Purpose The purpose of this paper is to test the new Fama and French (2015) five-factor model relying on a thorough sample of hedge fund strategies drawn from the Barclay’s Global hedge fund database. Design/methodology/approach The authors use a stepwise regression to identify the factors of...

This study compares minimum‐extended Gini hedge ratios estimated by the rank‐based method of Lerman and Yitzhaki and a nonparametric kernel method. The rankbased method is more prevalent in the Gini hedging literature, however, the kernel estimator provides a more powerful approach to...

Notes the increasing importance of option‐adjusted spread analysis for pricing in the mortgage‐backed securities market and develops a partial differentiation equation method (PDE) for calculation, as an alternative to the Monte Carlo method. Discusses the mathematical theory involved and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a superior method for assessing mean stationarity of asset pricing effects. Design/methodology/approach – The authors suggest the use of an F-test to examine mean stationarity of asset pricing effects across subperiods. The superiority of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a superior method for assessing mean stationarity of asset pricing effects. Design/methodology/approach – The authors suggest the use of an F-test to examine mean stationarity of asset pricing effects across subperiods. The superiority of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest a superior method for assessing mean stationarity of asset pricing effects. Design/methodology/approach – The authors suggest the use of an F ‐test to examine mean stationarity of asset pricing effects across subperiods. The superiority of...

PPurpose – This paper seeks to identify factors potentially conditioning firms’ financial internationalization. Companies often internationalize their financial areas as part of their larger internationalization strategy. In other words, such an initiative is associated with the...

Purpose – The traditional discounted cash flows (DCF) valuation procedure used by financial analysts assumes that firms maintain a policy of fixed debt. However, empirical evidence suggests that many firms rebalance their debt. This paper seeks to explore the implication of this discrepancy...