The decomposition of a European market return into cashflow and discount rate news components suggests that returns on European and country value portfolios react more sensitive to news about the European market returnś cashflows than the corresponding growth portfolios. This evidence is...

This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro-variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that countryspecific mutual funds provide...

This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that country-specific mutual funds...

In this paper, we examine whether the size effect is present in four European markets viz. France, Germany, Spain and Italy. We also investigate whether the size effect can be explained through the sources as available in the literature. We employ prominent asset pricing models to ascertain if...