This paper unveils the processes for building a country's trading strategy that can outperform the MSCI Indexes and on the factor basis. By exploring the belief and experimenting with the structure in place, there seems to be enough room to build a quantitative investment strategy that generates...

In this paper, we examine the economic value of a text-based measure of financial integration. Our attention measure of financial integration is a strong positive predictor of currency excess returns. Specifically, the financial integration measure is positively priced in the cross-section of...

This paper defines risk-on risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as the variation in global investor risk aversion. Our high-frequency RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility,...