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Price Discovery and Asset Pricing

Westerlund, Joakim LU ; Sharma, Susan ; Narayan, Paresh and Thuraisamy, Kannan (2016) In Pacific Basin Finance Journal 40(A). p.224-235
Abstract
This paper tests the hypothesis that price discovery influences asset pricing. Our innovations are twofold. First, we estimate time-varying price discovery for a large number (21) of Islamic stock portfolios. Second, we test using a predictive regression model whether or not price discovery predicts stock excess returns. We find from both in-sample and out-of-sample tests that all 21 portfolio excess returns are predictable. We show that a mean-variance investor by tracking price discovery is able to devise profitable trading strategies.
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Price discovery, Asset pricing, Islamic stocks, Predictive regression, Out-of-sample
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Pacific Basin Finance Journal
volume
40
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A
pages
12 pages
publisher
Elsevier
external identifiers
  • wos:000389092200015
  • scopus:85028281295
ISSN
0927-538X
DOI
10.1016/j.pacfin.2016.08.009
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English
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892260a8-bd8d-4b84-ba1f-8088c8e1d25f
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  author       = {{Westerlund, Joakim and Sharma, Susan and Narayan, Paresh and Thuraisamy, Kannan}},
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  keywords     = {{Price discovery; Asset pricing; Islamic stocks; Predictive regression; Out-of-sample}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{A}},
  pages        = {{224--235}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Pacific Basin Finance Journal}},
  title        = {{Price Discovery and Asset Pricing}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pacfin.2016.08.009}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.pacfin.2016.08.009}},
  volume       = {{40}},
  year         = {{2016}},
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