{"title":"Securities transaction taxes and stock price informativeness: evidence for France and Italy","authors":"Paulo Pereira da Silva","doi":"10.1007/s11408-023-00430-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-023-00430-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81424429","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What we know about the low-risk anomaly: a literature review","authors":"Joshua Traut","doi":"10.1007/s11408-023-00427-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-023-00427-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73140275","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beta estimation in the European network regulation context: what matters, what doesn't, and what is indispensable.","authors":"Dmitry Bazhutov, André Betzer, Richard Stehle","doi":"10.1007/s11408-023-00428-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11408-023-00428-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most studies on beta estimation look at the whole universe of stocks. We focus on a small subset that consists of stocks of companies which are subject to European network regulation. This allows us to examine beta time series of individual stocks and small peer groups in great detail. Our most important conclusions are: (1) Sudden beta increases or decreases occur that often last only short periods of time and may therefore cause a significant misestimation of the future beta. (2) Three- and especially five-year betas are much more stable than one-year betas. (3) The choice between purely local, European or global betas may matter considerably. (4) Weekly or daily betas seem to be better than monthly ones. (5) Vasicek and Blume adjustments towards one lead to beta predictions that are too high.</p>","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10131524/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9686600","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":"Securitization of pandemic risk by using coronabond.","authors":"Adlane Haffar, Éric Le Fur, Mohamed Khordj","doi":"10.1007/s11408-023-00425-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11408-023-00425-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article investigates the pandemic risk coverage within the European Union member states through insurance securitization. This strategy allows the transfer of health risks from the insurance market to the financial markets. We focus on the financial market crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to securitize the losses caused by the latter. Over the period from 24/01/2020 (the first proven case of contamination in Europe) to 31/03/2020 (end of the dramatic decrease in financial markets), we apply the extreme value theory allowing the selection of the trigger threshold. We identify an immediate reaction of the financial markets following a pandemic shock, the effect of which fades after a few days. The response of stock market indices, measured by the fluctuation of return rates, is not very high. Nevertheless, the reaction of the financial markets is sufficient for the corona bond triggering, provided that the threshold for triggering the incidence rate is optimal. In addition, the securitization of insurance risk could be an alternative process to the classic risk transfer techniques such as co-insurance and reinsurance. Finally, a reinsurance pool dedicated to the insurance scheme's management against the effects of a pandemic is crucial for insurance securitization. These results could have implications for various actors such as insurers, financial investors, and States.</p>","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10109232/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9719880","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":"Morgan Housel: The psychology of money: timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness (Harriman House, 2020)","authors":"Joshua Traut","doi":"10.1007/s11408-022-00424-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-022-00424-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88149043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Will the reddit rebellion take you to the moon? Evidence from WallStreetBets.","authors":"Ryan G Chacon, Thibaut G Morillon, Ruixiang Wang","doi":"10.1007/s11408-022-00415-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-022-00415-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In early 2021, several stocks receiving attention from retail traders known as \"meme stocks\" soared in value. A primary source of information regarding these stocks is from the social media platform Reddit, specifically from a subreddit known as WallStreetBets (WSB).This paper investigates whether a simple and easily implementable trading strategy following the WallStreetBets (WSB) subreddit can produce alpha. We document no evidence this is the case. Though we do observe a positive relation between WSB submissions and abnormal trading volume, we find that a portfolio that goes long buy recommendations and short sell recommendations each day is not profitable on a risk-adjusted basis. Holding periods from one day to one year fail to produce alpha. These findings are robust to a variety of different portfolio formation strategies. Our results provide an early look at the data following the explosion of interest in social media inspired retail investing.</p>","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9210333/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9136202","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":"Report of the Editor 2022.","authors":"Markus Schmid","doi":"10.1007/s11408-023-00426-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-023-00426-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947874/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9138066","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":"Constrained portfolio strategies in a regime-switching economy.","authors":"Marcelo Lewin, Carlos Heitor Campani","doi":"10.1007/s11408-022-00414-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-022-00414-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We implement an allocation strategy through a regime-switching model using recursive utility preferences in an out-of-sample exercise accounting for transaction costs. We study portfolios turnover and leverage, proposing two procedures to constrain the allocation strategies: a low-turnover control (LoT) and a maximum leverage control (MaxLev). LoT sets a dynamic threshold to trim minor rebalancing, reducing portfolio turnover, mitigating costs. MaxLev calculates dynamic adjustments to the risk aversion parameter to constrain the portfolio leverage. The MaxLev adjustments depend on the risk aversion and permitted portfolio leverage, which enables optimal strategies considering the leverage constraints. The study uses US equity portfolios, and shows that, first, models with LoT result in superior return-to-risk measures than those without it when transaction costs increase. Second, considering transaction costs, the return-to-risk measures of the models using MaxLev closely match or exceed those from the corresponding unconstrained regime-switching benchmarks. Third, MaxLev returns have lower volatility and higher return-to-risk than conventional numerically constrained benchmarks. Fourth, the certainty equivalent returns indicate that models using MaxLev and LoT outperform both single-state models and unconstrained regime-switching models with statistical significance.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11408-022-00414-x.</p>","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9243879/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9129239","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":"The palgrave handbook of FinTech and blockchain","authors":"Luca J. Liebi","doi":"10.1007/s11408-022-00423-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-022-00423-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77777939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neural network predictions of the high-frequency CSI300 first distant futures trading volume","authors":"Xiaojie Xu, Yun Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s11408-022-00421-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11408-022-00421-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44895,"journal":{"name":"Financial Markets and Portfolio Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80228150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}