Noise trader models of market behaviour propose that investor sentiment affects market responses to corporate announcements. As beliefs can be cross-sectionally heterogeneous, firm-specific investor sentiment may differ from aggregate levels of investor sentiment. Previous studies, which focus...

We determine the conditional expected logarithmic (that is, continuously compounded) return on a stock whose price evolves in terms of the Feller diffusion and then use it to demonstrate how one must know the exact probability density that describes a stock's return before one can determine the...

Despite considerable empirical evidence reporting a negative relationship between net share issuance and subsequent returns, it remains unresolved whether this anomaly is explained by risk or investor irrationality. This paper examines the net share issuance anomaly using seasoned equity...

The momentum premium is pervasive across international markets and different asset classes; however the drivers of this premium are yet to be established. This paper contributes to the literature by examining the relationship between a leading economic indicator, return dispersion, and the...

Despite an extensive number of studies documenting evidence of seasonal anomalies in developed markets, only a few studies have comprehensively examined these anomalies within emerging markets. Testing the robustness of seasonal anomalies in emerging markets would first, help to examine the...

Trend extrapolation in financial markets has been well documented, however it is contentious as to which trends will be extrapolated or mean reverted. We examine whether investors are more likely to extrapolate trends that they perceive to be salient by examining an investment strategy that...

In Australia, unlike US and European jurisdictions, the Reserve Bank of Australia discloses its stance on monetary policy via two separate events: the announcement of a monthly target cash rate for overnight loans; and two weeks later, the release of the explanatory minutes of the Board meeting...

Recent theory relates expected returns and covariant risk to the investment decisions of a firm. The irreversible nature of physical assets-in-place results in them being riskier than growth options across certain stages of the business cycle. Using the Australian accounting environment, this...