While the positive return differential of the United States has attracted a lot of attention in the literature, the factors underlying the dynamics of the investment income balance have so far not been systematically investigated. Here, we propose a novel decomposition framework that accounts...

This paper proposes a new perspective on international capital flows and countries' long-run external asset position. Cross-sectional evidence for 84 developing countries shows that over the last three decades countries that have had on average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated...

This paper proposes a new perspective on international capital flows and countries' long-run external asset position. Cross-sectional evidence for 84 developing countries shows that over the last three decades countries that have had on average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated...

In this paper, we study if the risk associated with innovations in economic policy uncertainty (EPU), that is, EPU risk, is priced in the cross section of hedge fund returns. Based on decile portfolios sorted on the EPU beta, we show that EPU risk commands a significantly negative premium of...

This paper criticises the standard methodology used to measure the importance of different channels of risk sharing in federal states such as the one used in Asdrubali et al.'s (1996) seminal contribution. It argues that the methodology chosen in these papers systematically underestimates the...

This paper provides evidence on how corporate multinationality from the perspective of acquiring firms relates to M&A returns. Using multivariate regressions and a large dataset of over 6,000 M&As (both cross-border and domestic) by UK firms during 1987 to 2014, the paper finds multinationality...

This paper investigates whether a particular magnitude and direction of meteor showers in returns dominates the performance of domestic trading in U.S., European and Australasian global markets. Direct and indirect channels of foreign information transmission are modelled by stochastic parameter...

There is a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on asset price comovement and determinants. The empirical analysis in this paper differs in that it incorporates a channel for cross-country comovement in asset prices as well in a set of proposed asset price determinants, across...

Common predictors variables for the equity premium such as financial ratios exhibit high persistence and thus are borderline non-stationary. This article sheds light on the possibility of fractional differencing those ratios in order to attain stationarity yet preserving the long-run memory....

We test the predictability of international (sub-) sector industry returns using common fundamental ratios. For the majority of sector returns we find pervasive predictive relationships using the global price to cash-flow ratio. Furthermore, we stress the cross-dependencies between sectors and...