We provide the first large-scale study of the performance of expected-return proxies (ERPs) internationally. Analyst-forecast-based ICCs are sparsely populated and not robustly associated with future returns. Earnings-model-forecast-based ICCs are well-populated, but are unreliable outside the...

The prevailing view of implied volatility comovements, IVC, defined as the correlation between a firm's implied volatility and the market's implied volatility, is that they indicate the presence of systematic volatility risk to the firm's investors. We take a different stance and conjecture that...

This paper investigates mispricing (specifically limits to arbitrage) as an alternative to the risk-based explanation of the globalization premium documented by Barrot et al. (2019). We document that the globalization premium is positively correlated with measures of limits to arbitrage. We...