Interest Rate Risk Rewards in Stock Returns of Financial Corporations: Evidence from Germany

The interest rate sensitivity of stock returns of financial and non-financial corporations is a well-known phenomenon. However, only little is known about the part of total stock returns that is attributable to the compensation an investor receives for being exposed to interest rate risk when investing in equity securities. We pursue here a benchmark portfolio approach, constructing benchmark portfolios having the same interest rate risk exposure as a particular stock. By studying the time series of returns of these asset-specific benchmarks, we find: i) Regardless of the industry considered, the interest rate risk benchmarks of German corporations have mostly earned a significantly positive reward. ii) Returns of interest rate risk benchmarks of financial institutions exceeded significantly those of non-financial corporations. iii) An investor willing to bear nothing but the average interest rate risk of German financial institutions would have earned a mean return of about or even exceeding 70% of the corresponding total stock returns. iv) Returns of the interest rate risk benchmarks of the German insurance sector were significantly higher than those of German banks, which seems to contradict conventional market wisdom that insurances hedge interest rate risks.     

Expected Inflation, Interest Rates, and Stock Returns

This paper documents a long-lived asymmetrical relationship between interest rate changes and subsequent stock returns. Drops in interest rates are followed by twelve months of excess stock returns, while increases in interest rates have little effect. The results are robust to the choices of short-term interest rate and stock index. These findings cannot be explained by Geske and Roll's [10] reversed causality argument; nor do they appear to result from periods of unusual interest rates or stock returns. Since interest rate changes are generally used as proxies for changes in expected inflation, the results provide new insights into previous research on inflation and stock returns, and there are important implications for the literature on time-varying risk premia.     

财务业绩、投资评级与股票收益

以Z证券公司2014年5月至7月间发布的208份投资评级报告为研究样本,实证检验了上市公司财务业绩、投资评级与股票收益之间的关系.结果表明:证券分析师更倾向于给予上市公司积极的投资评级,且随着证券分析师对上市公司投资评级积极程度的增强,目标价在其未来约定的期间内越发难以实现;若投资者严格遵循证券分析师的投资评级进行投资,总体上可以获得超过市场平均收益水平的超额收益;相对于单纯考虑财务业绩或事件的投资评级,综合财务业绩与事件共同影响的投资评级会带来更高的收益.     

关于利率市场化与农村金融机构适应力研究

农村金融机构由于资产负债结构单一,在利率市场化改革中受到较大冲击.本文主要运用敏感型压力测试方法,选取我省一家县域农村金融机构——双辽农信社,衡量测算存贷款利率上升对其利润和风险的冲击,并提出应对策略.     

Mean Reversion of Short-Horizon Stock Returns: Asymmetry Property

In this paper, we explore nonlinearity inherent in short-horizon return dynamics, which is characterized by an asymmetric mean-reverting property. Over the period of 1962:07–2003:12, both daily and weekly returns of three market indexes and individual stock returns exhibit a strong asymmetric reverting pattern in which a negative return reverts more quickly, with a greater reverting magnitude, than positive returns revert to negative returns. The observed asymmetric reverting pattern is not justified under the positive relationship between future volatility and risk premium, which is a key presumption in the time-varying rational expectation hypothesis. The asymmetric reverting behavior of stock returns explored by this paper corroborates the argument for the relative performance of “winner' and “loser' stocks that has been documented by contrarian literature. JEL Classification: 14, C40, C51     

Volatility Clustering, Asymmetry and Hysteresis in Stock Returns: International Evidence

Encompassing a very broad family of ARCH-GARCH models, we show that the AT-GARCH (1,1) model, where volatility rises more in response to bad newsthan to good news, and where news are considered bad only below a certain level, is a remarkably robust representation of worldwide stock market returns. The residual structure is then captured by extending ATGARCH (1,1) to an hysteresis model, HGARCH, where we modelstructured memory effects from past innovations. Obviously, this feature relates to the psychology of the markets and the way traders process information. For the French stock market we show that votalitity is affected differently, depending on the recent past being characterized by returns all above or below a certain level. In the same way a longer term trend may also influence volatility. It is found that bad news are discounted very quickly in volatility, this effect being reinforced when it comes after a negative trend in the stock index. On the opposite, good news have a very small impact on volatility except when they are clustered over a few days, which in this case reduces volatility.     

Financial Constraints, Debt Capacity, and the Cross-section of Stock Returns

Building on a model of corporate investment under collateral constraints, we develop and test a hypothesis on the differential effect of debt capacity on stock returns across financially constrained and unconstrained firms. Consistent with the hypothesis, we find that debt capacity is a significant determinant of stock returns only in the cross-section of financially constrained firms, after controlling for beta, size, book-to-market, leverage, and momentum. The findings suggest that cross-sectional differences in corporate investment behavior arising from financial constraints, predicted by theories of imperfect capital markets and supported by empirical evidence, are reflected in the stock returns of manufacturing firms.     

