The Great Financial Crisis of 2008 – 2009 has raised the attention of policy-makers and researchers about the interconnectedness among the volatility of the returns of financial assets as a potential source of risk that extends beyond the usual changes in correlations and include transmission...

We investigate the stock return predictability for the aggregate Central and Eastern European (CEE) markets from 1998 through the mid-2017. Using the firm-level data we construct country portfolios and sets of component portfolios: 10 industry portfolios, 10 size portfolios, 10 market-to-book...

The performance of analysts’ forecasts has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, as yet, no empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock market crashes in any depth. This paper attempts to fill...