the purpose of this research is investigation of application of the arbitrage pricing theory and effect of unanticipated changes in a set of macroeconomic variables such as inflation rate, money supply, exchange rate, oil price, term structure and industrial production on expected security return in tehran stock exchange. in this research, data are analyzed quarterly for the period of 1997-2008...

Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) for a stock is total traded value divided by total traded volume. It is a simple quality of execution measurement popular with institutional traders to measure the price impact of trading stock. This paper uses classic mean-variance optimization to develop VWAP strategies that attempt to trade at better than the market VWAP. These strategies exploit expected...

Stock price prediction is an important and challenging problem for studying financial markets. Existing studies are mainly based on the time series of stock price or the operation performance of listed company. In this paper, we propose to predict stock price based on investors' trading behavior. For each stock, we characterize the daily trading relationship among its investors using a trading ...

In this paper we assess the role of capital-embodied technology shocks in explaining properties of the cross section of stock returns. Existing theories seem to disagree on the sign and magnitude of the price the market demands for bearing the risk of such shocks: while a negative price is necessary to justify the value premium or the cross-sectional predictability of returns by firm characteri...

The announcement of European Union enlargement coincided with a dramatic rise in stock prices in accession countries. This paper investigates the hypothesis that the rise in stock prices was the result of the integration of accession countries into the world market, and the subsequent repricing of systematic risk. The results show that firm-specific stock price changes are not related to firmsp...

The main objective of this research is to optimize the stock portfolio of investment companies operating in the field of petrochemical and refining industries through minimizing risk with respect to the expected return. In this regard, first of all, the compositions of sample firm's portfolios were investigated during 2013 to 2016 and high-weight industries were selected. Then, the risk of retu...

We solve the following three optimal stopping problems for different kinds of options, based on the Black–Scholes model of stock fluctuations. (i) The perpetual lookback American option for the running maximum of the stock price during the life of the option. This problem is more difficult than the closely related one for the Russian option, and we show that for a class of utility functions the...

in this section of the journal, a summary of theses completed at the m.b.a level is presented. the title of these are: 1- the effect of financing methods on the stock price on the tehran stock exchange by mohammad rahmani 2- the effect of money supply on the exchange rate in iran by minuo kiani -red 3- an investigation of the reasons for price volatility of stock price an tehran on the stock ex...

The cross-section of returns of stock portfolios sorted along the book-to-market dimension can be understood with a one-factor model. The factor is the nominal bond risk premium, best measured as the Cochrane-Piazzesi (2005, CP) factor. This paper ties the pricing of stocks in the cross-section to the pricing of government bonds of various maturities, two literatures that have been developed la...