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2019

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Bank Of Japan Intervention And Its Impact On Price Efficiency Of Underlying Stocks In Etfs, Kunyarat Ngamboriruk Jan 2019

Bank Of Japan Intervention And Its Impact On Price Efficiency Of Underlying Stocks In Etfs, Kunyarat Ngamboriruk

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Price efficiency of stock market is one of classic stories in financial and economics world. This paper aims at quantitatively identify the impact of government intervention in stock market on price efficiency of the stocks rather than testing whether stock market is efficient or not. The government intervention in this paper is the intervention from the Bank of Japan to stimulate Japan’s economy through the purchase of ETFs. First, we test whether price efficiency of the underlying stocks in ETFs are improved or deteriorated as a result of the intervention. The results suggest that in aggregate stocks with high exposure …


The Impacts Of Volatility Spread And Timing On Writing Non-Directional Options Strategies, Thapanon Rungwittayatiwat Jan 2019

The Impacts Of Volatility Spread And Timing On Writing Non-Directional Options Strategies, Thapanon Rungwittayatiwat

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

The study examines the impacts of volatility spread and time-to-maturity on the returns of writing non-directional options strategies on SET50 index options in Thailand Futures Exchange. The study allows to use over-lapping data for the periods of 1-month, 2-month and 3-month maturities to test with the same expiration date to examine the impacts of time-to-maturity. Also, this paper adds the data of in-the-money and out-of-the-money by 25 points and 50 points call and put options to build strangle in various moneyness to find the difference of the impact of volatility spread and time-to-maturity from various moneyness.


Investors Attention Properties Regarding Target Prices,Pe Ratios And Their Investment Implications, Poomipong Chirabandhu Jan 2019

Investors Attention Properties Regarding Target Prices,Pe Ratios And Their Investment Implications, Poomipong Chirabandhu

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Several studies have studied the return and liquidity characteristics of target price and P/E ratio trading strategy. Many previous literatures found that investors tend to pay attention to stocks with high target price expected return (TPER) and low P/E stocks. This paper tries to study further from those the previous literatures so it will examine whether investors in Thailand exhibit the attention characteristics to target price more than P/E ratio. Moreover, this paper finds investment implication of creating abnormal returns from TPER trading strategy in Thailand stock market. In this study, several approaches have been applied which are Fama-French (1993) …


Performance Of Smart Beta Etfs In Us Stocks Market, Angkawipa Kangsanarak Jan 2019

Performance Of Smart Beta Etfs In Us Stocks Market, Angkawipa Kangsanarak

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This project empirically analyses the performance of Smart Beta ETFs through absolute return, relative return and the risk-adjusted return basis over the last decade as well as examine the components of the risk factors exposure in Smart Beta strategy. The samples data that provide in this paper consists of Smart Beta Exchanged Traded Funds (ETFs) in US stocks market. The results show that Smart Beta strategy does not be able to keep up with its persistent performance through time as shown during 2009-2019 period. Moreover, there is no such year that Smart Beta ETFs could generate an abnormal return that …


How Does The Stock Market Value Bank Diversification In Thailand?, Nawarat Boonchai Jan 2019

How Does The Stock Market Value Bank Diversification In Thailand?, Nawarat Boonchai

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper investigates the impact of bank diversification on stock market-based value and risk in Thai banking system. Particularly, this paper is focused on income diversification. More specifically, the influence of various kinds of diversification business on bank risk and value is analyzed in this paper, the effect of each components of non-interest shares on bank value and risk is examined. Additionally, alternative income diversity measure is computed and used for robustness tests. The results show that income diversification has a positive influence on a bank market value. The stock market investor anticipation is that there would be more benefits …


Do Investors React To Purchase Price Allocation?, Nonthawan U-Thisanonth Jan 2019

Do Investors React To Purchase Price Allocation?, Nonthawan U-Thisanonth

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study examines the influence of Purchase Price Allocation (PPA) on investors’ decision making in Thailand by utilising the completed M&A deals which the acquirers listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand and are over 50% owned after transactions during 2010 – 2019. I investigate how purchase price allocation to goodwill impacts on stock return reaction surrounding the announcement of final PPA information and inspect an association between percentage of goodwill allocated to the identifiable intangible assets and potential earnings per share (EPS) dilution. However, I do not find the supporting evidence to indicate that the investors react to the …


Bond Market Reaction Surrounding Share Repurchase Announcement, Phasaporn Kitjakarnkoson Jan 2019

Bond Market Reaction Surrounding Share Repurchase Announcement, Phasaporn Kitjakarnkoson

