The profitability of analysts' recommendations is documented in numerous studies from all over the world. However, the evidence from the Polish market is relatively modest. The primary aim of this study is to fill this gap. The paper contributes to the economic literature in four ways. First, it...

The profitability of analysts' recommendations is documented in numerous studies from all over the world. However, the evidence from the Polish market is relatively modest. The primary aim of this study is to fill this gap. The paper contributes to the economic literature in four ways. First, it...

This study investigates the low-price effect on the Polish stock market. By adopting sorting, cross-sectional tests and checks of the monotonic relation, we have examined the performance of the portfolios formed on the prices of over 850 companies listed on the Polish stock market within the...

We investigate cross-sectional patterns related to dividends in the CEE stock market. We investigate a broad sample of 1153 companies from 11 countries in years 2002-2014. We use sorting and tests based on cross-sectional regression, and apply tests of monotonic relation. The principal findings...

The ability to indicate factors which best explains common variation in stock returns, is crucial to construction of a correct pricing model and forecasting equity returns. Taking into account long finance literature, firm characteristics such as market capitalization, book-to-market ration, the...

We evaluate and compare the performance of four popular factor pricing models: the capital asset pricing model (Sharpe 1964), the Fama and French (1993) three-factor model, Carhart's (1997) four-factor model, and the five-factor model of Fama and French (2015). We aim to establish which of these...

Can a short-squeeze incident trigger financial contagion over the entire stock markets? The recent GameStop frenzy provides a unique natural experiment to explore this question. In this study, we examine the static and dynamic return and volatility connectedness among the GameStop stock, the...

Interest rate changes typically affect the value of equities. However, the slow movement of investment capital may delay the transmission of this information from interest rate markets to stocks. Using a century of data from sixty countries, we demonstrate that yield curve shifts predict future...

We examine the effect of realized skewness on Chinese stock returns. We construct realized skewness by using intraday data at a monthly horizon. Our study finds a significant negative relation between realized skewness and future stock returns in both portfolio analyses and cross-sectional...