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The Event Clock: Identifying Physical Information from State Prices

How much of the price variation ahead of a scheduled event reflects genuine learning rather than valuation shocks? Three prediction-market venues identify the learning-spanned …

michael-hanke
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The Milei Question, or: How Liberal Are Right-Wing Populist Parties? A Measurement Approach Using Large Language Models featured image

The Milei Question, or: How Liberal Are Right-Wing Populist Parties? A Measurement Approach Using Large Language Models

Large language models are used to score populist rhetoric and four dimensions of liberalism across party manifestos, showing that right-wing populist anti-liberalism is largely …

Martin Rode
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Post-Optimal Moment Correction Aligned with the Sharpe Gap

This paper decomposes the Sharpe-ratio gap — the performance cost of estimation error in mean-variance investing — into a mean-forecast error (RAFE) and a precision-alignment error …

lukas-salcher
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Learning Before Scheduled Events: Prediction Markets, State Prices, and Option Valuation featured image

Learning Before Scheduled Events: Prediction Markets, State Prices, and Option Valuation

Options spanning a scheduled event are priced from observed event-clock inputs, with sequential overidentification restrictions tested on the Brexit referendum and on 2024 U.S. …

michael-hanke
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Are There Fences in the Global Factor Zoo?

Regional and global factor momentum signals outperform local factors in forecasting risk premiums and revitalize momentum investing in less-integrated markets like Japan.

merlin-bartel
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Stochastic Event-Outcome Probabilities and the Pricing of Scheduled Event Risk featured image

Stochastic Event-Outcome Probabilities and the Pricing of Scheduled Event Risk

We analyze event risk premia in an expected utility framework and provide closed-form solutions under both quadratic and power utility for four different cases: …

michael-hanke
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Less Is More: Ranking Information, Estimation Errors and Optimal Portfolios featured image

Less Is More: Ranking Information, Estimation Errors and Optimal Portfolios

We offer a novel approach that aims at mitigating the crippling effects that parameter uncertainty and estimation errors have on the out-of-sample perforance of mean-variance …

lukas-salcher
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Factor Chasing and the Cross-Country Factor Momentum Anomaly

We document a cross-country factor momentum anomaly, which we term 'Factor Chasing'. Specialized style mutual funds chase factor returns across countries, but their trades are …

pedro-barroso
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Breaking Bad: Parameter Uncertainty Caused by Structural Breaks in Stocks

This paper introduces break-age, a novel measure for parameter uncertainty caused by structural breaks, and demonstrates its significance in stock pricing.

lukas-salcher
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Estimating Crypto-Related Risk: Market-Based Evidence from FTX's Failure and Its Contagion on U.S. Banks featured image

Estimating Crypto-Related Risk: Market-Based Evidence from FTX's Failure and Its Contagion on U.S. Banks

We estimate crypto-related risk for U.S. banks using historical covariance with bitcoin returns, focusing on contagion from FTX's failure.

lukas-muller
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