"The author examines the impact of the volatility of foreign portfolio investment on the financial constraints of small firms. Using a dataset of over 195,000 firm-year observations across 53 countries, she examines the impact of foreign portfolio investment instability on capital issuance and...

In the context of Australian stockmarkets, we examine the relationship between a stock's return performance, the stock idiosyncratic volatility, and the firm's market capitalization. The paper's main conclusions may be summarized as follows. The stocks of the smallest firms markedly outperform...

In Making Payroll: Big Data on Small Business Payroll Growth and Volatility, we provide a new look at the employment challenges small businesses continue to face through the lens of payroll, growth, and volatility in this critical sector. Leveraging data from over 45,000 anonymized Chase small...

An empirical cross sectional study is presented showing a correlation between the annualized stock price volatility of very small exchange traded public operating companies and three categories of factors, which are (1) the volatility of the general market for the stock of small public...