This paper investigates whether the observed momentum effect in individual stocks, caused by positive serial correlations in monthly returns over short horizons, can be explained by fundamentalists' heterogeneous beliefs when chartists are present in the market. To this end, we propose a...

This paper investigates the performances of GMM estimates using kernel methods with and without prewhitening and the VARHAC method in a representative agent exchange economy. A Monte Carlo study is conducted to evaluate the issues of estimating the spectral density functions, e.g., parametric...

This paper investigates the performances of GMM estimates using kernel methods with and without prewhitening and the VARHAC method in a representative agent exchange economy. A Monte Carlo study is conducted to evaluate the issues of estimating the spectral density functions, e.g., parametric...

This paper proposes a novel measure of French investor sentiment based on the volume of internet search reported by Google Trends. We find that our sentiment indicator correlates well with alternative sentiment measures often used in the literature. Furthermore, we find that investor sentiment...

We investigate the effects of market structure on bank profitability in 40 emerging and advanced economies. We find that bank profitability in relation to market structure is different between developed and emerging banking markets. First, in developed banking sectors, profitability is...

This paper explores the link between industry concentration, which is a feature of the product markets in which firms operate, and the risk of a firm's cash flows, offering the first empirical evidence of the risky cash-flow implications of industry market structure. Our analysis shows that on...

This paper explores the link between industry concentration, which is a feature of the product markets in which firms operate, and the risk of a firm's cash flows, offering the first empirical evidence of the risky cash-flow implications of industry market structure. Our analysis shows that on...

This paper casts the opportunity set hedging demand in terms of the certainty equivalent of wealth for an investor who considers both consumption and bequest motives and is constrained to invest his asset proportions of wealth in a convex set. We show that the hedge portfolio exactly balances...

This paper examines the information transmission between stocks and their corresponding deposit receipts (DRs) by collecting samples with good reputations and high liquidity in both markets. Using eight years of daily panel data from six cross-listed Taiwanese firms, our results show the...

In this paper we study Norwegian rights issues with focus on the announcement effects of raising seasoned equity. The abnormal returns at announcement in Norway are around −8% to −10% for rights issues, and this is much higher than what is found in other countries. The average...