• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권8호
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• pp.25-31
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to examine a financial distress premium in the emerging market. A risk-return trade-off of negative book equity (NBE) and distress firms is empirically analyzed using data from the Stock Exchange of Thailand. This research employs Ohlson's (1980) bankruptcy model as a measurement of distress risk. The results indicate that distress firms outperform solvent firms in the Thai market and deny distress anomaly often found in the developed market. Fama-Frech (1993) three-factor model and Carhart (1997) four-factor model verify the existence of a distress premium in the Thai capital market. Risk-seeking investors demand greater compensation for bearing risks of distress firms' going concern. This paper provides fresh evidence that default risk is a significant explanatory factor in pricing stocks in the emerging market. Also, this study sheds light on the role of NBE firms in asset pricing. Most studies eliminate NBE firms from their sample. However, NBE firms yield superior average cross-sectional returns, albeit with higher volatility. Investors are rewarded with distress risks associated with NBE firms. The outperformance of NBE firms is statistically significant when compared to the overall market. The NBE premium disappears when factoring size, value, and momentum in time-series analysis.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제7권9호
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• pp.125-134
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• 2020

This study examines the nominal price anomaly in the Vietnamese stock market, that is, whether stocks with low nominal price outperform stocks with high nominal price. Using a sample of all 351 companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HOSE) from June 2009 to March 2018, we confirm our hypothesis and document that cheaper stocks yield higher subsequent abnormal returns. The results are robust after controlling for various stock characteristics that have been documented to be value-relevant in prior literature, including firm size, book-to-market ratio, intermediate-term momentum, short-term reversal, skewness, market risk, idiosyncratic risk, illiquidity and extreme daily returns, using both the portfolio analysis and the Fama-MacBeth cross-sectional regression. The negative effect persists in the long term (i.e., after up to 12 months), implying a slow adjustment of stock prices to their intrinsic value. Further analysis show that the observed nominal price anomaly is mainly driven by mispricing but not a latent risk factor proxied by stock price, thus the observed anomaly reflects a mispricing but not a fundamental risk. The study highlights the irrational behaviour of investors and market inefficiency in the Vietnamese stock market and provides important implication for investors in the market.

• East Asian Economic Review
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.223-241
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• 2015

This paper examines the existence of value premium in the Chinese stock markets and empirically provides its explanation. Our results suggest that the value premium does exist in the Chinese markets, and investor sophistication is significant in explaining its existence. In particular, there is supporting evidence that the value premium could be driven by individual investors, whereas stocks that are mostly held by institutional investors are value-premium free. We briefly discuss the implications of our findings.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2014

Purpose - Many studies report that returns on hedge portfolios that eliminate particular risk types are abnormal from traditional asset pricing models' perspectives. This study examines the pervasiveness of anomalous returns conditioned on business cycle and group size. Research design, data, and methodology - Using KOSPI and KOSDAQ market data from July 1991 to December 2013, we categorize stocks into appropriately sized groups, and dichotomize our sample periods into expansion and recession periods then, we construct hedge portfolios by sorting stocks by anomaly variables and calculate their returns. Results - Four anomalies, including earnings yield, net stock issue, total asset growth, and liquidity appear pervasive across all groups for the entire sample period. However, only the hedge returns of net stock issues are significant across all group sizes during both expansion and recession. Conclusions - A net stock issue can be an appropriate proxy for expected growth of book equity for all group sizes in recessions. This finding could provide insights to investment industry participants and to researchers interested in the relationship between expected growth of book equity and business cycle risk.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.41-53
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• 2018

본 연구는 국내 주식시장을 대상으로 시장이상현상과 기술적 분석을 이용한 거래전략에 대해 검증하였다. 분석을 위하여 주식수익률의 특정경향이 분명하게 나타나는 기업특성 변수인 기업규모, 장부가/시가, 발생액 기준으로 10분위 포트폴리오를 구성하였다. 그리고 이 포트폴리오를 이용하여 이동평균 거래전략 포트폴리오를 형성하고 이에 대해 샤프지수를 사용하여 성과평가를 실시하였다. 또한 무비용 포트폴리오를 만들어 이동평균 거래전략의 수익성과 성공률을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 다양한 시차의 이동평균 거래전략 포트폴리오에 대한 소르티노지수를 계산하여 성과평가에 대한 강건성을 높이고자 하였다. 주요한 검증결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 기업규모가 작을수록, 장부가/시가가 높을수록, 발생액이 낮을수록 평균수익률이 높게 나타났다. 둘째, 이동평균 거래전략의 위험조정 성과는 기업규모, 장부가/시가, 발생액 포트폴리오 순으로 높게 나타났다. 셋째, 무비용 포트폴리오의 수익률은 모두 양의 값을 나타내고 성공률은 전반적으로 68.8%를 상회하여 이동평균 거래전략이 성공적이라는 것을 보여주었다. 넷째, 다양한 성과평가를 실시한 결과, 시장이상현상과 기술적 분석을 이용한 거래전략에는 경제적 유용성이 있는 것으로 나타났다.