Essays In Asset Pricing

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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Finance
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Finance and Financial Management
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2021-08-31T20:20:00-07:00
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Lopez Lira Y Ramirez, Jose Alejandro
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I exploit unsupervised machine learning and natural language processing techniques to elicit the risk factors that firms themselves identify in their annual reports. I quantify the firms' exposure to each identified risk, design an econometric test to classify them as either systematic or idiosyncratic, and construct factor mimicking portfolios that proxy for each undiversifiable source of risk. The portfolios are priced in the cross-section and contain information above and beyond the commonly used multi-factor representations. A model that uses only firm identified risk factors (FIRFs) performs at least as well as traditional factor models, despite not using any information from past prices or returns.

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Jules van Binsbergen
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2020-01-01
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