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Two essays on asset pricingLuo, Dan, 罗丹 January 2012 (has links)
This thesis centers around the pricing and risk-return tradeoff of credit and equity derivatives.
The first essay studies the pricing in the CDS Index (CDX) tranche market, and whether these instruments
have been reasonably priced and integrated within the financial market generally, both
before and during the financial crisis. We first design a procedure to value CDO tranches using
an intensity-based model which falls into the affine model class. The CDX tranche spreads are
efficiently explained by a three-factor version of this model, before and during the crisis period.
We then construct tradable CDX tranche portfolios, representing the three default intensity factors.
These portfolios capture the same exposure as the S&P 500 index optionmarket, to a market
crash. We regress these CDX factors against the underlying index, the volatility factor, and the
smirk factor, extracted from the index option returns, and against the Fama-French market, size
and book-to-market factors. We finally argue that the CDX spreads are integrated in the financial
market, and their issuers have not made excess returns.
The second essay explores the specifications of jumps for modeling stock price dynamics and
cross-sectional option prices. We exploit a long sample of about 16 years of S&P500 returns
and option prices for model estimation. We explicitly impose the time-series consistency when
jointly fitting the return and option series. We specify a separate jump intensity process which
affords a distinct source of uncertainty and persistence level from the volatility process. Our
overall conclusion is that simultaneous jumps in return and volatility are helpful in fitting the
return, volatility and jump intensity time series, while time-varying jump intensities improve the
cross-section fit of the option prices. In the formulation with time-varying jump intensity, both
the mean jump size and standard deviation of jump size premia are strengthened. Our MCMC
approach to estimate the models is appropriate, because it has been found to be powerful by
other authors, and it is suitable for dealing with jumps. To the best of our knowledge, our study
provides the the most comprehensive application of the MCMC technique to option pricing in
affine jump-diffusion models. / published_or_final_version / Economics and Finance / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy
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Conditional nonlinear asset pricing kernels and the size and book-to-market effectsBurke, Stephen Dean 05 1900 (has links)
We develop and test asset pricing model formulations that are simultaneously conditional
and nonlinear. Formulations based upon five popular asset pricing models are tested against
the widely studied Fama and French (1993) twenty-five size and book-to-market sorted portfolios.
Test results indicate that the conditional nonlinear specification of the Fama and
French (1993) three state variable model (FF3) is the only specification not rejected by the
data and thus capable of pricing the "size" and "book-to-market" effects simultaneously.
The pricing performance of the FF3 conditional nonlinear pricing kernel is corifirmed by
robustness tests on out-of-sample data as well as tests with alternative instrumental and
conditioning variables. While Bansal and Viswanathan (1993) and Chapman (1997) find
unconditional nonlinear pricing kernels sufficient to capture the size effect alone, our results
indicate that similar unconditional nonlinear pricing kernels considered here do not price the
size and book-to-market effects simultaneously. However, nested model tests indicate that,
in isolation, both conditioning information and nonlinearity significantly improve the pricing
kernel performance for all five asset pricing models. The success of the conditional nonlinear
FF3 model also suggests that the combination of conditioning and nonlinearity is critical
to pricing kernel design. Implications for both academic researchers and practitioners are
considered.
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Essays in empirical asset pricingSmith, Daniel Robert 11 1900 (has links)
This thesis consists of two essays which contribute to different but related aspects of
the empirical asset pricing literature. The common theme is that incorrect restrictions
can lead to inaccurate decisions. The first essay demonstrates that failure to account
for the Federal Reserve experiment can lead to incorrect assumptions about the explosiveness
of short-term interest rate volatility, while the second essay demonstrates
that we need to incorporate skewness to develop models that adequately account for
the cross-section of equity returns.
Essay 1 empirically compares the Markov-switching and stochastic volatility diffusion
models of the short rate. The evidence supports the Markov-switching diffusion
model. Estimates of the elasticity of volatility parameter for single-regime models
unanimously indicate an explosive volatility process, whereas the Markov-switching
models estimates are reasonable. We find that either Markov-switching or stochastic
volatility, but not both, is needed to adequately fit the data. A robust conclusion is
that volatility depends on the level of the short rate. Finally, the Markov-switching
model is the best for forecasting. A technical contribution of this paper is a presentation
of quasi-maximum likelihood estimation techniques for the Markov-switching
stochastic-volatility model.
Essay 2 proposes a new approach to estimating and testing nonlinear pricing models
using GMM. The methodology extends the GMM based conditional mean-variance
asset pricing tests of Harvey (1989) and He et al (1996) to include preferences over
moments higher than variance. In particular we explore the empirical usefulness of
the conditional coskewness of an assets return with the market return in explaining
the cross-section of equity returns. The methodology is both flexible and parsimonious.
We avoid modelling any asset specific parameters and avoid making restrictive
assumptions on the dynamics of co-moments. By using GMM to estimate the models'
parameters we also avoid making any assumptions about the distribution of the data.
The empirical results indicate that coskewness is useful in explaining the cross-section
of equity returns, and that both covariance and coskewness are time varying. We also
find that the usefulness of coskewness is robust to the inclusion of Fama and French's
(1993) SMB and HML factor returns.
There is an interesting debate raging in the empirical asset pricing literature comparing
the SDF versus beta methodologies. This paper's technique is a conditional
version of the beta methodology, which turns out to be directly comparable with
the SDF methodology with only minor modifications. Our SDF version imposes the
CAPM's restrictions that the coefficients in the pricing kernel are known functions of
the moments of market returns, which are modelled using macro-variables. We find
that the SDF implied by the three-moment CAPM provides a better fit in this data
set than current practice of parameterizing the coefficients on market returns in the
SDF. This has an interesting application to the current SDF versus beta methodology
debate.
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A Canadian study of admissible monetary asset groupings using nonparametric demand analysisCunningham, James K. (James Kenneth) January 1994 (has links)
Structural change and innovation in the market for financial services in recent years have drawn attention to the fact that traditional definitions of money as included in demand for money models and monetary aggregation measures may be misspecified. It is unclear whether or to what extent broader measures of money should be used as targets in monetary policy or as indicators of changes in the real economy. This thesis is a nonparametric empirical test of monetary asset, leisure and consumption good data which seeks to examine whether the underlying structure of preferences implied by monetary aggregation can be said to be justified. Using recent software routines, we test Canadian data for the years 1968-I to 1989-IV in order to determine whether it meets the criteria for utility maximization and for a structure of preferences represented by weak separability. We find that only a narrow grouping of monetary assets meets these requirements. Further, we conclude that many other studies in the literature which have merely assumed weak separability have been misspecified.
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Information and learning in asset pricingSekeris, Evangelos. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 125-126).
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Happiness and monetary factorsDe, Sanjay. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (B.A.)--Haverford College, Dept. of Economics, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.
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Two essays in production based asset pricing /Porter, Robert B. January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, March 1999. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the Internet.
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Heterogeneous consumption and asset pricing in global financial markets /Sarkissian, Sergei. January 1999 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-106).
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Essays in empirical asset pricing /Johnson, Lorne D. January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2000. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-93).
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Disclosure of deferred tax a descriptive study into the appropriateness of different classification methods /De Jager, Daniël Theodorus. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.Com.(Taxation))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Abstract in English and Afrikaans. Includes bibliographical references.
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