The finding that stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility tend to have low future returns, as first documented in Ang, Hodrick, Xing, and Zhang (2006), has been dubbed as the idiosyncratic volatility anomaly in the finance literature. Several studies have since explored various potential explanations of the anomalous relation between idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns. Some studies eve...

In this work we essentially reinterpreted the Sieczka Hoayst model to make it more suited for description of real markets. For instance, this reinterpretation made it possible to consider agents as crafty. These agents encourage their neighbors to buy some stocks if agents have an opportunity to sell these stocks. Also, agents encourage them to sell some stocks if agents have an opposite opport...

This paper explores whether a “value” investing strategy based upon different specifications of the residual income valuation model is riskier than a "growth" investing strategy. The paper motivates such an investigation by noting that, consistent with previous empirical work, the Ohlson (1995) model undervalues (overvalues) low (high) book-to-market stocks, whilst the Feltham-Ohlson model unde...

We apply the object-oriented robust factor analysis R package robustfa to the 28 financial indicators of the 100 listed companies in China’s Chinese Securities Index (CSI) 100 index in the first quarter of 2013. First of all, according to the size of the data, we automatically choose a robust estimator, the robust Ogk estimator. By the Mahalanobis distances which are computed by the robust Ogk ...

Because prices are a function of expected future liquidity levels, a component of unexpected returns is due to new information about future costs to trade. The first two chapters of this dissertation explore this relationship. Chapter 1 extends the Campbell (1991) return decomposition to include liquidity news, which captures the component of unexpected returns due to revisions in future expect...

Can Noise Create the Size and Value Effects? Small-capitalization and value stocks are likely to predominantly have negative noise, while large-capitalization and growth stocks are likely to have positive noise, if prices contain random noise. Negative price noise implies that small-capitalization and value stocks are more likely undervalued and thus have higher expected return than justified b...