对我国股票收益率与通货膨胀率关系的解释：1992-2007

股票收益率和通货膨胀率之间既可以正相关,也可以负相关。如果通货膨胀率的上升动力来自于供给冲击,那么两者负相关;如果来自于需求冲击则正相关。同一时期的正负相关关系取决于供给和需求冲击动力的相对重要性。对我国1992年5月至2007年8月实践的检验表明,整个样本期间内股票收益率和通货膨胀率相关性不明显。在1992年5月至1999年12月期间,供给冲击大于需求冲击的影响,导致股票收益率和通货膨胀率负相关,但2000年1月至2007年8月,同样是供给冲击大于需求冲击的影响,却导致两者正相关。其中的原因在于,2000年后国民经济中供需结构失衡,名义上的供给冲击转变成实际上的需求冲击,从而导致股票收益率和通货膨胀率正相关。政策当局在吸收过多流动性的同时,应加快经济结构调整,从根本上解决供需失衡问题。     

利率市场化对小微金融机构的影响及对策——以朝阳市为例

正党的十八届三中全会提出"加快推进利率市场化"的改革要求。虽然利率市场化将对我国经济平稳增长和经济结构优化调整带来深远的影响,但国际经验也表明,利率开放后市场竞争加剧也可能对金融业的平稳运行带来一定冲击。对于在我国金融体系占主导地位的银行业来说,尤其是面临冲击较大的小微银行,如何应对利率市场化的挑战,积极主动转型变革,将是今后面临的重大课题,并影响银行业的长远发展。     

Interest Rate Surprises and Stock Prices

This paper examines the impact of unexpected changes in the federal funds target on stock prices from 1988 to 2001. Measures of interest rate surprises are constructed from survey data and changes in the 3-month T-bill yield. I find that surprises associated with decreases in the target cause stock prices to rise significantly. Surprises associated with increases in the target increase stock market volatility on the announcement day, with volatility reverting to pre-surprise levels on the day after the announcement. This volatility pattern is only evident since 1994. An implication is that concerns about immediate disclosure causing persistent and heightened stock market volatility might be misplaced.     

Market Risk,Interest Rate Risk,and Interdependencies in Insurer Stock Returns: A System‐GARCH Model

We examine market risk, interest rate risk, and interdependencies in returns and return volatilities across three insurer segments within a System‐GARCH framework. Three main results are obtained: market risk is greatest for accident and health (A&H) insurers, followed by life (Life) and property and casualty (P&C) insurers; interest rate sensitivity is negative and greatest for Life insurers; and interdependencies in returns are significant with the magnitude being strongest between P&C and A&H insurers. The implication is that greatest diversification benefits arise between Life and the other segments of the insurance industry. Market risk and interest rate risk for diversified firms are smaller than those for nondiversified firms for both product and geographic diversification.     

An Investigation of the Impact of Interest Rates and Interest Rate Volatility on Australian Financial Sector Stock Return Distributions

Abstract:   This paper extends the existing literature by analysing the dual impact of changes in the interest rate and interest rate volatility on the distribution of Australian financial sector stock returns. In addition, a multivariate GARCH‐M model is used to analyse the impact of deregulation on the financial institutions sector. It was found that there is a consistent inter‐temporal trade off between risk and return over the different regulatory periods. Moreover, finance corporations were found to be highly sensitive to new shocks across the financial sector and deregulation increased the risk faced by finance corporations and small banks – effectively increasing the required rate of return and explaining the continued rationalisation of these sectors. Furthermore, deregulation has changed the fundamental relationship between interest rates and large bank stock excess returns from positive in the pre‐deregulation period to negative in the post‐deregulation period. This reflects the changing institutional environment from one of controlled credit rationing to a more competitive environment.     

Asymmetry in Stock Returns Following Block Trades on the Australian Stock Exchange: A Note

A number of recent US. studies have examined the price impact of large (block) trades using intraday data. A major finding is that the price movement following block trades continues upwards following purchases but reverses following sales. This asymmetry in price behaviour, which suggests that block sellers pay a liquidity premium while block buyers do not, has been described as 'intriguing' and a 'key puzzle'. The purpose of this note is to determine whether the phenomenon exists on the Australian Stock Exchange. Evidence consistent with the 'puzzling' asymmetry is shown to exist when returns are measured from the block trade until the close of trade. Contrary to US. findings, which have shown that prices appear to reverse following both block purchases and sales in transaction time analysis, the asymmetry in price behaviour is also demonstrated to exist in transaction returns for the ASX. All results are found to be robust to a number of research design innovations and data partitions.     

