Overreaction and the cross-section of returns: International evidence

DW Blackburn, N Cakici - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
A number of theories have linked price momentum with price reversals. While significant
empirical evidence has shown the presence of momentum in global equity returns, there have …

Risk aversion and clientele effects

DW Blackburn, WN Goetzmann, AD Ukhov - 2009 - nber.org
We use traded options on growth and value indices to test for clientele differences in risk
preferences. Value investors appear to have exhibited a higher average level of risk aversion …

Frontier stock markets: Local vs global factors

DW Blackburn, N Cakici - Gabelli School of Business, Fordham …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
We study the returns of stocks from twenty-one frontier markets divided into the four regions
of Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia from January 2006 to June 2016. Factor mimicking …

Estimating preferences toward risk: Evidence from Dow Jones

DW Blackburn, A Ukhov - Available at SSRN 890592, 2006 - papers.ssrn.com
What do investor utility functions look like? We show how returns on a stock and prices of
call options written on that stock can be used jointly to recover utility of wealth function of the …

Is trading behavior stable across contexts? Evidence from style and multi-style investors

DW Blackburn, WN Goetzmann, AD Ukhov - Quantitative Finance, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper we study priming of identity within the context of inherent vs. contextual financial
decision making. We use a sample of individual trading accounts in equity-style funds …

The magic formula: value, profitability, and the cross section of global stock returns

DW Blackburn, N Cakici - Profitability, and the Cross Section of …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
Buying profitable, undervalued stocks and shorting unprofitable, overvalued stocks yields
significant return differentials in North America, Europe, Japan, and Asia. Using data from 1991…

Individual vs. aggregate preferences: The case of a small fish in a big pond

DW Blackburn, AD Ukhov - Management Science, 2013 - pubsonline.informs.org
We study the relationship between the risk preferences of individuals and the risk preferences
of the aggregate economy. To emphasize the vast differences that can occur between …

Is World Stock Market Co-Movement Changing?

DW Blackburn, NK Chidambaran - Available at SSRN 2024770, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
We examine world stock market comovement for 23 countries over 30-years from 1981 to
2010--a period that includes major changes in international trade institutions, capital market …

[HTML][HTML] Book-to-market decomposition, net share issuance, and the cross section of global stock returns

DW Blackburn, N Cakici - Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper provides global evidence supporting the hypothesis that expected return models
are enhanced by the inclusion of variables that describe the evolution of book-to-market—…

An exhumation history of continents over billion-year time scales

TJ Blackburn, SA Bowring, JT Perron, KH Mahan… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The continental lithosphere contains the oldest and most stable structures on Earth, where
fragments of ancient material have eluded destruction by tectonic and surface processes …