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Cryptocurrencies: Their Current Validity And Future As Currency And As A Part Of An Investment Strategy, Austin R. Johnson
Cryptocurrencies: Their Current Validity And Future As Currency And As A Part Of An Investment Strategy, Austin R. Johnson
Senior Theses
This paper examines the current and future prospects of cryptocurrencies with a focus on the most well-known and highest valued cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. Specifically, it will address how Bitcoin can be utilized as a currency and as part of an investment strategy and whether its utilization makes financial sense now and will in the future. The paper showcases the past behavior of Bitcoin, how the Bitcoin system functions, how Bitcoin acts as a currency, how Bitcoin can be used as an investment asset, and why it will continue to be employed as such in the future. This paper will show that …
Stock Buyback Announcements: An Examination Of Abnormal Returns In Stock Price & Credit Default Swaps For S&P100 Companies, Alan L. Delfavero
Stock Buyback Announcements: An Examination Of Abnormal Returns In Stock Price & Credit Default Swaps For S&P100 Companies, Alan L. Delfavero
Doctoral Dissertations (DBA)
This event study examines the short-run effect of stock buyback announcements on stock price and credit default swaps (CDS) exclusively for mega capitalization S&P 100 companies. The research sample consists of 53 S&P 100 companies and includes 133 buyback announcement events occurring between September 2011 and May 2018. The study utilizes the market model to estimate expected returns and to compute abnormal returns (AR) for equity and abnormal change (AC) in CDS. Based on an initial analysis, it’s determined that there is a statistically significant AR and cumulative abnormal return (CAR) for stock price, and a significant AC in CDS, …
Political Risk Effect On Financial Market Returns; Between Magnification And Neglection: Evidence From Egyptian Stock Market, Salma Mohamed Alaaeldin
Political Risk Effect On Financial Market Returns; Between Magnification And Neglection: Evidence From Egyptian Stock Market, Salma Mohamed Alaaeldin
Theses and Dissertations
There is extensive debate on whether political risk is an important factor that influences financial markets and investment decision, especially in developing economies. The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the effect of political risk on stock market returns while controlling for financial risk, economic risk, interest rates and foreign exchange rates. The main methodology involves estimating the model using a regime switching model to account for changes in volatility. The sample period starts from January 2007 to August 2017. The data includes: EGX30 returns over the period, Political risk as proxied by International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) …
Studies Of Financial Analysts: Over-Optimism, Investment Value And Herding Behavior, Tao Li
Studies Of Financial Analysts: Over-Optimism, Investment Value And Herding Behavior, Tao Li
2018
Financial research analysts are experts who analyze the financial markets and company fundamentals to make investment recommendations. Based on the US analysts’ stock recommendations, I examine the issue of financial analysts’ over-optimism, the investment value of analysts’ stock recommendations, and analysts’ leader-follower herding behavior. The goal of this thesis is to enhance the understanding of the roles that financial analysts play in promoting information transmission in the financial market. The study of analysts’ over-optimism focuses on the market reaction asymmetry. Consistent with analysts being over-optimistic, the financial market responds more strongly to analysts’ unfavorable recommendations than to their corresponding favorable …
Buy-And-Hold Versus Momentum Investment Strategies During Financial Crises, Howard Ly
Buy-And-Hold Versus Momentum Investment Strategies During Financial Crises, Howard Ly
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
In his article, “Where the Black Swans Hide & The 10 Best Days Myth,” Mebane Faber found that most of the best and worst trading days occur when the market is already declining. This phenomenon is due to increased volatility during bear markets, a result of investors’ emotions. Emotions, particularly fear and greed, lead to irrational trading behavior, resulting in rampant speculation or panic selling. Ideally, an investor would be in the market for the above-mentioned best days and be out of the market during the worst days. However, the difficulty in predicting these important dates have led some investors …
Insider Trading And The Stock Act Amendment, Josh Wilson
Insider Trading And The Stock Act Amendment, Josh Wilson
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
On April 2, 2012, Congress passed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act. The purpose of this legislation was to enhance transparency among the financial investments of Congress members, congressional staffers, and other government employees. One year later, an amendment was passed which no longer required staffers or government employees to publish their holdings online citing “national security”. Treating this event as a natural experiment, I examine whether insider trading occurred in the days leading up to and through the signing of the law by President Obama. In general, I find that portfolios of the 50 most commonly held …
Hedging With Volatility, Mário Alagoa
Hedging With Volatility, Mário Alagoa
Doctoral Dissertations (DBA)
A risk-averse investor with a long equity position is presumably interested in identifying a hedging strategy that protects the value of that investment. The common approach encompasses using either financial derivatives or holding assets (such as gold or Swiss francs) as portfolio hedges as they show negative correlation with equities. This paper proposes using volatility indexes as portfolio hedges instead; it shows that a volatility-based dynamic hedging strategy is the most effective at protecting the value of an equity investment.
