The main purpose of this comprehensive study is to determine the optimal hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness of different futures contracts traded on the Borsa Istanbul (BIST), namely the BIST 30 equity index, US dollar–Turkish lira currency futures (USD-TRY), euro–Turkish lira (EUR-TRY)...

Employing asset-pricing models over the period 2012 to 2017, this study examines whether a search attention index (SAI) explains the variation in the weekly excess return of stocks. The study finds that the estimated abnormal return of a portfolio based on search intensity is significantly high...

Using data for about 50,000 actual household investment accounts, we document that financial advice reduced investors’ tendency to leave the stock market during the market crash of 2008 and had a positive correlation with their decisions to return to the market. In addition, we provide a...

This paper compares the impact of market multiples on stock returns between emerging (ASEAN) and developed (European) financial markets. A t-test, fixed effects, and GMM are applied to a sample of 4725 firms for fifteen years. The findings show that market multiples differ across emerging and...

We study the post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD) anomaly and its determinants in Borsa Istanbul using quarterly earnings announcements and three different surprise measures. We find evidence supportive of the existence of PEAD in the Turkish stock market. Sorting stocks each quarter into...

This study shows how correlated information consumption (CIC) of retail investors relates to comovement in stock market outcomes. We construct clusters of stocks with CIC by employing network analysis on Google co-search data. We predict significant comovement in returns and liquidity of stocks...

The recent 50% drop in the price of the flagship cryptocurrency Bitcoin reinforces the persistent anxiety among cryptocurrency investors. Can alternative assets hedge Bitcoin risk? This study investigates the ability of equities, commodities, bonds, currencies, and VIX futures to hedge Bitcoin....

Momentum, size, and low volatility in emerging markets regularly exhibit increased correlations across factors and markets in periods of negative returns. I provide a framework to distinguish a unique source of risk from a set of factors in the stage of portfolio formation. The framework is...

Although many papers have examined the Saudi stock market, to date none have explored the influence of religiosity on the behavior of stock prices, taking into account the dominance of individual investors. These characteristics distinguish the Saudi stock market from other mature and immature...

We mathematically show that, no matter how many factors are added to the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), beta will always matter. We also show that adding more factors to a single-factor CAPM requires market risk premiums to be modeled as time varying. In addition to allowing time-varying...