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A multiple factor model for European stocks
We present an empirical study focusing on the estimation of a fundamental multi-factor model for a universe of European stocks. Following the approach of the BARRA model, we have adopted a cross-sectional methodology. The proportion of explained variance ranges from 7.3% to 66.3% in the weekly regressions with a mean of 32.9%. For the individual factors we give the percentage of the weeks when they yielded statistically significant influence on stock returns. The best explanatory power â apart from the dominant country factors â was found among the statistical constructs âsuccessâ and âvariability in marketsâ.Vorgestellt wird eine empirische Studie, welche die SchĂ€tzung eines fundamentalen Multi-Faktor-Modells fĂŒr ein Universum europĂ€ischer Aktien beinhaltet. Als Methode wurde in Anlehnung an die Vorgehensweise im BARRA-Modell der Querschnittsanalyse der Vorzug gegeben. Der Anteil der erklĂ€rten Varianz belĂ€uft sich in den wöchentlichen Regressionen auf 7,3% bis 66,3% bei einem Durchschnitt von 32,9%. FĂŒr die einzelnen Faktoren wird die HĂ€ufigkeit angegeben, mit der sie sich in den Regressionen signifikant erwiesen haben. Den höchsten ErklĂ€rungsgehalt im Untersuchungszeitraum hatten LĂ€nderfaktoren, aber auch Konstrukte wie âSuccessâ oder âVariability in Marketsâ
Correlations, Risk and Crisis: From Physiology to Finance
We study the dynamics of correlation and variance in systems under the load
of environmental factors. A universal effect in ensembles of similar systems
under the load of similar factors is described: in crisis, typically, even
before obvious symptoms of crisis appear, correlation increases, and, at the
same time, variance (and volatility) increases too. This effect is supported by
many experiments and observations of groups of humans, mice, trees, grassy
plants, and on financial time series.
A general approach to the explanation of the effect through dynamics of
individual adaptation of similar non-interactive individuals to a similar
system of external factors is developed. Qualitatively, this approach follows
Selye's idea about adaptation energy.Comment: 42 pages, 15 figures, misprints corrections, a proof is added,
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Networks of equities in financial markets
We review the recent approach of correlation based networks of financial
equities. We investigate portfolio of stocks at different time horizons,
financial indices and volatility time series and we show that meaningful
economic information can be extracted from noise dressed correlation matrices.
We show that the method can be used to falsify widespread market models by
directly comparing the topological properties of networks of real and
artificial markets.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in EPJ
Effect of changing data size on eigenvalues in the Korean and Japanese stock markets
In this study, we attempted to determine how eigenvalues change, according to
random matrix theory (RMT), in stock market data as the number of stocks
comprising the correlation matrix changes. Specifically, we tested for changes
in the eigenvalue properties as a function of the number and type of stocks in
the correlation matrix. We determined that the value of the eigenvalue
increases in proportion with the number of stocks. Furthermore, we noted that
the largest eigenvalue maintains its identical properties, regardless of the
number and type, whereas other eigenvalues evidence different features
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