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Analysts' Earnings Forecasts for DAX100 Firms During the Stock Market Boom of the 1990s

Wallmeier, Martin

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2005, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 131-151

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Beyond payoff diagrams: how to present risk and return characteristics of structured products

Wallmeier, Martin

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2011, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 313-338

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How to invest over the life cycle: Insights from theory

Wallmeier, Martin ; Zainhofer, Florian

In: Journal für Betriebswirtschaft, 2006, vol. 56, no. 4, p. 219-244

Université de Fribourg

A Note on the Impact of Portfolio Overlapping in Tests of the Fama and French Three-Factor Model

Wallmeier, Martin ; Tauscher, Kathrin

(Working Papers SES ; 433)

In the three-factor model of Fama and French (1993), portfolio returns are explained by the factors Small Minus Big (SMB) and High Minus Low (HML) which capture returns related to firm capitalization (size) and the book-to-market ratio (B/M). In the standard approach of the model, both the test portfolios and the factor portfolios SMB and HML are formed on the basis of size and B/M. This gives...

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Optimal investments in volatility

Hafner, Reinhold ; Wallmeier, Martin

In: Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, 2008, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 147-167

Université de Fribourg

Perceived Attractiveness of Structured Financial Products : The Role of Presentation Format and Reference Instruments

Anic, Vladimir ; Wallmeier, Martin

In: Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2020, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 78-102

Structured equity-linked products hold a strong position in the asset universe in Europe although they are often considered to be overly complex. Their risk and return profi le is typically presented by simple payoff diagrams and verbal descriptions. We propose to complement the payoff diagrams with information on the payoff's probability distribution and study different presentation formats...

Université de Fribourg

Smile in Motion : An Intraday Analysis of Asymmetric Implied Volatility

Wallmeier, Martin

(Working Papers SES ; 427)

We present a new method to measure the intraday relationship between movements of implied volatility smiles and stock returns. It is based on an enhanced smile regression model which captures patterns in the intraday data which have not yet been reported in the literature. Using transaction data for exchange-traded EuroStoxx 50 options from 2000 to 2011 and DAX options from 1995 to 2011, we show...