Please choose the correct answer and answer all of the following questions
1) Which of the following is not a general conclusion of studies of stock prices?
a. The serial correlation in daily returns in U.S. stocks is positive.
b. The serial correlation in longer period returns (monthly, annual) in U.S. stocks is negative.
c. Filter rules greater than 1% generally do not make money.
d. Stocks that have done well in the past are also likely to do well in the future.
e. There are more runs in daily stock prices than we would expect to find under a random walk.
d. will not change the equilibrium.
2) Which of the following is an implication of market efficiency?
a. Resources are allocated among firms that put them to the best use.
b. No investor will do better than the S&P 500 in any time period.
c. No investor will do better than the S&P 500 consistently after adjusting for risk.
d. No investor will do better than the S&P 500 consistently after adjusting for risk and transactions costs.
3) Which of the following is an attribute of futures contract?
a. There are no limits on the size of the position that any investor can take in financial futures markets.
b. Futures contracts are marked to the market on a daily basis
c. Margins for futures are more relative to other types of markets.
d. Almost all futures positions are settled by delivery.
4) A long-short investment strategy is used in the case where the target is being tracked vastly differs from a diversified market portfolio. In such a situation, a _____ model is being used.
a. multi-index
b. single-index
c. multi-asset pricing
d. value at risk
5) The fact that superior returns can not be made by selling stocks that cut dividends is evidence of:
a. weak-form efficiency.
b. semi-strong-form efficiency.
c. strong-form efficiency
6) In a CAPM framework, prohibiting short sales:
a. will prohibit investors from holding the market portfolio in equilibrium.
b. will make the security market line steeper.
c. will encourage investors to hold more riskless assets.