Esta dissertação analisa a ocorrência do prêmio de valor, ou value premium para ações brasileiras no período de 2000 a 2009. Utilizando a metodologia de Fama e French (1992, 2007), foram coletados dados do múltiplo P/VPA (Preço / Valor Patrimonial da Ação) trimestrais de empresas que compõem os índices Ibovespa e IBrX, e a partir de testes entre decis e quartis desses valores, foram identificadas as relações entre risco e retorno, e elaboradas 20 carteiras com o uso de 22 ações. Foi utilizada a técnica de bootstrapping para testar a hipótese de existência de value premium nas carteiras. Os resultados obtidos corroboram as evidências de estudos recentes que apontam as carteiras formadas por ações de baixo índice P/VPA como as de melhor desempenho. As principais contribuições deste estudo são a identificação do value premium no período recente no mercado de capitais brasileiro e a adoção de testes mais robustos para evidenciar este resultado. / This dissertation analyses the value premium for Brazilian stocks from 2000 through 2009. adopting the Fama and French (1992, 2007) methodology and data from Bloomberg. We constructed 20 portfolios, composed of 22 shares based on the calculated P/B (Price/Book) indexes. For every portfolio we calculated risk and return, both in U.S. Dollars and Brazilian Reais. The adopted methodology includes Bootstrapping technique to test the value premium hypothesis. The results support evidence from previous studies which show the strategy of building stock portfolios with low P/B index as the best approach to increase performance. The main contributions of this paper are statistically relevant findings about value premium in the Brazilian stocks market and adoption of robust tests to support the evidences.

The development of time series techniques associated with non stationary data, such as the testing for unit roots and cointegration has presented the applied worker with new challenges in the applied analysis of economic problems.This thesis uses some of these methods to consider a number of questions in the area of labour and financial markets.In particular the thesis considers the application of these methods to two general questions, the specification of the aggregate wage equation in Australia and the efficiency of the Australian stock market. More specifically the thesis focuses on the time series properties of variables commonly used in specifications of the wage equation and then tests them for cointegration. In the financial economics area the thesis tests for the gains to portfolio diversification from the perspective of an Australian investor and the applicability of the present value model of stock prices to the Australian stock market.

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the relationship between the annualised volatility and correlation of G7 ten-year bond returns for the period July 1992 to June 1998 and the effects that such a relationship has on portfolio diversification. The stock market crash of 1987 and the growing importance of global equity markets has encouraged a plethora of research into the volatility and correlations between international equity markets. Despite this, very little attention has been paid to the transmission of currency-based bond returns across national boundaries. The findings in this thesis are important because evidence is provided that suggests the benefits of international bond diversification are limited. The evidence provided clearly indicates that because correlations amongst G7 currency-hedged bond returns are high, the relationship between bond volatility and correlation of returns has limited benefits for portfolio managers and traders. As a result, diversification may not significantly reduce portfolio risk. Even during periods of ongoing annualised volatility decreases, the correlation between most markets remains high. Unlike the volatility trends presented in this thesis, there appears to be no trend or consistency amongst the correlation of returns between G7 markets. / Master of Commerce (Hons)

With the progress of the times, the international financial market link is becoming more and more closely, while the probability of extreme events more and more high, if there are some indicators can be used as a prediction of the crash, as whether to sell the stocks, it can be very useful. The study process for the use of the Fama-French five-factor model, as well as the VaR model, with the cluster analysis method, and clustering for Taiwan 50 constituent stocks in accordance with the five-factor characteristics of the individual stocks, the similar nature of stock into the same group, the establishment of portfolio, the use of portfolio daily returns to calculate the the VaR, and observe the VaR spread before the crash, how the trend, and whether certain characteristics. Comparison of the cluster group for the predictive ability of the collapse events, as well as the relationship between risk factors and predictive ability. The results of VaR spread movements are often subject to fluctuations significantly change the situation before the crash occurs. By intense will be stable or from stable will be severe. Good predictive ability of the cluster, often its constituent stocks and the collapse of the reasons more closely the relationship. Financial stocks sensitive to the financial tsunami; Electronic stocks are subject to exchange rate affect.Overall, the group with the best predictive ability is more sensitive to momentum effects and investor sentiment indicators ,but non-sensitive to book-to-market factor.To use the Var spread as a predictor of reference,choosing to meet the aforementioned conditions of stocks to the portfolio is a nice way.

