R41 练习: 市场有效性

考纲范围

  • describe market efficiency and related concepts, including their importance to investment practitioners
  • contrast market value and intrinsic value
  • explain factors that affect a market’s efficiency
  • contrast weak-form, semi-strong-form, and strong-form market efficiency
  • explain the implications of each form of market efficiency for fundamental analysis, technical analysis, and the choice between active and passive portfolio management
  • describe market anomalies
  • describe behavioral finance and its potential relevance to understanding market anomalies

Q1.

An efficient market exhibits that:

A. intrinsic value is greater than market value.

B. intrinsic value is equal to market value.

C. intrinsic value is lower than market value.


Q2.

Which of the following statements is least accurate regarding an informationally efficient market?

A. Market prices can reflect intrinsic values.

B. An active investment strategy is preferred to a passive investment strategy.

C. Prices react only to the “unexpected” information.


Q3.

Which of the following is the most accurate measure of value if investors have a complete understanding of asset’s investment characteristics?

A. Arbitrage value

B. Intrinsic value

C. Market value


Q4.

An analysist estimates that the intrinsic value of a stock exceeds the market value of it. According to his estimation, this stock is probably:

A. overvalued.

B. undervalued.

C. fairly valued.


Q5.

Which of the following factors would lead to an improvement on market efficiency?

A. Number of participants decreases.

B. Restrictions on arbitrage are removed.

C. Information is less available.


Q6.

Regarding factors that influence market efficiency, which of the following statement is most accurate?

A. Lower information-acquisition costs may impede market efficiency.

B. Restriction on arbitrage will improve market efficiency.

C. The larger the number of financial analysts, the more efficient the market will be.


Q7.

When the market is strong-form efficient:

A. security prices reflect past market data only.

B. security prices only reflect past and public information, but not private information.

C. security prices reflect all past, public and private information.


Q8.

Warren initialized a free cash flow valuation model for Alibaba, expecting to explore positive alpha. The market is most likely identified as:

A. semi-strong-form inefficient market.

B. semi-strong-form efficient market.

C. strong-form efficient market.


Q9.

Consider the semi-strong form efficient market, which of the following statements is least accurate?

A. The semi-strong form encompasses the weak form.

B. Securities prices reflect all public information.

C. Fundamental analysts can consistently earn abnormal profits.


Q10.

John is a portfolio manager who mainly uses technical analysis to choose stock. If he is able to consistently gain abnormal profits, the market is said to be:

A. weak-form efficient.

B. semi-strong form efficient.

C. weak-form inefficient.


Q11.

In an efficient financial market, which of the following statements about the roles of the portfolio manager is least likely correct?

A. Portfolio managers can help establish portfolio risk and return objectives.

B. Portfolio managers can earn abnormal returns.

C. Portfolio managers can help diversify portfolios.


Q12.

If the market is semi-strong form efficient, compared with a passively managed fund, an actively managed fund will most likely:

A. outperform.

B. underperform.

C. have same return.


Q13.

An investor believes the market is weak form efficiency, he could make abnormal returns consistently by:

A. active investment based on technical analysis.

B. active investment based on fundamental analysis.

C. passive investment.


Q14.

It is observed that small-cap stocks tend to outperform large-cap stocks on a risk-adjusted basis. This anomaly is called:

A. time-series anomaly.

B. cross-sectional anomaly.

C. earnings surprise.


Q15.

Edward Danton observes that the returns of stocks in the rest of the months are considerably lower compared to January. Which of the following is least likely to explain this effect?

A. Tax-loss selling

B. Window dressing

C. Investors simply have more money to invest.


Q16.

Which of the following options is not correlated with cross-sectional anomalies?

A. Size effect

B. Value effect

C. Momentum effect


Q17.

Phillips describes himself as “rational investor”. However, once the value of his stocks declines, he always tends to hold on losers too long but sell winners too quickly, and take excessive risk in the hope of recovering. This overreaction behavior can be explained by:

A. herding behavior

B. loss aversion

C. risk aversion


Q18.

Which of the following could not explain the observed overreactions in market?

A. Herding

B. Loss aversion

C. Narrow framing


Q19.

Among the following types of behavior finance, which might be consistent with rationality?

A. Herding

B. Representativeness

C. Information cascade