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The Chinese Stock Market

Author : Nicolaas Groenewold

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 272 pages

File Size : 32,28 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Business & Economics

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The emergence of a stock market in China only occurred a decade ago and it remains something of an unknown quantity to many observers and traders outside of the country. This book provides an extensive historical and empirical analysis of the Chinese stock-market, the development of which is an integral part of the process of economic modernization that began in China in the late 1970s. The authors address a variety of critical topics to assess the efficiency, predictability and profitability of the Chinese stock-market. They carefully examine the evolution and performance of the market over the past ten years and measure its level of efficiency using an array of empirical studies. The results reveal that not only is the stock market far from efficient but that it has also failed to properly integrate with other regional markets. Thus, the authors propose further reforms which they argue are necessary for the stock market to realize its full potential contribution to the operation of China's financial markets and to its continuing economic development. The stock market in China will undoubtedly grow in importance and international influence during the next ten years. As such, this valuable new book will be required reading for economic researchers, business economists and market analysts, as well as academics with an interest in Chinese business and Asian finance.



Momentum Trading, Mean Reversal and Overreaction in Chinese Stock Market

Author : Yangru Wu

Publisher :

Page : 23 pages

File Size : 33,65 MB

Release : 2007

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While the vast majority of the literature reports momentum profitability to be overwhelming in the U.S. market and widespread in other countries, this paper finds that the pure momentum strategy in general does not yield excess profitability in the Chinese stock markets. We find instead strong mean reversion with an average half-life slightly shorter than one year. A pure contrarian investment strategy produces positive excess returns and in general outperforms the pure momentum strategy. Furthermore, momentum may interact with mean reversion. A strategy based on the rolling-regression parameter estimates of the model combining mean reversion and momentum generates both statistically and economically significant excess returns. The combined strategy outperforms both pure momentum and pure contrarian strategies. We conduct a number of robustness tests and confirm the basic findings. Collectively, our results seem to support the overreaction hypothesis.





Behavioral Finance and Investor Types

Author : Michael M. Pompian

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 16,65 MB

Release : 2012-05-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1118235606

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Achieve investing success by understanding your behavior type This groundbreaking book shows how to invest wisely by managing your behavior, and not just your money. Step by step, Michael Pompian (a leading authority in the practical application of Behavioral Finance concepts to wealth management) helps you plan a strategy targeted to your personality. The book includes a test for determining your investment type and offers strategies you can put into use when investing. It also includes a brief history of the stock market, and easy-to-comprehend information about stocks and investing to help you lay a solid foundation for your investment decisions. Behavioral Finance and Investor Types is divided into two parts. Test Your Type, gives an overview of Behavioral Finance as well as the elements that come into play when figuring out BIT, like active or passive traits, risk tolerance, and biases. The book includes a quiz to help you discover what category you are in. Plan and Act, contains the traits common to your type; an analysis of the biases associated with your type; and strategies and solutions that compliment and capitalize on your BIT. Offers a practical guide to an investing strategy that fits both your financial situation and your personality type Includes a test for determining your tolerance for risk and other traits that will determine your investment type Written by the Director of the Private Wealth Practice for Hammond Associates—an investment consulting firm serving institutional and private wealth clients Behavioral Finance and Investor Types offers investors a better sense of what drives them and what puts on their breaks. By using the information found here, you'll quickly become savvy about the world of investing because you'll come to understand your place in it.



Chinese Stock Markets: A Research Handbook

Author : Dongwei Su

Publisher : World Scientific

Page : 454 pages

File Size : 28,93 MB

Release : 2003-01-07

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9814491799

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The exponential growth of China's stock markets in the past decade has attracted global attention from academics and practitioners. The practitioner's interest in Chinese markets stems from corporations; investors and financial institutions foresee substantial benefits from investing in China in the long run. However, the academic literature on the development of securities markets and reform of state enterprises in China is still in its infancy and fragmented. This handbook aims to bridge that gap by presenting a wide spectrum of research in the forefront of financial applications. It integrates theory and practice with state-of-the-art statistical techniques and provides numerous insights into the main challenges confronting Chinese markets in the new millennium.



Momentum Profits and Idiosyncratic Volatility

Author : Unyong Pyo

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Page : 23 pages

File Size : 47,25 MB

Release : 2013

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Purpose - This study focuses on the profitability of momentum trading in the Korean stock market. More specifically, an examination of the relationship between momentum returns and idiosyncratic volatility (IVol) is conducted to determine whether momentum profits can be explained by IVol.Design/Methodology/Approach - We form portfolios based on their past performance and examine the momentum, or contrarian returns, as the difference between winning and losing portfolios. To confirm that the momentum strategy provides excess returns, we study the relationship between momentum returns and IVol. We also examine the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model to see whether systematic risk affects momentum profits. We control firm size, stock price, and turnover to determine robustness. Finally, we investigate a time-series relationship between aggregate IVol and momentum profits.Findings - We illustrate that excess returns are obtained from a momentum strategy, not a contrarian strategy, in the Korean stock market. Momentum returns are higher among high IVol stocks, especially high IVol winners. Examining the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model, we find that momentum returns cannot be explained by systematic risk. The findings are robust after controlling for factors such as firm size, book-to-market ratio, and turnover. We confirm the effect of IVol on momentum returns by illustrating that a time-series relationship between momentum returns and aggregate IVol is positive.Originality/Value - This paper is among the first, to our knowledge, to examine the relationship between momentum profits and IVol in the Korean stock market, one of the mature financial markets. The findings in this study can be applied to better understand the sources of gains from the momentum strategy in international stock markets.