In this dissertation, three related issues of building empirical time series models for financial markets are investigated with respect to contemporaneous causality, dynamics, and structural change. In the first essay, nation-wide industry information transmission among stock returns of ten sectors in the U.S. economy is examined through the Directed Acyclical Graph (DAG) for contemporaneous causality and Bernanke decomposition for dynamics. The evidence shows that the information technology sector is the most root cause sector. Test results show that DAG from ex ante forecast innovations is consistent with the DAG fro m ex post fit innovations. This supports innovation accounting based on DAGs using ex post innovations. In the second essay, the contemporaneous/dynamic behaviors of real estate and stock returns are investigated. Selected macroeconomic variables are included in the model to explain recent movements of both returns. During 1971-2004, there was a single structural break in October 1980. A distinct difference in contemporaneous causal structure before and after the break is found. DAG results show that REITs take the role of a causal parent after the break. Innovation accounting shows significantly positive responses of real estate returns due to an initial shock in default risk but insignificant responses of stock returns. Also, a shock in short run interest rates affects real estate returns negatively with significance but does not affect stock returns. In the third essay, a structural change in the volatility of five Asian and U.S. stock markets is examined during the post-liberalization period (1990-2005) in the Asian financial markets, using the Sup LM test. Four Asian financial markets (Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Singapore) experienced structural changes. However, test results do not support the existence of structural change in volatility for Thailand and U.S. Also, results show that the Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) persistent coefficient increases, but the Autoregressive Conditional heteroskedasticity (ARCH) impact coefficient, implying short run adjustment, decreases in Asian markets. In conclusion, when the econometric model is set up, it is necessary to consider contemporaneous causality and possible structural breaks (changes). The dissertation emphasizes causal inference and structural consistency in econometric modeling. It highlights their importance in discovering contemporaneous/dynamic causal relationships among variables. These characteristics will likely be helpful in generating accurate forecasts.

This text will discuss the financial reform and the monetary policy in China opens progress since 1979, from it understanding the China government has already opened which financial markets, and discussing the present condition and problems of these financial markets, and analyzing whether these financial markets reach the purpose by the monetary policy that the China government have like to maintain economic growth and price stabilize or not. This text will aim at the commercial bank, stock market, foreign exchange market of China three sections to conduct a research. Commercial bank's lifting the ban gradually has to cause the China authorities face the NPL¡¦s problem of bank, and their bank have to compete with foreign capital bank with functional deficiency. And the open of stock market cause the China residents get bogged down in an investment upsurge, but the not perfect system and corrupt make the China economy appear a bust condition. The reform of exchange rate causes the pressure of China export, and has influence to the domestic monetary policy. At the moment China still is placed in a high economic growth, low inflation stage, but also appears excessive of exports surplus and the monetary credit throws. How to avoid possible inflation and make the economic growth not too boom is the focus that China authorities and the scholars pays attention to.

There is a large body of research that indicates that international equity markets co-move over time. This co-movement manifests in various instruments, ranging from equities and bonds to soft commodities. However, this co-movement is more prevalent over crisis periods and can be seen in returns and volatility transmission effects. The recent financial crisis demonstrated that no local market is immune to transmission effects from international markets. South African financial market participants, such as investors and policymakers, have a vested interest in understanding how the equity market in particular and the economy in general react to international financial crises. This study aims to contribute an improved understanding of how the South African equity market interacts with international equity markets, by identifying the degree of price and volatility transmission before, during, and after an international financial crisis. This was done by investigating the possibility of changes in price and volatility transmissions from the Asian financial crisis (1997–1998), the dotcom bubble (2000–2001) and the more recent subprime financial crisis (2007–2009). An Exponential Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (E-GARCH) model was employed within the framework of an Aggregate Shock model. The results indicate that during the international financial crises studied, the JSE All Share Index was directly affected through contagion effects inherent in the returns of the originating crisis country. Volatility transmissions during international financial crises came directly from the originating crisis country. Finally, the FTSE 100 Index was the main exporter of price and volatility transmission to the JSE All Share Index. / Thesis (M.Com. (Risk management))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2012

