Considering that the popular Fama-French-Carhart (FFC) factors are actually long-short stock portfolios, we (i) test if the FFC six country factors are globalized, (ii) compare the pricing performance of the global, country, and local orthogonalized factors, and (iii) study the pricing...

This paper studies the cross-currency and temporal variations in the random walk behavior in exchange rates. We characterize currencies with relatively large investment flows as investment intensive and conjecture that the more investment intensive a currency is, the closer its exchange rate...

We propose a new investment strategy employing “factor funds” to systematically enhance the mean-variance efficiency of international diversification. Our approach is motivated by the increasing evidence that size (SMB), book-to-market (HML), and momentum (MOM) factors, along with the market...