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Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice

A special issue of International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2018) | Viewed by 31504

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Andrikopoulos

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Coventry Business School, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, UK
Interests: behavioural finance; corporate finance; corporate governance; CSR
Dr. Vasilios Sogiakas

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Adam Smith Business School (Economics), University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
Interests: quantitative finance; financial econometrics; asset pricing; portfolio management; risk management and financial derivatives

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The main goal of this Special Issue of the International Journal of Financial Studies is to encourage theoretical and empirical studies that enhance knowledge in the field of asset pricing and portfolio choice. Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

-    Empirical and theoretical asset pricing models;
-    Time variation in expected stock returns and time varying volatility;
-    Experimental asset pricing models;
-    Asset returns and macroeconomic fundamentals;
-    Liquidity-risk premium;
-    Downside-risk premium;
-    Financial market structure and microstructure;
-    International capital asset pricing models;
-    Asset pricing models with heterogeneous beliefs and market evolution;
-    Portfolio Management and Asset Allocation
-    International Portfolio Management;
-    Mutual funds and Hedge funds;

Prof. Dr. Panagiotis Andrikopoulos
Dr. Vasilios Sogiakas
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Empirical asset pricing

  • Heterogeneous beliefs

  • International asset pricing

  • Factor models

  • Volatility

  • Liquidity

  • Portfolio choice

  • Asset allocation

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Why Is the Correlation between Crude Oil Prices and the US Dollar Exchange Rate Time-Varying?—Explanations Based on the Role of Key Mediators
by Jia Liao, Yu Shi and Xiangyun Xu
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2018, 6(3), 61; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs6030061 - 25 Jun 2018
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Using DCC-GARCH model, this paper finds that, since 1990, the relationship between crude oil prices and the US dollar index is time-varying, demonstrating a process of ‘very weak correlation—negative correlation—enhanced negative correlation—weakening negative correlation’, but the existing research does not provide enough reasonable [...] Read more.
Using DCC-GARCH model, this paper finds that, since 1990, the relationship between crude oil prices and the US dollar index is time-varying, demonstrating a process of ‘very weak correlation—negative correlation—enhanced negative correlation—weakening negative correlation’, but the existing research does not provide enough reasonable explanation. Therefore, this paper proposed a ‘key mediating factors’ hypothesis which points out that whether there is a common ‘key mediating factor’ is important source of the time-varying relationship between two assets. We argue that market trend and financial market sentiment undertook the role of ‘key mediating factor’ during the period of the 2002 to the financial crisis and financial crisis to 2013, while other periods lack the ‘key mediating factors’. Full article
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Multi-Factor Asset-Pricing Models under Markov Regime Switches: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market
by Jieting Chen and Yuichiro Kawaguchi
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2018, 6(2), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs6020054 - 20 May 2018
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This paper proposes a Markov regime-switching asset-pricing model and investigates the asymmetric risk-return relationship under different regimes for the Chinese stock market. It was found that the Chinese stock market has two significant regimes: a persistent bear market and a bull market. In [...] Read more.
This paper proposes a Markov regime-switching asset-pricing model and investigates the asymmetric risk-return relationship under different regimes for the Chinese stock market. It was found that the Chinese stock market has two significant regimes: a persistent bear market and a bull market. In regime 1, the risk premiums on common risk factors were relatively higher and consistent with the hypothesis that investors require more compensation for taking the same amount of risks in a bear regime when there is a higher risk-aversion level. Moreover, return dispersions among the Fama–French 25 portfolios were captured by the beta patterns from our proposed Markov regime-switching Fama–French three-factor model, implying that a positive risk-return relationship holds in regime 1. On the contrary, in regime 2, when lower risk premiums could be observed, portfolios with a big size or low book-to-market ratio undertook higher risk loadings, implying that the stocks that used to be known as “good” stocks were much riskier in a bull market. Thus, a risk-return relationship followed other patterns in this period. Full article