Online stock forums have become a vital investing platform on which to publish relevant and valuable user-generated content (UGC) data such as investment recommendations and other stock-related information that allow investors to view the opinions of a large number of users and share-trading ideas. This thesis applies methods from computational linguistics and text-mining techniques to analyse and extract, on a daily basis, sentiments from stock-related micro-blogging messages called “StockTwits”. The primary aim of this research is to provide an understanding of the predictive ability of stock micro-blogging sentiments to forecast future stock price behavioural movements by investigating the various roles played by investor sentiments in determining asset pricing on the stock market. The empirical analysis in this thesis consists of four main parts based on the predictive power and the role of investor sentiment in the stock market. The first part discusses the findings of the text-mining procedure for extracting and predicting sentiments from stock-related micro-blogging data. The purpose is to provide a comparative textual analysis of different machine learning algorithms for the purpose of selecting the most accurate text-mining techniques for predicting sentiment analysis on StockTwits through the provision of two different applications of feature selection, namely filter and wrapper approaches. The second part of the analysis focuses on investigating the predictive correlations between StockTwits features and the stock market indicators. It aims to examine the explanatory power of StockTwits variables in explaining the dynamic nature of different financial market indicators. The third part of the analysis investigates the role played by noise traders in determining asset prices. The aim is to show that stock returns, volatility and trading volumes are affected by investor sentiment; it also seeks to investigate whether changes in sentiment (bullish or bearish) will have different effects on stock market prices. The fourth part offers an in-depth analysis of some tweet-market relationships which represent an open problem in the empirical literature (e.g. sentiment-return relations and volume-disagreement relations). The results suggest that StockTwits sentiments exhibit explanatory power in explaining the dynamics of stock prices in the U.S. market. Taking different approaches by combining text-mining techniques with feature selection methods has proved successful in predicting StockTwits sentiments. The applications of the approach presented in this thesis offer real-time investment ideas that may provide investors and their peers with a decision support mechanism. Investor sentiment plays a critical role in determining asset prices in capital markets. Overall, the findings suggest that investor sentiment among noise traders is a priced factor. The findings confirm the existence of asymmetric spillover effects of bullish and bearish sentiments on the stock market. They also suggest that sentiment is a significant factor in explaining stock price behaviour in the capital market and imply the positive role of the stock market in the formation of investor sentiment in stock markets. Furthermore, the research findings demonstrate that disagreement is not only an important factor in determining trading volumes but it is also considered a very significant factor in influencing asset prices and returns in capital markets. Overall, the findings of the thesis provide empirical evidence that failure to consider the role of investor sentiment in traditional finance theory could lead to an imperfect picture when explaining the behaviour of stock prices in stock markets.

abstract: The city of Shanghai is set to become an international financial center (IFC) by 2020. To achieve this goal, it is imperative to clearly define the key characteristics of an IFC. In this study I draw from recent research on the ranking of IFCs to develop an index of these key characteristics that can be used to assess a city’s standings as an IFC. Based on a review of prior research, I first put together a comprehensive list of the indicators that have been used to evaluate IFCs, which includes six first-level indicators and 34 second-level indicators. I then collect information on all these indicators from public sources for the following eight cities each year from 2011 to 2013: London, New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. Next, I conduct a principal component analysis (PCA) on my data, and obtain four primary factors that contain most information of the original 34 indicators. The first factor covers 18 of the original indicators and reflects a city’s level of development in general business environment. The second factor covers 10 of the original indicators and reflects a city’s level of development in financial markets. The third factor covers three of the original indicators and reflects a city’s level of economic vitality. The fourth factor covers three of the original indicators and reflects a city’s level of the costs of living. I further calculate the composite scores for the above eight cities along these four factors, and find that these eight cities can be classified into three tiers on the basis of their scores. The first tier consists of New York and London; the second tier consists of Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris and Tokyo; and the third tier consists of Shanghai and Beijing. I also find that Shanghai has been making progress in its scores along these four factors over the last three years, especially regarding financial market development, economic vitality, and cost of living. What Shanghai needs to focus on next is to improve its business environment so that it can move up to the second tier in IFC status. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Business Administration 2015

