Investor sentiment is believed to play an increasingly significant role in business and economic activities. By analyzing data collected from a sample of listed nonfinancial firms in Pakistan for the period 2009-2018, we quantify investor behavior and how it affects market returns, cash flows,...

This study assesses the link between market efficiency proxies and the capacity of stock prices to anticipate a firm's future economic performance. The analysis, which covers firms from 31 countries in the period 1990.-2019, reveals a strong association between the average score of market...

This study examines whether ESG (environmental, social and governance) disclosure influences firm-specific crash risk. Our main research hypothesis postulates that further information disclosure about ESG activities and risks mitigates crash risk by virtue of lower opacity and information...

This paper identifies robust determinants of US stock price movements in the economic shadow of the COVID-19 crisis and in the presence of model uncertainty, using several influential factors highlighted in relevant research. Our investigation performs an extreme bounds analysis (EBA), a global...

This paper examines the relationship between idiosyncratic risk and stock returns in BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries by applying parametric and nonparametric approaches. It also explores the idiosyncratic risk puzzle by dividing firms into groups based on...

This paper examines the differences in volume, volatility and liquidity in the underlying market between intervals when futures trade and intervals when there is no futures trading using high frequency proprietary data. We find that although the bid-ask spreads decrease, this is not due to a...

By using data from thirteen publicly traded commercial and deposit banks this paper estimates the determinants of market risk for banks’ equities in the case of an emerging market economy, Turkey. The analysis reveals that maturity composition of banks’ loans, share of trading income in...

This study analyzes systemic risk contagion across the euro area by employing the Diebold-Yilmaz and the frequency connectedness methodologies with data from January 1, 1999, to January 25, 2021. We use the daily Composite Indicator of Systemic Stress (CISS) series for 11 countries in the euro...

In this paper, we investigate volatility spillovers between oil prices and the stock prices of the companies listed in Borsa Istanbul. We employ the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) and Baba, Engle, Kraft, and Kroner (BEKK) GARCH models using daily data for the period between June 22, 2015,...

This study investigates the relationship between tax expense surprise and expected equity returns in emerging markets. Using a broad sample of equities from 27 emerging countries, we find a strong positive link between tax expense surprise and the cross-sectional expected stock returns....