The negative relation between capital investments and subsequent stock returns, found in the United States, is not observed in Japan, which is inconsistent with the risk-based explanation. More specifically, we find no significant relation between capital expenditures ("CE") and subsequent stock...

It is well known that high-beta stocks are associated with a low alpha relative to the capital asset pricing model and to the Fama–French three-factor model. We show that the beta anomaly in the Japanese market is attributable to foreign institutional investors, not domestic individuals....

Recent evidence for the US indicates that momentum profits are conditional on market dynamics. This paper documents that the following finding holds for the Japanese market as well: momentum returns are significantly higher when the market stays in the same condition than when it transitions to...

We investigate determinants of household leverage in Japan, which did not experience the sharp rise in real estate prices and dramatic securitized mortgage market developments in the 2000s, and prove that these determinants are not universal. We employ household sample data collected during...

We investigate media influence on stock returns that are revised by sell-side analysts. Our main findings are twofold. First, post-announcement returns depend on whether the stock is covered by the media. Media-covered stocks demonstrate weaker post-announcement returns than their...

We examine empirically the long-run effects of reductions in minimum trading units (MTU) on stock prices in Japan from October 2001 to May 2008. When firms reduce their MTU, the number of individual shareholders tends to increase significantly for several years. We estimate buy-and-hold abnormal...

This paper examines the determinants of credit default swap (CDS) premiums by applying a limited dependent variable simultaneous equation system to a unique set of time series data for the Japanese credit market. The estimation results indicate that CDS premiums decrease as a result of an...