This paper evaluates whether the new Fama-French five-factor model is able to offer a better description of emerging market equity returns than the three-factor model. Using an extensive sample of 18 countries from three different regions, the paper is the first to test the performance of the...

This paper examines the time-series predictability of reversals in an emerging stock market, Borsa Istanbul. We find that the state of the market has significant predictive power over payoffs to the contrarian strategy. The profitability of the contrarian strategy is primarily driven by...

Market makers are key entities providing liquidity to the market. Their activity has influence on transaction costs that are expressed mainly by bid-ask spreads. On unregulated markets a research is quite often cumbersome due to lack of transparent data. The paper presents factors having...

I examine intraday stock returns in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) around non-trading periods – weekends and holidays – by utilizing the exchange's structure of two trading sessions. I find that returns are generally more positive in the last session on Fridays and more negative in the...

This paper utilizes a new dataset of foreign and domestic mutual funds in Mexico to assess their behavior and obtains three new findings. First, foreign mutual funds are more sensitive to global financial conditions and engage more in herding and positive feedback trading than domestic mutual...

Using sorting, cross-sectional tests, regression, and tests of a monotonic relation, the study examines the return patterns related to seven distinct quality characteristics: accruals, bid-ask spread, balance sheet liquidity, profitability, leverage, payout ratio and turnover. The investigation...

What types of information can financial markets reflect, or even predict, about nation-level political risk? This paper will analyze the differential responses of two markets to election-related violence during an important emerging-market election. The May 2013 general election in Pakistan...

This paper examines the performance of Institutions, Foreigners and Individuals in Emerging Markets. We find that Local institutions produce better outcomes than both foreigners and local individuals on all performance measures. Comparing local individuals with foreigners we find that local...

Purpose This paper examines whether there are differences in the nature of the price discovery process across established versus emerging stock markets using a twenty-country sample. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse security returns for traces of predictability or non-randomness...

We examine underlying factors that explain an exceptionally low stock market participation rate among Lithuanian households by carrying out a comprehensive survey of mass affluent individuals. The probit regression analysis of the survey results indicates that lack of financial literacy, low...