This paper empirically shows that US monetary policy influences present and future exposures of developed markets' government bond returns to measures of global, systematic risk and thus affects the time variation of returns on these countries' government bonds. This finding illustrates US...

This article examines the relationship between changes in the level of investor fear (measured by VIX) and financial market returns. We document a statistically significant relationship, across asset classes, consistent with a flight to quality as investor fear increases. As VIX increase there...

Prevailing research posits that liquidity providers bypass long queue lines on exchanges by offering liquidity in dark venues with de minimis sub-penny price improvement, thus exploiting an exception to the penny quote rule. We show that (a) the SEC enforces the quote rule to prevent sub-penny...

Using firm-level data from 23 developed markets, we document a positive association between overall firm-level governance quality and the informativeness of earnings announcements measured by abnormal stock return variance. This finding is robust after controlling for the potential endogeneity...

Using a unique intraday trade and quote data set of the Korea Stock Exchange which includes customized symbols identifying individual accounts for January 2006 to December 2006, we investigate the overnight inventory levels of day-traders to determine the factors that affect their overnight...

An investor, as Warren Buffett, said should think like a part-owner when investing in common stocks. As a part-owner, the investor should be concerned about the competitive positioning of the business he/she is invested in. A business that is relatively insulated from competitive actions, will...

The relationship between oil and stock is important because oil is the key production input for most industries and stock market performance, to some extent, reflects the economic conditions. However, the relationship between oil price and stock prices of oil and gas industry companies is more...

The study focus on the advantages and disadvantages of dividend discount model using a market based approach. The study looks at the valuation given by the market for stocks and whether that valuation is justified by returns given by the stock in the form of dividends and capital gains. The...

The paper examines the return pattern of the Indian stock market and proposes a model for long term investors by maximizing and minimizing the risk. The rolling compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of the flagship S&P BSE SENSEX index as well as CNX Nifty index is calculated over various...

The purpose of this study is to examine patterns of price limit hits for stocks listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Explanations are provided for the empirical findings and the extent to which the price limit hit patterns are related to existing stock returns patterns. We argue that if patterns...