Olesya V. Grishchenko , Franck Moraux , Olga Pakulyak
{"title":"Fuel up with OATmeals! The case of the French nominal yield curve","authors":"Olesya V. Grishchenko , Franck Moraux , Olga Pakulyak","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.07.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.07.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We construct the French nominal yield curve using Svensson<span><sup>33</sup></span> methodology and all available public data of French nominal government debt securities—<em>Obligations Assimilables du Trésor</em> (OATs). Our sample period starts in October 1987 and ends in April 2018. We find that the functioning of the French sovereign bond market has improved dramatically following the onset of the euro area and has been functioning reasonably well since then, with the exceptions of the Global Financial Crisis period and the European sovereign crisis period. We also find that, the French nominal on-the-run securities have, on average, a negligible liquidity premium, in sharp contrast to the U.S. nominal Treasury market, where such a premium is sizable. On average, the level and the slope of the French zero-coupon rates have been decreasing since the Global Financial Crisis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 49-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.07.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126105938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Should asset managers pay for economic research? A machine learning evaluation","authors":"Krzysztof Rybinski","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper presents the first-ever comparison of the forecasting power of two types of narratives: articles in a major daily newspaper and regular research reports released by professional forecasters. The applied testing methodology developed in <sup>22</sup> and extended in this paper includes two natural language processing (NLP) techniques – the sentiment analysis and the wordscores model – that are used to convert the text corpora into the NLP indices. These indices are explanatory variables in linear regression, Granger causality test, vector autoregressive model and random forest model. The paper extends this methodology by applying Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to the newspaper corpus to filter out articles that discuss topics not relevant for economic and financial analysis. The forecasting test is conducted for two major banks in Poland – BZ WBK and mbank and for major daily newspaper Rzeczpospolita, in Polish. It is shown that mbank narratives have the best forecasting power, while BZ WBK and Rzeczpospolita trade second and third place depending on the model applied. In the vast majority of analyzed cases adding an NLP index to the model improves the forecast accuracy. The answer to the title question is – it depends. Before paying for economic research asset managers are advised to apply methods such as presented in this paper to evaluate whether sell-side research offers any forecasting value in comparison with a newspaper.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 31-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.08.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117330867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rollover risk and credit spreads in the financial crisis of 2008","authors":"Grace Xing Hu","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.06.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper investigates the asset pricing implications of rollover risk, i.e., the risk that firms might not be able to refinance their due liabilities. I find that firm-specific rollover risk coupled with deteriorating credit market conditions significantly increase firms' credit spreads. During the 2008–2009 financial crisis period, the one-year CDS spreads for high rollover risk firms are 32–72 basis points higher than the spreads of low rollover risk firms. Longer maturity CDS spreads show similar patterns with smaller magnitudes. During normal periods, however, CDS spreads are mostly explained by fundamental variables and rollover risk is not a significant determinant. Similar rollover risk effect is also observed in other financial markets, including corporate bond, stock, and options markets.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.06.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128765111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forecasting multinomial stock returns using machine learning methods","authors":"Lauri Nevasalmi","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.09.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, the daily returns of the S&P 500 stock market index are predicted using a variety of different machine learning methods. We propose a new multinomial classification approach to forecasting stock returns. The multinomial approach can isolate the noisy fluctuation around zero return and allows us to focus on predicting the more informative large absolute returns. Our in-sample and out-of-sample forecasting results indicate significant return predictability from a statistical point of view. Moreover, all the machine learning methods considered outperform the benchmark buy-and-hold strategy in a real-life trading simulation. The gradient boosting machine is the top-performer in terms of both the statistical and economic evaluation criteria.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"6 ","pages":"Pages 86-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.09.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136699938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of rare events: A machine learning toolkit with an application to banking crises","authors":"Jérôme Coffinet , Jean-Noël Kien","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.04.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2020.04.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We propose a machine learning toolkit applied to the detection of rare events, namely banking crises. For this purpose, we consider a broad set of macroeconomic series (credit-to-GDP gap, house prices, stock prices, inflation rates, long-term and short-term interest rates, etc.), in combination with their leads and lags, various filtering methodologies, and datascience models that complement time series analysis. The main advantages of the approach are its robustness, its flexibility and its prediction performance. Based on the best model specification, our methodology allows to compute an indicator for the probability of banking crisis along with an alert threshold up to 6 quarters ahead in real time for various developed economies.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 4","pages":"Pages 183-207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2020.04.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128455987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Predicting bitcoin returns using high-dimensional technical indicators","authors":"Jing-Zhi Huang , William Huang , Jun Ni","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2018.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2018.