We examined the return comovement of popular value-oriented investment strategies inside and outside equity. There are two distinct groups among the strategies that we examined. The returns of strategies within a group move together, while the returns of strategies belonging to different groups...

A growing body of literature confirms the significance of the commodity futures basis factor: It has a significantly positive premium and it explains the cross-section of commodity-futures excess returns. We extend the literature by documenting predictive relation between this factor and the...

Value premium varies substantially across countries. We explore whether the inter-country cross-sectional variation in value premium can be predicted by those variables known to predict the intra-country time-variation in value premium. After examining data from 23 developed markets and 13...

We examine whether country fundamentals help explain the cross-section of currency excess returns. For this purpose, we consider fundamental variables such as default risk, foreign exchange rate regime, capital control as well as interest rate in the multi-factor model framework. Our empirical...

This paper reports significant momentum profits among style portfolios of multiple asset classes. Previous studies have demonstrated style momentum within equity markets. The findings of this paper show that style momentum is not merely an equity market phenomenon, but a cross-asset phenomenon....

We examine whether country fundamentals help explain the cross-section of currency excess returns. For this purpose, we consider fundamental variables such as default risk, foreign exchange rate regime, capital control as well as interest rate in the multi-factor model framework. Our empirical...

We investigate a hitherto unexplored aspect of the hot money phenomenon: the effect of hot money at the individual stock level. In the South Korean stock market, foreign capital flow right before the global financial crisis can be characterized as hot money. A larger increase in foreign...