Essays in asset pricing
      
      
        
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Thèse de doctorat: Università della Svizzera italiana, 2014
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
       
      
      
      
        
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          My dissertation consists of three main chapters; I focus on empirical aspects of asset pricing. I identify  anomalies in equities, relate the book-to-market anomaly and the size anomaly to cash-flow risk, and  document a strong cross-sectional predictor of FX volatility returns. In the first part of my dissertation I  show that Gross Yield negatively predicts returns in the cross section of equities. In the second part  of my dissertation I explore the role of cash-flow risk in driving book-to-market and size related returns.  Furthermore, I show that equity returns increase with higher cashflow beta. In the third part I show  that the ratio of implied to historical volatility explains the cross-section of FX variance swap returns.  This ratio also predicts underlying currency returns.
        
        
       
      
      
      
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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          https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1318630