This study investigates the presence of intraday patterns in the eleven sectors of the United States (U.S.) economy. Key contributions are in terms of assessing (i) risk and return patterns at specific time periods of the trading session on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), (ii) whether a...

This paper examines price effects related to witching days in the US stock market using both weekly and daily data for three major indices, namely the Dow Jones, S&P500 and Nasdaq, over the period 2000-2021. First it analyses whether or not anomalies in price behaviour arise from witching by...

From 1977 to 2013, bilateral stock flows between investors in the United States and foreign countries grew nearly tenfold. I study how this international flow of capital influences U.S. firm-level stock returns. I show that firms with low sensitivity to international stock flows have higher...

This paper studies the impact of international capital flows on asset prices through risk premia. We investigate whether foreign purchases of U.S. Treasury securities significantly contributed to the decline in excess returns on long-term bonds between 1995 and 2008. We run forecasting...

Using foreign institutional ownership data in the U.S. from 1990 to 2007, we examine whether foreign institutional investors face liabilities of foreignness (LOF) in the U.S. stock market. We find that foreign institutional investors prefer low information asymmetry stocks more than domestic...

This study examines the effect of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) on their underlying AmericanDepository Receipts (ADRs). We find that percentage of ADR shares owned by ETFs increasesdramatically in the past two decades. Contrary to U.S. firms, ETF ownership is positivelyassociated with stock...