The Granger-causality effects between earnings, cash flow, and capital investment as well as on subsequent annual stock returns are examined for China in an international framework. Overall, there is a Granger causality relationship from earnings to capital investment. Furthermore, there is...

The causality relationships and cumulative impacts of the lags of earnings and the lags of capital expenditure on subsequent annual stock returns is examined using 40 different countries. The results suggest that there is a granger causality relationship from earnings to returns. Furthermore,...

In this study business cycle effects are taken into consideration in investigating the relationship between stock returns, earnings and capital expense in different countries. In countries where corporate governance rules and mechanisms are well-established, managers are closely monitored....

We re-examine the relation between stock returns and exchange rate changes in five major European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK), the USA, Canada, and Japan by taking into account dynamic effects, including lagged changes of variables, and employing causal relations....