This paper investigates hedge funds' ability to time industry-specific returns and shows that funds' timing ability in the manufacturing industry improves their future performance, probability of survival, and ability to attract more capital. The results indicate that best industry-timing hedge...

Adapting the Fama-French three-factor model to a global context, this paper investigates idiosyncratic volatility as a measure of country-specific risk, and explores its determinants by using the equity and risk data of 47 developed and emerging countries during the period 1995–2016. We find...

Using the multivariate quantile model, this paper develops a global economic policy uncertainty (EPU) spillover measure for each country, and investigates the spillover effects on the country-level stock market idiosyncratic volatility across a sample of 23 economies. The regression results show...