What Goliaths and Davids among Swiss firms tell us about expected returns on Swiss asset markets

Abstract Motivated by recent US evidence, we evaluate the predictive power of changes in the weight of large firms in the aggregate stock market (“Goliath vs David” (GVD)) for Swiss stock market returns and bond market returns. Previous research suggests that the asset return dynamics in the US and...

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Main Authors: David R. Haab, Thomas Nitschka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-12-01
Series:Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s41937-019-0045-3