Risk-adjusted performances of world equity indices

Atılgan, Yiğit and Demirtaş, K. Özgür (2014) Risk-adjusted performances of world equity indices. (Accepted/In Press)

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Abstract

This paper investigates whether equity indices of 24 emerging and 28 developed markets compensate their investors equally after taking risk into account, and examines the predictive power of reward-to-risk ratios for expected market returns. We place special emphasis on downside risk by calculating both nonparametric and parametric value at risk. We find that when all 52 markets are ranked based on their alternative reward-to-risk ratios, almost all of the countries in the top quartile are emerging markets whereas almost all of the countries in the bottom quartile are developed markets. The pooled means of the reward-to-risk ratios are significantly higher for emerging markets compared to those of developed markets. Our main analysis reveals that there is a significantly positive relation between various reward-to-risk metrics and expected market returns. Both portfolio analysis and cross-sectional regressions are utilized to examine this relation.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: risk-return relationship, downside risk, value-at-risk, emerging markets, 2008 financial crisis
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HG Finance > HG4501-6051 Investment, capital formation, speculation
Divisions: Sabancı Business School
Sabancı Business School > Accounting and Finance
Depositing User: Yiğit Atılgan
Date Deposited: 21 Nov 2014 23:01
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:14
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/24510

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