In this paper we examine risk-return trade-off of investing in Latin American emerging stock markets. In particular, the study seeks to examine whether equities from Latin American emerging markets might have offered the Canadian investor high returns for a relatively low level of risk when...

The current study investigates the impact of substantial economic fluctuations on household portfolios and analyzes how the fluctuations influence households' propensities to meet the capital accumulation ratio threshold of 25%. The 1992 to 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances datasets were analyzed...

Through this research, we find that the asymmetric volatility phenomenon is reversed in the Shanghai Stock Exchange during bull markets. That is, volatility increases more with good news than with bad news. This evidence is inconsistent with the US markets. Further examination of this phenomenon...

In this paper we evaluate the intertemporal pricing performance of stock return determinants over the periods surrounding, and outside of, financial crises. The analysis focuses on the variables of size, book-to-market ratio, momentum, liquidity, and higher-order systematic co-moments. The...

Considering the mean and the volatility correlation of Chinese and foreign stock market may undergo structural changes because of the reform and opening-up, the paper attempts to incorporate Markov state transition mechanism(MS) into both the VAR model and DCC-MVGARCH model at the same time....

Using a unique survey dataset, I study how financial market experts form their stock market expectations. I document a strong disagreement among experts about how important macroeconomic and financial variables are related to stock returns. The results of an analysis of the relationships between...

The purpose of the paper is to provide new insights on the relation between the value/growth anomaly and the external financing anomaly by considering an expanded value/growth indicator: free cash flow yield (free cash flows scaled by price). In line with the literature on contrarian portfolios,...