Using a simple sign test, we report new empirical evidence, taken from both the US and the German stock markets, showing that trading behavior substantially changed around Black Monday in 1987. It turned out that before Black Monday investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after...

Using a simple sign test, we report new empirical evidence, taken from both the US and the German stock markets, showing that trading behavior substantially changed around Black Monday in 1987. It turned out that before Black Monday investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after...

The September 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers was the 9/11 on Wall Street, and many articles had been written on the changes in the global risk landscape that followed. However, there is scarcity of rigorous studies using empirical data and advanced econometric methods to verify such a change...

We examine 24 global factor premiums across the main asset classes via replication and new-sample evidence spanning 217 years of data. Replication yields ambiguous evidence within a unified testing framework with methods that account for p-hacking. The new-sample evidence reveals that the large...

Using a simple sign test, we report new empirical evidence, taken from both the US and the German stock markets, showing that trading behavior substantially changed around Black Monday in 1987. It turned out that before Black Monday investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after...

The development of Global Internet shopping has opened up exciting opportunities for finding new and efficient way of doing businesses. Although the advance in information infrastructure makes connectivity possible to reach almost anywhere in the world, it does not necessarily ensure a...

This paper proposes a statistical test for the decoupling of the comovements in the real activity of developed and emerging economies. Although globalization has shaped the world economy in recent decades, emerging economies such as China have experienced impressive growth compared to developed...

In this article, tests for globalization and contagion are separated using an ex ante definition of crises, and contagion tests are neutralized with respect to globalization effects. A large database is constructed to study the stability of correlation matrices for four asset classes: equities,...

We investigate the role of financial ratios in Japan's construction firms in explaining the propagation of financial shocks during the 2007 to 14 financial crisis. For our analysis, we applied the new approach of contagion test developed by Fry-McKibbin et al (2016) to test for contagion effect...

This paper examines if the identity shaped by the region does have an influence on the owner-manager's managerial behaviour. Two hypotheses have been formulated that are based on the identity theory saying that an individual's self consists of a set of different identities. The paper is based on...