Submitted by Jean Akio Shida Hashioka (jeanhashioka@hotmail.com) on 2018-07-15T18:07:38Z No. of bitstreams: 1 JEAN AKIO SHIDA HASHIOKA - DISSERTAÇÃO.pdf: 1481230 bytes, checksum: 0f68b8e12c0a1f82eeaf421be75f5c17 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Elza Mitiko Sato null (elzasato@ibilce.unesp.br) on 2018-07-17T13:30:41Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 hashioka_jas_me_sjrp.pdf: 1481230 bytes, checksum: 0f68b8e12c0a1f82eeaf421be75f5c17 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-17T13:30:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 hashioka_jas_me_sjrp.pdf: 1481230 bytes, checksum: 0f68b8e12c0a1f82eeaf421be75f5c17 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-06-15 / Este trabalho consiste em apresentar a abordagem das cadeias de Markov como ferramenta auxiliadora na prática docente da matemática no Ensino Médio, tornando o processo mais tangível à realidade dos alunos. A contextualização dos conteúdos de matrizes, sistemas lineares e probabilidade poderá ser feita com exemplos práticos do cotidiano, considerando o meio social em que vivem os estudantes, resgatando assim o desejo pela aprendizagem e pelas aplicações da matemática. Espera-se desta forma maior receptividade da disciplina por parte dos discentes e, potencialmente, melhor resposta ao aprendizado pretendido. Assim sendo, o estudo aborda, num primeiro momento, a convergência de distribuição de probabilidade de uma cadeia de Markov de dois estados por meio de limites no in nito de uma função de probabilidade. Desta primeira cadeia de Markov de dois estados, é elaborado um roteiro de aula a ser abordado como exemplo a ser trabalhado em sala de aula relacionado às probabilidades de um time de futebol vencer as suas próximas partidas. Prosseguindo, observa-se a aplicabilidade das cadeias de Markov para calcular a distribuição de probabilidades de um jogador estar perdido em diferentes salas de um labirinto para cada tentativa de encontrar a saída. A m de evidenciar outro exemplo de aplicação das cadeias de Markov, há a construção de um modelo de preci cação de ativos com o objetivo de prever os preços de algumas ações de empresas negociadas na BM&FBOVESPA, a bolsa de valores do Brasil. Tal modelo de preci cação de ativos mostrou-se adequado estatisticamente como ferramenta de análise e cálculo dos retornos médios esperados de alguns dos ativos estudados. Por meio do conteúdo apresentado neste estudo, espera-se contribuir com o aprofundamento de alguns recursos e conceitos para a prática docente com aulas sobre cadeias de Markov no Ensino Médio. Esses aspectos direcionam esta pesquisa para um relevante processo de desenvolvimento do raciocínio, senso crítico e tomada de decisões em situações progressivamente mais complexas vividas pelos alunos. / This work presents the Markov chain approach as a useful tool in the teaching practice of mathematics in High School, making the process more tangible to the students' reality. The contextualization of matrix contents, linear systems and probability can be done with practical examples of daily life, considering the social environment in which students live, thus recovering the desire for learning and the applications of mathematics. It is expected in this way more receptivity of the discipline on the part of the students and, potentially, better response to the intended learning. Thus, the study addresses, rst, the convergence of probability distribution of a two-state Markov chain by means of in nite limits of a probability function. From this rst Markov chain of two states, a lesson script is elaborated to be approached as example to be worked in classroom related to the probabilities of a soccer team to win its next matches. Proceeding, we observe the applicability of Markov chains to calculate the probability distribution of a player being lost in di erent rooms of a maze for each attempt to nd the exit. In order to highlight another example of the application of the Markov chains, an asset pricing model is designed to predict the prices of some shares of companies traded on BM&FBOVESPA, the Brazilian stock exchange. Such an asset pricing model proved to be statistically adequate as a tool for analysis and calculation of the expected average returns of some of the assets studied. Through the content presented in this study, it is hoped to contribute with the deepening of some resources and concepts for the teaching practice with classes on Markov chains in High School. These aspects direct this research to a relevant process of development of reasoning, critical sense and decision making in progressively more complex situations experienced by students.