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There has been much debate about whether returns on financial assets, such as stock returns or commodity returns, are predictable; however, few studies have investigated cryptocurrency return predictability. In this article we examine whether bitcoin returns are predictable by a large set of bitcoin price-based technical indicators. Specifically, we construct a classification tree-based model for return prediction using 124 technical indicators. We provide evidence that the proposed model has strong out-of-sample predictive power for narrow ranges of daily returns on bitcoin. This finding indicates that using big data and technical analysis can help predict bitcoin returns that are hardly driven by fundamentals.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 140-155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2018.10.001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124675310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quadratic hedging strategies for private equity fund payment streams","authors":"Christian Tausch","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2019.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2019.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>To better understand the relation between public markets and private equity, we consider quadratic hedging strategies to replicate the typical payment stream pattern associated with private equity funds by traded factors. Our methodology is inspired by the risk-minimization framework developed in financial mathematics and applies the componentwise <em>L</em><sub>2</sub> Boosting machine learning technique to empirically identify feasible replication strategies. The application to US venture capital fund data further draws on a stability selection procedure to enhance model sparsity. Interestingly a natural connection to the famous Kaplan and Schoar (2005) public market equivalent approach can be established.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 127-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2019.08.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127204978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WITHDRAWN:Investor's anticipation and future market movement: Evidence of self-fulfilling prophecy effect from the The Chinese stock market","authors":"Yun Wan , Xiaoguang Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2019.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2019.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Publisher regrets that this article is an accidental duplication of an article that has already been published in <JFDS, 5/2(2019) 116-125>,<span>http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2019.04.001</span><svg><path></path></svg>.The duplicate article has therefore been withdrawn.</p><p>The full Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal can be found at <span>https://www.elsevier.com/about/our-business/policies/article-withdrawal</span><svg><path></path></svg>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 173-182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2019.04.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115156777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficiency and technology gaps in Indian banking sector: Application of meta-frontier directional distance function DEA approach","authors":"Jatin Goyal , Manjit Singh , Rajdeep Singh , Arun Aggarwal","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2018.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jfds.2018.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Government of India aims at making the Indian Banks internationally competitive. In the wake of intense competition and changing global and national business environment, the efficiency issues have emerged as an important pillar of success in the Indian banking sector. Therefore, it is an essential task to comprehend the efficiency levels of the overall Indian banking sector and also across different ownership structures (viz. Public, Private and Foreign). The present study endeavors to carry out an assessment of intra-sector efficiency in the Indian banking sector based on a cross-sectional data of 66 banks for the year 2015-16. The authors employ directional distance function based meta-frontier DEA approach and the results reveal that the Indian banking sector is 73.44% efficient. It also confirms the existence of different production functions across different ownership structures of the industry. Among the different ownership structures, the group frontier of foreign banks coincides with the meta-frontier. The group frontier of private sector banks is the second closest to the meta-frontier and public sector banks are found to be the laggards in the overall industry. The study gains special significance in the backdrop of the recommendations floated by the Reserve Bank of India and Ministry of Finance (Government of India) to consolidate the public sector banks in order to retain fewer but healthier banks. The finding of the study fully support these recommendations and affirms that consolidation in the industry will bring positive synergies and will lead to the enhancement of efficiency levels in the industry.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 3","pages":"Pages 156-172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2018.08.002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114338707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Volatility transmission in the Nigerian financial market","authors":"Ismail O. Fasanya , Mary A. Akinde","doi":"10.1016/j.jfds.2019.01.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfds.2019.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the return and volatility spillovers in the Nigerian Financial market. We specifically analyse the spillovers in the capital market, money market and foreign exchange market utilizing monthly data for the period January 2002 to June 2017. The paper employs the Diebold and Yilmaz (DY hereafter) (2009, 2012) approach to compute the total spillover, directional spillover, and net spillover indexes. We also consider the rolling window analyses to capture the secular and cyclical movement in the financial markets over the period of consideration. The paper observes weak degree of interdependence as well as cross-market spillovers among the financial instruments.</p><p>The stock market is the largest net receiver and sender of return spillovers to other markets, while the foreign exchange market is the net giver of volatility spillovers followed by the money market, and the stock market is the net recipient. In addition, return spillovers unveils slight trends and bursts while volatility spillovers show significant bursts but no trends. Concomitantly, the significant burst was attributed to the removal of currency peg in 2016 by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Our results are robust to the different VAR lag structure.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Finance and Data Science","volume":"5 2","pages":"Pages 99-115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.jfds.2019.01.003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91961006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}