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Sammanfattning Magisteruppsats för Civilekonomexamen i företagsekonomi, Ekonomihögskolan vid Linnéuniversitetet, Växjö, 2016.   Författare Alexander Palm & Adam Sjögren   Handledare Christopher Von Koch & Katarina Eriksson   Examinator: Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin   Titel: ”Aktierekommendationer i en ny tid – podcasts på den finansiella marknaden”   Bakgrund & problem: Aktierekommendationer ges traditionellt ut av diverse banker och analyshus. En bias har observerats vilket är till nackdel för investerare. Podcasts är ett förhållandevis nytt fenomen som kan erbjuda aktierekommendationer. Eftersom denna form av media är ny, finns lite forskning kring dess roll och potential för att erbjuda finansiella råd.   Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att utvidga forskning kring podcasts och dess roll för marknadsfunktionen och marknadseffektiviteten   Metod: En deduktiv utgångspunkt och ett kvantitativt förhållningssätt mellan teori och forskning tillämpas. En traditionell eventstudie med två olika tidsspann tillämpas för att studera aktierekommendationers påverkan på aktiekurser.   Slutsats: Resultat pekar på att IH inte har stöd vid aktierekommendationer från podcasts vilket är ett tecken på stöd för EMH. Däremot har PPH stöd vilket i sin tur pekar på brister i EMH. Således är det ett tecken på att den svenska aktiemarknaden inte är fullt effektiv och den besitter inte semi-stark form. Inget informationsläckage kunde observeras i samband med rekommendationerna, något som skiljer sig från traditionella källor. Vi kunde visa på en viss temporär och positiv effekt gällande marknadsfunktionen för Small Cap. Genom en observerad ökad handelsvolym påvisar vi övertro på den svenska aktiemarknaden, något som gäller även för traditionella aktierekommendationer. Vi kan inte statistiskt säkerställa att kunskaps sprids mellan podcastlyssnare vilket skiljer sig mot teorier och tidigare forskning. / Abstract Master Thesis in Business Administration. School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University, Växjö, 2016.   Authors Alexander Palm & Adam Sjögren   Supervisor: Christopher Von Koch & Katarina Eriksson   Examiner: Sven-Olof Yrjö Collin   Title: “Stock recommendations in a new era – Podcasts in financial markets.”   Background & problem: Banks and other financial institutes deliver traditionally stock recommendations. Bias from these sources has been observed which can be of disadvantage for individual investors. Podcasts is a relatively new kind of media that can supply the market with stock recommendations. Since podcasts is a new media, there is little research regarding its role on financial markets and its potential to offer financial advice.   Purpose: The purpose is to extend previous research regarding podcasts and it’s role on market efficiency and market function.   Method: We apply a deductive benchmark and a quantitative approach. A traditional event study with two different time-spans is conducted to analyse stock recommendation and the effect on stock prices.   Conclusion: Results indicate lack of support for IH with stock recommendations from podcasts, which in turn is support for EMH. However, PPH does have support, which indicate deficiency in EMH. Thus, we provide evidence that the Swedish stock market is not fully efficient and doesn’t posses semi-strong form. No information leakage could be observed, something that differs from previous research on stock recommendations. We could provide evidence of a temporary and positive effect regarding the market function for Small Cap. The observed increase in trading volume proves overconfidence on the Swedish stock market, something that has previously been shown. No knowledge dispersion exists between listeners of podcasts, something that differs from theory and previous research.

The primary purpose of this paper is to analyse the effect of the market reaction to stock recommendations published by Swedish banks. The market price reactions will also be compared to the OMXSPI index to analyse if it is possible to earn higher returns by following the recommendations. Previous studies suggest that the effect of stock recommendations leads to higher trading volumes and returns. While previous studies suggest that there is an effect, the effect from stock recommendation is not long lasting. The data collected consist of 659 stock recommendations from the biggest banks in Sweden. The results of the paper are in line with previous studies on the subject. The results suggest that buy recommendations lead to increased trading volumes and returns on the publication day. We also find that the cumulative average return from the recommendations is slightly higher than the index on the publication date. / Huvudsakliga syftet med denna studie är att undersöka marknadsreaktioner på aktierekommendationer utgivna av svenska banker. Syftet är även att jämföra marknadens prisreaktioner med OMXSPI index för att undersöka huruvida avkastningen från rekommendationerna överträffar index. Tidigare forskning har visat att aktierekommendationer leder till högre avkastning och högre handelsvolym. Effekten är däremot inte bestående på längre sikt. Datainsamlingen innehåller 659 aktierekommendationer från storbankerna i Sverige. Resultatet av studien ligger i linje med tidigare forskning. Resultatet visar att köprekommendationer leder till att avkastningen och handelsvolymen ökar i genomsnitt på kort sikt. Studien finner även att den kumulativa avkastningen från rekommendationerna är något högre än index på publiceringsdagen.

