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48 results for stock market returns

Study finds mixed evidence of monthly stock market anomalies in Turkey and US.

problem Investigating whether stock markets exhibit abnormal returns monthly.
method Statistical summary analysis, decomposition technique, dummy variable estimation, binary logistic regression.
result Weak evidence against efficient market hypothesis on monthly returns, with notable May effect in Turkey.

Study examines how COVID-19 affected stock and crypto market efficiency.

problem Impact of COVID-19 on market efficiency of different asset classes.
method Analysis of price returns, absolute returns, and volatility increments in stock and cryptocurrency markets.
result Market efficiency varied by asset class and market, with some time series showing gradual decline over time.

China's stock market is the largest emerging market all over the world. It is widely accepted that the Chinese stock market is far from efficiency and it possesses possible linear and nonlinear dependence. We study the predictability of returns in the Chinese stock market by employing the wild bootstrap automatic varia…

2016-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds long memory in some emerging Asian stocks but not in developed markets.

problem Evaluating stock market efficiency in emerging vs developed markets.
method Improved wavelet estimator of long range dependence.
result Emerging Asian markets show more long memory in stock returns than developed markets.

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 ↗

Research shows SBP's tone impacts stock market returns positively or negatively.

problem Impact of State Bank of Pakistan's monetary policy communications on stock market.
method Sentiment analysis and high frequency stock market returns analysis.
result Positive or negative tone in SBP communications affects stock returns positively or negatively.

Regression Trees analyze stock returns, revealing market excess return as the most informative factor.

problem Understanding informational content of three factors in stock returns.
method Joint regression tree analysis of daily stock return data for 5 major US corporations.
result The market excess return factor is always the most informative in all cases (solo and joint).

The study explains stock return distributions using reaction functions.

problem Stock return distributions often deviate from normal distributions.
method Assumes normal event/information effects, financial over/underreaction, proposes reaction function model.
result Financial markets often underreact to minor events, overreact to significant ones, and react stronger to positive events.

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.

The paper analyzes return distribution of Chinese stock market indices over various time scales.

problem Understanding return distribution properties of Chinese stock markets.
method Systematic analysis of 1-min to 4000-min composite index datasets from 2005-2021.
result Return distribution properties are similar to mature markets, with distinct behavior at different time scales.

Network analysis improves stock return forecasting.

problem Improving stock return forecasting using network properties.
method Network analysis of stock return correlations, using individual and global properties of stocks.
result 50% improvement in R2 score for long-term stock returns forecasting, 3% for short-term.

In this paper we provide compelling evidence of cyclical mean reversion and multiperiod stock return predictability over horizons of about 30 years with a half-life of about 15 years. This implies that the US stock market follows a long-term rhythm where a period of above average returns tends to be followed by a perio…

2012-03-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Wide class of elliptically contoured distributions is a popular model of stock returns distribution. However the important question of adequacy of the model is open. There are some results which reject and approve such model. Such results are obtained by testing some properties of elliptical model for each pair of stoc…

2019-07-24abs ↗pdf ↗

EXAMM evolves RNNs for stock return prediction and portfolio trading.

problem Predicting stock returns for optimal portfolio trading.
method Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search (EXAMM) for evolving RNNs.
result Evolving RNNs outperform traditional benchmarks in stock trading.

Price fluctuations of commodities like cotton and wheat are thought to display probability distributions of returns that follow a Lévy stable distribution. Recent analysis of stocks and foreign exchange markets show that the probability distributions are not Lévy stable, a plausible result since commodity markets have …

2002-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds significant premium for low-beta stocks in firm-level idiosyncratic return distributions.

problem Understanding the role of common idiosyncratic quantile factors in asset pricing.
method Quantile factor analysis to extract common idiosyncratic quantile factors with asymmetric pricing effects.
result Significant premium for innovations to the lower-tail factor: high-beta stocks outperform low-beta stocks by around 7-8% per year.

Study shows negative stock returns after Moroccan companies issue profit warnings.

problem Impact of profit warnings on stock returns in Moroccan market.
method Event study methodology, analyzing Casablanca Stock Exchange, 2009-2016.
result Negative average abnormal return after profit warning announcements, greater for qualitative than quantitative warnings.

This paper examines the possibility of using derivative-implied risk premia to explain stock returns. The rapid development of derivative markets has led to the possibility of trading various kinds of risks, such as credit and interest rate risk, separately from each other. This paper uses credit default swaps and equi…

2010-05-30abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a finite-dimensional version of the quantum model for the stock market proposed in [C. Zhang and L. Huang, A quantum model for the stock market, Physica A 389(2010) 5769]. Our approach is an attempt to make this model consistent with the discrete nature of the stock price and is based on the mathematical for…

2012-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Skewness dispersion predicts future stock market returns, especially in months with monetary policy announcements.

problem Predicting future stock market returns using skewness dispersion.
method Cross-sectional analysis of firm-level realized skewness and stock market returns.
result Skewness dispersion is a significant predictor of future stock market returns, robust to various estimation methods.

Using a rolling windows analysis of filtered and aligned stock index returns from 40 countries during the period 2006-2014, we construct Granger causality networks and investigate the ensuing structure of the relationships by studying network properties and fitting spatial probit models. We provide evidence that stock …

2015-07-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study compares cryptocurrency and stock markets using statistical equilibrium models.

problem Comparing the stochastic structure of cryptocurrency and stock markets.
method Applied QRSE model to analyze daily returns of cryptocurrencies and S&P 500 companies.
result Revealed differences in informational efficiency between cryptocurrency and stock markets.

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.

We shortly review the statistical properties of the escape times, or hitting times, for stock price returns by using different models which describe the stock market evolution. We compare the probability function (PF) of these escape times with that obtained from real market data. Afterwards we analyze in detail the ef…

2008-10-08abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we address one of the main puzzles in finance observed in the stock market by proponents of behavioral finance: the stock predictability puzzle. We offer a statistical model within the context of rational finance which can be used without relying on behavioral finance assumptions to model the predictabil…

2019-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Study finds physical momentum portfolios in Indian stock market yield higher returns than benchmarks.

problem Determining abnormal returns for physical momentum portfolios in the Indian stock market.
method Constructed physical momentum portfolios for daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly timescales, evaluated historical returns and risk profiles.
result Daily time scale physical momentum portfolios showed the strongest reversal with a 16-fold profit.

It is known that the impact of transactions on stock price (market impact) is a concave function of the size of the order, but there exists little quantitative theory that suggests why this is so. I develop a quantitative theory for the market impact of hidden orders (orders that reflect the true intention of buying an…

2008-04-24abs ↗pdf ↗

News novelty predicts negative stock market returns.

problem Negative stock market returns due to increased news novelty.
method Quantified news novelty using entropy measure from recurrent neural network applied to a large news corpus.
result Entropy exposure carries a negative risk premium, indicating that assets positively correlated with entropy hedge aggregate news risk.