Researchers in accounting have recently provided evidence of a striking increase in the usefulness of earnings announcements based on stock market price and volume reactions (Beaver et al., 2018; Barron et al., 2018). Price reactions, however, are unable to capture investor disagreement and volume...

The study focuses on the impact of COVID-19 on stock market in Asian region highlighting the impact on stock returns of 15 Asian stock markets while observing the relationship between confirmed COVID-19 cases and stock return. In this regard, daily closing price indices during the period of 1st...

We develop a general equilibrium model incorporating households with consumption habits and a government to analyze how policy uncertainty affects household consumption and stock prices. The model implies that the government should avoid policy changes if the policy uncertainty is high or an...

We study regime-specific systematic comovement between two large panels of variables that exhibit an approximate factor structure. Within each panel we identify threshold-type regimes through shifts in the factor loadings. For the resulting regimes, and with regard to the relation between any...

Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) is a critical indicator in economic studies, while it can be used to forecast a recession. Under higher levels of uncertainty, firms’ owners cut their investment, which leads to a longer post-recession recovery. EPU index is computed by counting news articles...

Meme stocks have received a lot of attention in the media from both investors and regulators in recent months. The power of the crowd, coupled with the unprecedented coordination of social media investors, raises questions about their impact on information efficiency. We construct two meme stock...

How do investors react to firms “picking sides” along ideological fault lines? Integrating strategic differentiation logic with work on ideological polarization, we argue that some investors will react positively to information that a firm supports a contested social issue and some to...

A central feature of emerging markets crises is the Sudden Stop' phenomenon characterized by large reversals of capital inflows and current accounts, deep recessions, and collapses in asset prices. This paper proposes an open-economy asset-pricing model with financial frictions that yields...

The attempt of this article is to fill a gap in the equity trading risk management literature and particularly from the perspective of emerging and illiquid financial markets, such as in the context of the Moroccan stock market. This paper provides real-world risk management techniques and...