Since the discovery and the development of the financial equilibrium asset pricing models, they were constantly and repeatedly tested mainly for the big markets and scarcely for the smaller or the emerging ones. Romania belongs to the last category, hence empirical testing of these models for...

The ability to identify which factors best capture systematic return co-variation is central to applications of multifactor pricing models. In the framework of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT), this paper estimates the set of factors that influence Greek stock market returns. The estimation...

This paper identifies the macroeconomic factors that influence Italian equity returns and tests the stability of their relation with securities returns. In the sixteen-year period that has been analyzed the relation between stock returns and the macroeconomic factors is found to be highly...

This paper investigates equity return exposure to various macroeconomic factors and the performance of factor betas in predicting the cross-sectional variation in stock returns. We utilize a two-step procedure to directly test the implications of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory. First, we calculate...

In this paper, we compare the equity returns of dividend-paying and non-dividend paying firms. We find no unconditional return difference even though non-dividend paying firms have many characteristics that suggest high risk. Equivalently, because non-dividend paying firms have high...

Fama and French (1992, 1993, 1995 and 1996) declare that size and book-to-market equity (BM) have strong explanatory power for the cross-section of stock returns, and the risk captured by size and BM is the relative distress of small stocks and value stocks. Firstly, this study examines the...

This paper examines the firm-spesific characteristics that affect on equity returns depending on sector rotation scheme throughout four financial cycle stages for an important emerging market, Turkey. For this purpose, using panel data for twenty-five non-financial equities selected from ISE-100...

We study the consumption based asset pricing model in a discrete-time pure exchange setting with incomplete information. Incomplete information leads to a filtering problem which agents solve using the Kalman filter. We characterize the solution to the asset pricing problem in such a setting....

Size and book-to-market equity (BM) strongly explain stock returns’ cross section; the risk they capture is the relative distress of small and value stocks. This study examines the default risk’s pricing power, measured by U.S. firms’ market-revealed credit-default-swap premiums...

We construct new sentiment indices for UK investors and UK institutional investors based on commonly-cited indicators using the first principle component method. We find that there is one-way Granger-causality from US or German sentiment on the one hand to UK sentiment indices on the other. We...