利率市场化对新型农村金融机构的影响分析

《国务院关于落实<中华人民共和国国民经济和社会发展第十二个五年规划纲要>主要目标和任务工作分工的通知》提出,由中国人民银行牵头负责深化金融体制改革工作,"稳步推进利率市场化改革"。改革开放三十多年来,我国利率市场化改革取得了令人瞩目的成就,有利地促进了我国金融体系的发展和壮大。本文以吉林省村镇银行为例,实证检验了利率市场化对于促进新型农村金融机构发展和提高抗风险能力的实际效果,对于推进利率市场化改革和新型农村金融机构培育具有双重意义。     

关于利率市场化条件下金融机构定价机制的调查与思考

近年来,随着我国利率市场化改革的稳步推进,对金融机构定价能力的要求越来越高,为进一步完善定价机制,增强金融机构的定价水平,本文对利率市场化条件下金融机构的定价机制进行了专题调研,提出了相关建议。     

利率浮动政策、差别定价策略与金融机构对农户的信贷配给

本文从不完全契约理论视角构建了利率对农村金融机构信贷供给决策影响的模型,基于该模型分析利率及其变动对农户遭受信贷配给类型和程度的影响;然后运用实地调查数据和多元Logit回归模型进行了实证分析。研究发现:利率变动与农户遭受的信贷配给程度之间存在非线性关系,利率增加先减缓农户信贷配给,而后,利率进一步提升将会导致信贷配给程度的增强;当前利率已经处在相当高的水平上,利率提升引发的信贷配给已相当明显。     

利率衍生产品需求研究——来自中国金融机构的证据

文章首先从理论上分析了金融机构对利率衍生产品的需求特性,得出了关于资产负债久期错配程度、规模和资本水平等因素影响金融机构的利率衍生产品需求的结论.在此基础上,利用有关数据对中国金融机构的利率衍生产品需求进行了实证分析,结果发现,上述因素的影响也体现在中国金融机构对利率衍生产品的需求上,但与理论分析及国外的相关实证结果存在较大差异,文章对此进行了相应的解释.     

Shareholdings by Financial Institutions, Information Asymmetry and the Intertemporal Return-Earnings Relation in Japan

Using a large sample of Japanese firms, we examine informational effects of the joint ownership of debt and equity by financial institutions. In particular, we argue that shareholdings by financial institutions are associated with increased monitoring and reduced information asymmetry. Our results support the hypothesis that stock prices incorporate information about future earnings earlier for firms with higher equity ownership by financial institutions. In a nutshell, shareholdings by financial institutions appear to be an important institutional factor in Japan to alleviate information asymmetry, thereby serving as a substitute for the market-based monitoring.     

Forecasting Japanese Stock Returns with Financial Ratios and Other Variables

This paper extends the previous analyses of the forecastability of Japanese stock market returns in two directions. First, we carefully construct smoothed market price–earnings ratios and examine their predictive ability. We find that the empirical performance of the price–earnings ratio in forecasting stock returns in Japan is generally weaker than both the price–earnings ratio in comparable US studies and the price dividend ratio. Second, we also examine the performance of several other forecasting variables, including lagged stock returns and interest rates. We find that both variables are useful in predicting aggregate stock returns when using Japanese data. However, while we find that the interest rate variable is useful in early subsamples in this regard, it loses its predictive ability in more recent subsamples. This is because of the extremely limited variability in interest rates associated with operation of the Bank of Japan’s zero interest policy since the late 1990s. In contrast, the importance of lagged returns increases in subsamples starting from the 2000s. Overall, a combination of logged price dividend ratios, lagged stock returns, and interest rates yield the most stable performance when forecasting Japanese stock market returns.     

A VARMA Analysis of the Causal Relations Among Stock Returns,Real Output,and Nominal Interest Rates

Previous research has documented a negative relation between common stock returns and inflation. Recently, Fama 3 and Geske and Roll 6 have argued that this relation results from a more fundamental one between real activity and expected inflation. Stock returns, they argue, signal changes in real activity, which in turn affect expected inflation. However, unlike Fama, Geske and Roll argue that changes in real activity result in changes in money supply growth, which in turn affect expected inflation. Empirical tests have analyzed separately each link in the proposed causal chain. In this article, we investigate simultaneously the relations among stock returns, real activity, inflation, and money supply changes using a vector autoregressive moving average (VARMA) model. Our empirical results strongly support Geske and Roll's reversed causality model.