Journals Information
Advances in Economics and Business Vol. 4(12), pp. 667 - 673
DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2016.041205
Reprint (PDF) (379Kb)
Credit Risk and Lottery-type Stocks: Evidence from Taiwan
Lu Chia-Wu *
Department of Finance and Cooperative Management, National Taipei University, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
This study explores the effect of credit risk on the lottery-type stocks with Taiwan's data during the sample period 2001 to 2010. The lottery-type stocks are identified as the criteria referring to Kumar [1], which have characters of lower stock price, higher idiosyncratic volatility, and higher idiosyncratic skewness. Refer to Merton [2] and Vassalou & Xing [3], a firm's credit risk is proxied by the DLI (default likelihood indicators). The main results show that the lottery-type stocks have higher default probabilities, smaller firm sizes and higher B/M (book to market) ratio comparing to the non-lottery type ones. By adding default likelihood indicator into the Carhart [4] model, the empirical results demonstrate that a firm's credit situation change has significant negative effect on return of equity; lottery-type stocks equity returns are less sensitive to default risk going higher. Furthermore, this research also shows there exists a structure change resulted from the financial tsunami, indicating the investors require more positive excess returns to compensate their risk for holding stocks after 2008 financial crisis.
KEYWORDS
Lottery-type Stock, Credit Risk, Idiosyncratic Risk
Cite This Paper in IEEE or APA Citation Styles
(a). IEEE Format:
[1] Lu Chia-Wu , "Credit Risk and Lottery-type Stocks: Evidence from Taiwan," Advances in Economics and Business, Vol. 4, No. 12, pp. 667 - 673, 2016. DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2016.041205.
(b). APA Format:
Lu Chia-Wu (2016). Credit Risk and Lottery-type Stocks: Evidence from Taiwan. Advances in Economics and Business, 4(12), 667 - 673. DOI: 10.13189/aeb.2016.041205.