This paper examines if firms with the most racially diverse employees enjoy superior benefits and performance above the market average. The problem of the study is to analyze risk premiums and risk-adjusted excess returns of a portfolio of firms with most diverse employees in the United States...

This paper analyses risk premiums and risk-adjusted excess returns of a portfolio of firms with low employee turnover from 2006 to 2011. The results show that average risk premiums of an equal-weighted portfolio of firms with low employee turnover are economically superior than the CRSP...

This study investigates the joint explanation and impact of economic growth, equity market performance and economic growth uncertainty on foreign participation (using net inflows from equity securities held by foreign investors as a proxy) in local equity market. Based on the analysis of...

This study investigates the impact of economic growth risk on stock market performance in 70 countries. Based on the analysis of the full sample, on average, 1% increase in economic growth risk is associated with 0.23% (p = 0.058) increase in stock market return. Looking at stock market return...

This study analyzes stock market performance in 70 countries to determine which months generate higher returns and which months exhibit lower returns. Results from numerical analyses and t-tests show that returns are significantly higher in January, February, April, July and December relative to...

This study investigates how commercial paper rates respond to the innovations in stock market risk premiums. The unrestricted vector autoregression (VAR) analysis of monthly data from 1997:1 to 2012:M6 shows that the changes in the one-, two-, and three-month non-financial and financial...

Using the vector autoregression (VAR) analysis, this study empirically documents the impulse response functions of financial stress and market risk premiums and performs a causality test of these two variables. The analysis of the monthly changes of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis...

This paper examines if stock markets in South Asia (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) respond to the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States. Based on the analysis of monthly returns on the stock market indices in Bangladesh from 1990:1 to 2009:4, India and...

Motivated by the current financial and economic situation in Europe, this paper seeks to establish how the changes in economic policy uncertainty in Europe affect the stock market performance in the United States. Analyzing monthly index of economic policy uncertainty in Europe and monthly...

This paper investigates if the changes in economic policy uncertainty in the United States can predict the performance of stock markets in South America (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela). Based on the analyses of monthly returns of the Buenos Aires SE Merval Index...