns.

Market-based portfolio variance measures risks using trade data.

problem Measuring portfolio risks using traditional methods ignores trade volume randomness.
method Uses time series of trades with securities and portfolio to assess variance.
result Portfolio variance can be decomposed into securities' contributions, accounting for trade volume randomness.

Analyzes financial return distributions over various time scales.

problem Understanding the changing nature of financial return distributions over time.
method Modeling return distributions using power-law, stretched exponential, and q-Gaussian functions.
result The 'inverse-cubic power-law' is still a good fit for short-term returns, but market dynamics are more complex.

DECAT framework evaluates multimodal models for shared biology, detecting confounders and false positives.

problem Determining if multimodal models learn shared biology or just confounders.
method DECAT framework classifies multimodal representations into four diagnostic scenarios using null-referenced metrics.
result DECAT detects confounders and false positives in multimodal models, improving with larger cohorts and stronger representations.

Hierarchical AI multi-agent framework optimizes equity portfolios in China's A-share market.

problem Optimizing equity portfolios in China's A-share market using AI and multi-agent systems.
method A hierarchical multi-agent design integrating macro, firm-level, and reinforcement learning approaches.
result Consistently outperforms benchmarks and state-of-the-art systems on risk-adjusted returns and drawdown control.