Cryptocurrency: The Argument For Its Allocation Within The Traditional Investor's Portfolio, Nicholas Costanza
Cryptocurrency: The Argument For Its Allocation Within The Traditional Investor's Portfolio, Nicholas Costanza
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
This research explores the significance of cryptocurrencies upon the “traditional” investor’s portfolio, particularly elaborating on the potential returns and advocating for its allocation within any balanced (or diversified) portfolio. Cryptocurrencies are a relatively new asset and are still considered to be extremely risky. They are characterized by ever-fluctuating prices, ongoing government regulation, and overall market skepticism. However, the potential of major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ripple, Ethereum, and Litecoin) to produce major returns cannot be easily ignored. This paper builds upon the research of those in academia, as well as highly respected investors. The hope is to outline both the pros and …
A Smart Beta Approach To Fama-French And Profitability, Joseph Malgesini
A Smart Beta Approach To Fama-French And Profitability, Joseph Malgesini
CMC Senior Theses
The Fama and French five-factor model is molded into a smart beta investment strategy with strong exposure to the profitability factor. This constructed portfolio outperforms the market significantly despite an unintentional negative correlation with profitability that can be attributed to the intra-factor return correlations. The second portfolio, constructed by investing directly in profitability as represented by gross profit over total assets, outperforms both the market and the first portfolio.
Is The Accruals Anomaly More Persistent In Firms With Weak Internal Controls?, Kanishk Kapur
Is The Accruals Anomaly More Persistent In Firms With Weak Internal Controls?, Kanishk Kapur
CMC Senior Theses
In 1996, Sloan identified the accruals anomaly, in which the negative relationship between the accruals component of current earnings and subsequent stock returns can be exploited to generate excess returns. One would expect the accruals anomaly to dissipate and ultimately disappear as investors take advantage of the now-public information. However, nearly two decades later, it persists as one of the most prominent and contentious anomalies; its magnitude of current and future excess returns still remain controversial. The main reason for its persistence is that extreme accrual firms possess characteristics that are unappealing to most investors. These characteristics, which include insufficient …
The Effect Of Mandatory Adoption Of Ifrs On Transparency For Investors, Crystal Anderson
The Effect Of Mandatory Adoption Of Ifrs On Transparency For Investors, Crystal Anderson
CMC Senior Theses
This paper examines the effect of the mandatory adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) on transparency for investors by measuring the increase in earnings management during the post-adoption period of IFRS. One sign of earnings management is current year earnings being only slightly higher than the previous year’s earnings. An increase in earnings management means a decrease in accounting quality and a decrease of transparency for investors. By comparing firms that mandatorily adopted IFRS to similar benchmark firms in terms of strength of legal enforcement, book-to-market ratios, market values and net incomes, I am able to run empirical …
Worth Watching?: Assessing The Financial And Operational Health Of Netflix, Dominick Ciejka
Worth Watching?: Assessing The Financial And Operational Health Of Netflix, Dominick Ciejka
Honors Theses
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Análisis De Los Factores Que Inciden En El Deterioro De La Cartera De Consumo, De Las Personas En La Localidad De Chapinero, De La Ciudad De Bogotá, Oscar David Cubillos Ruiz, Kimberly Góngora Gutiérrez, Sandra Carolina Sepúlveda Zamora
Análisis De Los Factores Que Inciden En El Deterioro De La Cartera De Consumo, De Las Personas En La Localidad De Chapinero, De La Ciudad De Bogotá, Oscar David Cubillos Ruiz, Kimberly Góngora Gutiérrez, Sandra Carolina Sepúlveda Zamora
Finanzas y Comercio Internacional
El presente trabajo de grado tiene como finalidad delimitar y analizar los factores que inciden en el deterioro de cartera de consumo de las personas en la localidad de Chapinero en la ciudad de Bogotá, teniendo en cuenta sus características socioeconómicas, las influencias en la toma de decisiones financieras y los factores externos que inciden en el deterioro de cartera. En primer lugar, se realizó una revisión literaria de las teorías afines existentes, identificando los factores comunes, las investigaciones similares y conceptos que colaboraron para justificar la pregunta de investigación que se planteó. Luego para dar continuidad al proceso, se …