Essays on asset pricing: comparisons of factor models, investigations of the roles of illiquidity, R&D investment, product market competition, and labor mobility

This thesis comprises three essays in asset pricing, with a focus on scrutinizing factor models and dissecting anomalies. In the first chapter, I compare major factor models and find that the Stambaugh and Yuan (2016) four-factor model is the overall winner in the time-series domain. The Hou, Xue, a...

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Main Author: Bu, Ziwen
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2019
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/56436/