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Risk-Based Portfolios with Large Dynamic Covariance Matrices
by Kei Nakagawa, Mitsuyoshi Imamura and Kenichi Yoshida
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2018, 6(2), 52; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs6020052 - 14 May 2018
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In the field of portfolio management, practitioners are focusing increasingly on risk-based portfolios rather than on mean-variance portfolios. Risk-based portfolios are constructed based solely on covariance matrices, and include methods such as minimum variance (MV), risk parity (RP), and maximum diversification (MD). It [...] Read more.
In the field of portfolio management, practitioners are focusing increasingly on risk-based portfolios rather than on mean-variance portfolios. Risk-based portfolios are constructed based solely on covariance matrices, and include methods such as minimum variance (MV), risk parity (RP), and maximum diversification (MD). It is well known that the performance of a mean-variance portfolio depends on the accuracy of the estimations of the inputs. However, no studies have examined the relationship between the performance of risk-based portfolios and the estimated accuracy of covariance matrices. In this research, we compare the performance of risk-based portfolios for several estimation methods of covariance matrices in the Japanese stock market. In addition, we propose a highly accurate estimation method called cDCC-NLS, which incorporates nonlinear shrinkage into the cDCC-GARCH model. The results confirm that (1) the cDCC-NLS method shows the best estimation accuracy, (2) the RP and MD do not depend on the estimation accuracy of the covariance matrix, and (3) the MV does depend on the estimation accuracy of the covariance matrix. Full article
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An Empirical Examination of the Incremental Contribution of Stock Characteristics in UK Stock Returns
by Jonathan Fletcher
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2017, 5(4), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs5040021 - 11 Oct 2017
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This study uses the Bayesian approach to examine the incremental contribution of stock characteristics to the investment opportunity set in U.K. stock returns. The paper finds that size, book-to-market (BM) ratio, and momentum characteristics all make a significant incremental contribution to the investment [...] Read more.
This study uses the Bayesian approach to examine the incremental contribution of stock characteristics to the investment opportunity set in U.K. stock returns. The paper finds that size, book-to-market (BM) ratio, and momentum characteristics all make a significant incremental contribution to the investment opportunity set when there is unrestricted short selling. However, no short selling constraints eliminate the incremental contribution of the size and BM characteristics, but not the momentum characteristic. The use of additional stock characteristics such as stock issues, accruals, profitability, and asset growth leads to a significant incremental contribution beyond the size, BM, and momentum characteristics when there is unrestricted short selling, but no short selling constraints largely eliminates the incremental contribution of the additional characteristics. Full article
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Japanese Mutual Funds before and after the Crisis Outburst: A Style- and Performance-Analysis
by Stephanos Papadamou, Nikolaos A. Kyriazis and Lydia Mermigka
Int. J. Financial Stud. 2017, 5(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijfs5010009 - 01 Mar 2017
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This paper investigates how mutual funds performed in Japan before and after the 2008 outburst of the global financial crisis, that is during the extension of an extraordinary unconventional monetary policy by the Bank of Japan. Style and performance analyses are employed in [...] Read more.
This paper investigates how mutual funds performed in Japan before and after the 2008 outburst of the global financial crisis, that is during the extension of an extraordinary unconventional monetary policy by the Bank of Japan. Style and performance analyses are employed in order to investigate whether active or passive management has been affected by unconventional times and to what extent. Evidence indicates that in four out of eight funds, asset selection presents a significant contribution to returns. The Selection Sharpe Ratios for sectoral and style analyses exhibit positive values added per unit of risk due to active management for the majority of our funds in the pre-Lehman default period. Nevertheless, none of them presents statistical significance according to the t-statistic. Moreover, over the post-Lehman default, only two out of eight funds achieved lower volatility levels and higher returns due to active management. A style drift to big capitalization stocks with low values of book to market ratio is to be held responsible for the outperformance. Overall, our findings imply that active management in a monetary easing environment does not add significant value to the mutual fund performance. Full article
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