In this paper, the author uses geometrical and topological aspects of Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to examine Standard and Poor's (S&P), MSCI's and Thomson Reuters' (TRI) ways of determining which stocks are growth and which are value. The results of the analysis are that two of the firms -...

This article derives a group of key-maturity zero-coupon yields (or spot rates) for the Chinese inter-bank Treasuries market by use of unsmoothed Fama-Bliss bootstrapping method. With the results of summary statistics and principal component analysis, we surprisingly find there are wide...

As a preliminary study of the effect of return and sampling on chaos and stochastic data pattern, this research tests chaos pattern by using Henon attractor as a sample of two-dimensional discrete chaos data with an assumption that economic and finance data are generated by low dimensional chaos...

Routinely, investors in managed funds or those they employ to assess managed funds, do so with certain parameters. Some of these parameters are not performance related (e.g., age of the fund, assets under management, type of fund) whereas there are almost always performance-related measures....

In the feld of empirical asset pricing, the challenges of high dimensionality, non-linear relationships, and interaction efects have led to the increasing popularity of machine learning (ML) methods. This study investigates the performance of ML methods when predicting diferent measures of stock...

This paper brings structural modeling to the literature on financial research in marketing. I estimate a dynamic investment-based model to understand the impact of advertising expenditures on stock returns and firm value. In addition, by interpreting advertising expenditures as an investment...

Using the results of 1068 different golf, tennis, and track & field (in particular: running) events, this paper examines the relation between athlete performance and stock returns of firms endorsed by athletes. We find that a tournament victory is associated with significant and positive...

We develop a model in which customer capital depends on key talents' contribution and pure brand recognition. Customer capital guarantees stable demand but is fragile to financial constraints risk if retained mainly by talents, who tend to quit financially constrained firms, damaging customer...

Due to the highly voluminous, heterogeneous, and unstructured nature of global business news streaming at a fast pace, it has become increasingly difficult for marketing executives, corporate communications managers, and market analysts to make sense and track news media stories addressing the...

If target prices reflect the true values of stocks, they should direct prices towards intrinsic values. But analysts’ optimism and use of less sophisticated valuation methods have been found to impede target price informativeness. We find that target price optimism has a positive effect on the...