This paper investigates how investor sentiment affects stock market returns and evaluates the predictability power of sentiment indices on U.S. and EU stock market returns. As regards the American example, evidence shows that investor sentiment indices have an economic and statistical...

Purpose: People often face constraints such as a lack of time or information in taking decisions, which leads them to use heuristics. In these situations, fast and frugal rules may be useful for making adaptive decisions with fewer resources, even if it leads to suboptimal choices. When applied...

This study develops an agent-based computational stock market model in which each trader’s buying and selling decisions are endogenously determined by multiple factors: namely, firm profitability, past stock price movement, and imitation of other traders. Each trader can switch from being a...

We re-examined the seasonal pattern in the excess returns of highly visible American firms. In contrast to the seasonality for risky, less visible firms, we found that highly visible stocks display return seasonality that shows the opposite trend. Fund managers are prone to gamesmanship, putting...

Stock markets play a dual role: help allocate capital by conveying information about firms' fundamentals and provide liquidity by quickly turning stocks into cash. We propose a trading model in which these two roles are endogenously related: more intensive use of stocks for liquidity affects...

I propose a turnover-adjusted momentum strategy and argue that it is more profitable and stable compared to the momentum strategy proposed by Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). Stocks are sorted by the moving standard deviation of the product of "share turnover ratio" and "returns without dividends"...

We study stock-picking versus asset allocation decisions and static versus dynamic strategies for Turkish markets, from October 2007 to March 2012. We find portfolio performance results to be sensitive to extant conditions such as an asset class dominating others, and thresholds and constraints...

The present paper endeavours to study the trading behaviour of foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and domestic institutional investors (DIIs) in Indian stock market. The study ascertains whether the purchase trade and sale trade behaviour of foreign institutional investors is different from...

We show that Chinese actively managed stock mutual funds persistently exhibit a preference for growth stocks over value stocks, despite the fact that value stocks outperform growth stocks on average. Moreover, funds with a growth tilt do not under-perform their value-oriented peer funds. To...

Exchange traded funds (ETFs) that track a specified index are a financial technology that has risen dramatically in the last two decades. We model an ETF's optimal index replication strategy and show that it involves underweighting or omitting illiquid index assets. Instrumenting for ETF trading...