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

I reexamine the bond market reaction to share repurchase announcement. The wealth transfer hypothesis suggests that shareholders expropriate wealth from debtholders hence the debtholders should react negative to this news. I collect daily yield-to-maturity of corporate bond during 2005-2019 to calculate excess change in bond yield spread and classify bond characteristics into five subsamples which are sensitive to the wealth redistribution effect: payment rank, issuer rating, bond rating, bond maturity, and size of repurchase. However, I do not find evidence supporting wealth redistribution effect in all bond attributes. Moreover, firm ratings of repurchasing firms are less likely to be downgraded …


The Commitment On The Stated Use Of Ipo Proceeds And Long-Run Performance, Vitaya Tangwongpatikul Jan 2019

The Commitment On The Stated Use Of Ipo Proceeds And Long-Run Performance, Vitaya Tangwongpatikul

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This research paper examines the relationship between the commitment to the stated use of IPO proceed and long-run performance. This also examines the effect of hot market condition on the probability of commitment. Furthermore, this paper investigates the effect of the specificity of the disclosure in the filling document on the probability of commitment. The data comprises of the firms that went public in both the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) and the Market for Alternative Investment (mai) during the period of 2000 – 2018. The stated use of IPO proceed is classified into 3 groups: Investment, Debt Repayment, and …


An Analysis Of Momentum Strategy’S Failure In Stock Exchange Of Thailand, Intha Thithapand Jan 2019

An Analysis Of Momentum Strategy’S Failure In Stock Exchange Of Thailand, Intha Thithapand

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study examines the negative return characteristic of momentum strategy, also known as momentum crashes, in Stock Exchange of Thailand from January 2001 to December 2018. This study aims to answer one main question. Do momentum crashes exist in Stock Exchange of Thailand? The result show that momentum crashes do exist in Stock Exchange of Thailand, where momentum portfolio perform poorly during panic state, defined by period that market rebound from its decline with high volatility. This poor performance is mainly driven by the option-like payoff characteristic of momentum portfolio, where the portfolio behave itself as a short call option, …


The Effect Of Control-Ownership Disparity On Earnings Management: Evidence From Korean Large Business Groups, Jaehyeok Kim Jan 2019

The Effect Of Control-Ownership Disparity On Earnings Management: Evidence From Korean Large Business Groups, Jaehyeok Kim

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This study examines the difference in the use of earnings management at family-controlled firms belonging to Korean large business groups (chaebol) versus non-chaebol firms belonging to Korean large business groups from 2002 to 2016. Firms belonging to large business groups are subject to similar regulations by authorities. This study also tests whether a divergence between voting rights and cash flow rights affects earnings management by controlling shareholders. This study examines both accrual-based earnings management (AEM) and real-activities earnings management (REM), using two measures of accrual-based earnings management and three measures of real-activities earnings management. This study finds that chaebol firms …


The Effect Of U.S. Presidential Elections On Stock Market Liquidity In Emerging Economies, Phatarakorn Thongsathit Jan 2019

The Effect Of U.S. Presidential Elections On Stock Market Liquidity In Emerging Economies, Phatarakorn Thongsathit

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

This paper examines the effect of uncertainties that arises from U.S. presidential elections on emerging stock market liquidity over five period of elections from 2000 to 2016. The U.S. presidential elections created two uncertainties, which are political uncertainty and election uncertainty, before the election day. It is argued that the political uncertainty affects the emerging stock market liquidity through the change in future macroeconomic fundamentals while the election uncertainty is an uncertainty about the eventual winner of the election that affects the emerging stock market liquidity through market sentiment. Using monthly Iowa Electronic Markets data, this paper finds the evidence …


A Neural Network-Based Method For Solving A Dynamic Investment And Consumption Problem With Transaction Costs And Stochastic Volatility, Kittipong Noonoi Jan 2019

A Neural Network-Based Method For Solving A Dynamic Investment And Consumption Problem With Transaction Costs And Stochastic Volatility, Kittipong Noonoi

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

Optimal investment and consumption problem with proportional transaction costs known as Davis \& Norman problem is a challenging portfolio free-boundary problem to solve. According to the HJB equation, see Davis and Norman (1990), there are three optimal regions i.e. no-trade region, buy region, and sell region in which different actions are prescribed. However, the two boundaries separating the three regions are unknown and it is crucial to discover them in order to obtain the optimal policy. Nonetheless, under a special class of model in which the excess return of stock is assumed to be positively linear in variance reflecting the …