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Diversifying Estimation Errors with Unsupervised Machine Learning

Unsupervised ML clustering of assets into equally weighted sub-portfolios dominates both plug-in minimum variance and equally weighted benchmarks, with optimal cluster count around …

merlin-bartel
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Survivorship and Delisting Bias in Cryptocurrency Markets

Correcting for survivorship and delisting bias substantially overturns published cryptocurrency anomaly evidence: size is overstated, while momentum and market beta no longer price …

manuel-ammann
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Parameter Uncertainty, Financial Turbulence and Aggregate Stock Returns

In this paper, we develop a novel, intuitive and objective measure of time-varying parameter uncertainty (PU) based on a simple statistical test.

Sebastian Stöckl
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Turbulence in the Cross-Section: Predicting Factor Premia

We show that parameter uncertainty based on the turbulence within each cross-section of factor portfolios produces a significant out-of-sample forecast for six out of seven tested …

Sebastian Stöckl
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Towards a Well-Founded Valuation of Managerial Flexibilities in IT Investment Projects - A Multidisciplinary Literature Review

Based on a multidisciplinary literature review, we discuss the assumptions implicit in the prevalent Black-Scholes model and argue for relaxed assumptions that better represent …

bernd-heinrich
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The Economic Benefit of Forecasting Market Components for Mean-Variance Investors

Do forecasting errors from direct predictions of market components out-way the additional errors introduced by an intermediary asset pricing model?

lars-kaiser
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