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We examine how commonality in liquidity varies across countries and over time in ways related to supply determinants … (funding liquidity of financial intermediaries) and demand determinants (correlated trading behavior of international and … institutional investors, incentives to trade individual securities, and investor sentiment) of liquidity. Commonality in liquidity …
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factor is low. (4) Increased funding liquidity risk compresses betas toward one. (5) More constrained investors hold riskier …
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with both stock return comovement and stock liquidity commonality. Third, the effect of news commonality on stock return … and liquidity comovement is higher in countries with stronger institutions than in those with weaker institutions. These …
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U.S. stocks have been shown to earn higher returns during earnings announcement months than during non-announcement months. We document that this earnings announcement premium exists across the globe. Moreover, it is not isolated to a few countries. Of the 20 countries with enough data to...
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Firms with higher asset growth rates subsequently experience lower stock returns in international equity markets, consistent with the U.S. evidence. This negative effect of asset growth on returns is stronger in more developed capital markets and markets where stocks are more efficiently priced,...
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Using the degree of accessibility of foreign investors to emerging stock markets, or investibility, as a proxy for the extent of foreign investments, we assess whether investibility has a significant influence on the diffusion of global market information across stocks in emerging markets. We...
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We construct investor sentiment indices for six major stock markets and decompose them into one global and six local indices. In a validation test, we find that relative sentiment is correlated with the relative prices of dual-listed companies. Global sentiment is a contrarian predictor of...
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We show that eurozone bank risks during 2007–2013 can be understood as carry trade behavior. Bank equity returns load positively on peripheral (Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, or GIIPS) bond returns and negatively on German government bond returns, which generated carry until the...
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We investigate the role of trade credit links in generating cross-border return predictability between international firms. Using data from 43 countries from 1993 to 2009, we find that firms with high trade credit located in producer countries have stock returns that are strongly predictable...
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improvement in liquidity and trading activity. …
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