Using monthly returns for over 27,000 stocks from 49 countries over a three-decade period, we show that a multifactor model that includes factor-mimicking portfolios based on momentum and cash flow-to-price captures significant time series variation in global stock returns, and has lower pricing...

This paper re-examines the profitability of relative strength trading strategies which buy stocks that have performed well in the past and sell stocks that have performed poorly in the past. We study the changing risk patterns of the stocks that comprise this investment strategy and argue that...

This study introduces a new estimation-based bootstrap simulation procedure to test whether different returns-generating models can explain the profitability of momentum strategies first documented in Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). We incorporate simple random walk and multifactor models and allow...

This study introduces a new estimation-based bootstrap simulation procedure to test whether different returns-generating models can explain the profitability of momentum strategies first documented in Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). We incorporate simple random walk and multifactor models and allow...

We study the determinants and consequences of cross-listings on the New York and London stock exchanges from 1990 to 2005. This investigation enables us to evaluate the relative benefits of New York and London exchange listings and to assess whether these relative benefits have changed over...

This paper investigates how a foreign firm's decision to cross-list its shares in the U.S. is related to the concentration of the ownership of its cash flow rights and of its control rights. Theory has proposed that when private benefits are high, controlling shareholders are less likely to...

We review the international finance literature to assess the extent to which international factors affect financial asset demands and prices. International asset pricing models with mean-variance investors predict that an asset's risk premium depends on its covariance with the world market...

We document that there is a significant foreign influence on the risk premium of U.S. assets. Using a bivariate GARCH-in-mean process for conditional expected excess returns, we find that the conditional expected excess return on U.S. stocks is positively related to the conditional covariance of...

This paper proposes a new approach to evaluate contagion in financial markets. Our measure of contagion captures the co-incidence of extreme return shocks across countries within a region and across regions that cannot be explained by linear propagation models of shocks. We characterize the...

This paper investigates how a foreign firm's decision to cross-list on a U.S. stock exchange is related to the consumption of private benefits of control by its controlling shareholders. Theory has proposed that when private benefits are high, controlling shareholders are less likely to choose...