This dissertation studies the reaction of trading behavior of investors, especially institutional investors, to the public information in Taiwan. Two kinds of public information are chosen in this dissertation. One is open-ending closed-end funds under the regulation set up by Taiwan authority. The other is the change of stocks in MSCI Taiwan Index that is decided by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI), a well-known foreign institution in constructing various indices. Consistent with earlier studies using U.S. data, our results show that open-ending is a wealth-enhancing event for shareholders. We also provide evidence of the existence of noise traders in the closed-end fund market. The evidence is derived from the trading behavior of domestic institutional investors and small individual investors, who ignore price discounts when open-ending is imminent. The trading by noise traders impedes price adjustments to the discounts, and provides profit opportunities to arbitragers. Furthermore, we show that foreign investors gain considerable wealth, largely at the expense of domestic institutional investors and small individual investors, in the open-ending process. On average, their gains account for 30% of the total gains associated with open-ending, or NT$562 millions per case. On the issue of the change of stocks in MSCI Taiwan Index, we find that MSCI prefers to select the securities with good performance, high liquidity, and large firm size into MSCI Taiwan Index while tends to drop the securities with poor performance, lower liquidity, and small firm size from MSCI Taiwan Index. Besides, consistent with the previous studies, prices increase (decrease) significantly for stocks added to (deleted from) the MSCI Taiwan Index after the announcement date. As well as the deletions, the price decreases for unchanging stocks after the announcement date. However, there is no evidence to find that foreign investors have information advantage in MSCI news over domestic investors. Foreign investors increase (decrease) their holdings on stocks included in (excluded from) the MSCI Taiwan Index after the announcement date. Moreover, price pressure hypothesis is not supported. Visibility hypothesis, information content hypothesis, downward sloping demand curves hypothesis are supported. Finally, for additions and deletions, the market-adjusted returns are driven by the contemporaneous excess buy of foreign investors and the contemporaneous excess sells of domestic corporations and individuals.

Syfte: Undersökningens syftet är att mäta huruvida det går att få ut en överavkastning av aktier som väljs in i (respektive ut ur) OMX Stockholm Benchmark (OMXSB), som följd av att ett index ändrar sin komposition. Delsyftet är att undersöka om det går att se en signifikant ökning av handelsvolymen i anslutning till ändringsdagen. Metod: Studien tillämpar en eventstudie som undersökningsmetod av kvantitativ karaktär. Studien undersöker indexet OMXSB och innefattade totalt 111 stycken ingående och utgående aktier fördelat på 10 tillfällen. Två eventfönster har konstruerats; ett kring annonseringsdagen och ett kring ändringsdagen. Den procentuella handelsvolymen har mätts över eventfönstret kring ändringsdagen. Resultat: Den genomsnittliga kumulerade överavkastningen för eventfönstret vid annonseringsdagen uppgick till 1,02 % (-6 %) för de aktier som valdes in (ut). Det motsvarande resultatet 2,55 % (-0,41 %) framkom i eventfönstret för ändringsdagen. Handelsvolymen uppnådde i båda fallen en signifikant ökning dagen innan ändringen genomfördes. Slutsatser: Resultatet visade en signifikant överavkastning för aktier som valdes in (ut) i eventfönstret kring ändringsdagen (annonseringsdagen). Den signifikanta skillnaden av handelsvolymen tyder på att indexerarna handlar aktierna dagen innan ändringen genomförs. För aktier som väljs in gick det att se ett pristryck där priset höjdes fram till dagen innan ändringen genomfördes, som sedan återgick. Resultaten kan ha påverkats av externa faktorer vilket kan ha lett till en missvisande bild av den undersökta effekten. / Purpose: The study aims to investigate whether it is possible to get an abnormal return of stocks added to (or deleted from) the OMX Stockholm Benchmark index (OMXSB), as a result of a changes of the index composition. A subsidiary aim of the study is to investigate whether it is possible to see a significant increase in trading volume in close to the change day. Methodology: The study applies an event study as method of investigation of a quantitative character. The study examines the OMXSB and include a total of 111 added and deleted stocks distributed on 10 occasions. Two event windows have been designed: one around announcement day and one around change day. The percentage change of trading volume has been measured over the event window around the change day. Results: The average cumulative abnormal return for the event window around announcement day reached 1.02% (-6%) for the added (deleted) shares. Corresponding results of 2.55% (-0.41%) emerged in event window for change day. In both cases the trading volume reached a significant increase the day before the change was implemented. Conclusions: The results showed a significant abnormal return for stocks that were added (deleted) in the event window around the change day (announcement day). Trade volume suggests that index funds trade shares the day before the change day. For the added shares a price pressure could be identified up to the day before change day. The results may have been influenced by external factors which may have lead to a misleading picture of the investigated effect.

Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία ερευνά την σχέση μεταξύ των συναλλαγών των μετοχικών αμοιβαίων κεφαλαίων και των χρηματιστηριακών αποδόσεων για την περίπτωση του Ελληνικού Χρηματιστηρίου για την χρονική περίοδο 1994-2002. Με την χρησιμοποίηση ποικίλων οικονομετρικών μεθόδων γίνεται έλεγχος για την ύπαρξη σχέσης συνολοκλήρωσης καθώς και κάποιας βραχυχρόνιας σχέσης μεταξύ αυτών των δύο παραγόντων, ενώ γίνεται προσπάθεια εντοπισμού κάποιας σχέσης αιτιότητας μεταξύ αυτών με βάση τον έλεγχο αιτιότητας του Granger. / This diplomatic thesis investigates the relationship between the trading of mutual funds and stock returns in the case of the Greek Stock Exchange Market, for the period 1994 - 2002. A variety of econometric methods was used to check the existence of a cointegration relationship and a kind of a short-run relationship between these two factors. Finally an attempt was made to identify causal relationships between them using the Granger causality test.

本研究旨在探討臺灣中型100 指數成分股調整事件之價量關係以及新聞報導效果。研究樣本分為純粹納入股、向下納入股、純粹剔除股以及向上剔除股，並分別以成份股調整之宣告日與執行日作為事件日，採用事件研究法，分析事件前後之價量變化，同時，進一步探討，宣告日至執行日期間，新聞報導對於成分股調整效果之影響。實證結果顯示，純粹納入(剔除)股於宣告日當天以及執行日前一天具有顯著的正(負)向異常報酬，且短期內皆有反轉的現象產生；向下納入(向上剔除)股，在宣告日與執行日前一交易日享有負(正)向異常報酬，且執行日後五日旋即反轉；此外，此四類個股於宣告日以及執行日附近，皆有異常週轉率生。在新聞效果部分，本研究將純粹納入(剔除)股分為有利多(空)新聞之組別以及無新聞之組別，探討其異常報酬現象。實證結果發現，有利多(空)新聞之純粹納入(剔除)股，相較於無新聞之純粹納入(剔除)股享有較高的正(負)向異常報酬率，顯見在成分股調整事件中，新聞報導亦會影響股價表現。 / This paper examines the effects of Taiwan mid-cap 100 index revision and news coverage on stock price and volume. Using event study method, the sample of this study is divided into four groups: pure additions, downward additions, pure deletions, upward deletions to analyze the changes of stock prices and volume on the announcement day and effective day. Furthermore, the effects of news coverage between announcement day and effective day are also investigated. Results of our analysis suggests that there are significantly positive (negative) abnormal returns (ARs) for pure additions (deletions) on announcement day and the day before effective day but transitory. For downward additions and upward deletions, there are significantly negative ARs for the former and significantly positive ARs for the latter. However, both ARs reverse within five days. Besides, there are abnormal volumes in the entire sample. As for the effects of news coverage, pure additions (deletions) are divided into two groups to examine the existence of ARs, one group with bullish (bearish) news and one group without. Results show that pure additions (deletions) with bullish (bearish) news have higher ARs than those without news coverage, supporting our hypothesis that in the event of index revision, news coverage do affect stock prices