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Lecture 7 Flashcards

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Efficient market hypothesis states

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Any information that could be used to predict the stock performance should already be reflected in the stock price

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2
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Increases/ decreases in stock prices due to

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New information (unpredictable)

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Random walk

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Stock price changes should be random and unpredictable

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If stock prices are predictable

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Stock markets are inefficient

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5
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Weak form EMH

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Stock prices reflect all past information that can be derived by examining market trading data

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Trend analysis in weak form EMH

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Pointless > any relevant information regarding the future performance will already be reflected

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7
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Semi-strong EMH

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All publicly available information regarding the prospects of a firm must be reflected in the stock price

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Strong form EMH

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Stock prices reflect all information relevant to the firm, even if only available to insiders

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Technical analysis =

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Search for recurrent and predictable patterns in stock prices

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Fundamental analysis =

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Uses earnings and dividend prospects, expectations of future interest rates and risk evaluation to determine proper stock prices

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If the present discounted value of payments stockholder received exceeds stock price

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Purchase stock

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12
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EMH predicts that the majority of fundamental analysis is

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Doomed to fail > if analysts use the same publicly available info, little different between their analysis

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13
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Investor’s trick =

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To find firms that are better than other’s estimate/ not as bad as the stock price suggests

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14
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Mututal funds benefit from

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Economies of scale

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15
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Active management according to EMH

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Largely wasted effort

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16
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EMH advocates

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The passive investment strategy > because stock prices are at fair levels, makes no sense to buy and sell frequently and incur large brokerage fees

17
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Index funds

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Designed to replicate the performance of a broad based index of stocks

18
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Firm specific risk can be eliminated through

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Diversification

19
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Tax considerations (3)

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  • Tax brackets of investors impacts their preference
  • Capital gains are taxed less heavily than dividends
  • Investment opportunities can be sensitive to tax benefits eg real estate
20
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Role of portfolio manager in efficient market =

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To tailor portfolio to investors’ needs instead of beating the market

21
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Deviations from efficiency may

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Offer profit opportunity for better informed traders

22
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Disadvantage of deviations from efficiency

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Can result in large costs > inefficient resource allocation

23
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If inefficient capital markets (2)

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  • Investment opportunities may be foregone

- Overpriced securities may be able to obtain capital too cheaply

24
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Event studies =

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Assess the impact of an event on the firm’s stock price using empirical financial research

25
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Can measure the impact of an event by

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Estimating the abnormal return of a stock at the moment the information about the event becomes known to the market

26
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Leakage information

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Occurs when information regarding an event is released to a small group of investors before public release

27
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Leakage information skews

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Abnormal returns on announcement date > therefore cumulative abnormal return better indicator

28
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Are markets efficient? > The magnitude issue

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Against large fluctuations in the market, small increases in the performance can be hard to detect

29
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Are markets efficient? > The selection bias issue

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Investors are unlikely to share successful techniques with others

30
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Are markets efficient? > the lucky event issue

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Only tend to hear about the large wins, not the corresponding losses

31
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Weak-form tests (5)

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  • Returns over the short horizon
  • Returns over the long horizon
  • Fama & French
  • Campbell & Shiller
  • Kiem & Stambaugh
32
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Fama & French

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Aggregate returns are higher with higher dividend ratios

33
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Campbell & Shiller

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Earnings yield can predict market returns

34
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Kiem & Stamburgh

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Bond spreads can predict market returns

35
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Semi-strong tests (5)

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  • PE effect
  • Small firm effect
  • Neglected firm effect
  • Book-to-market ratios
  • Post-earnings announcement price drift
36
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Strong form tests (2)

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  • Insider trading studies by Jaffe

- SEC requires all insiders to register trading activity

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