This paper investigates the source of price momentum in the stock market using information from options markets. We provide direct evidence of the gradual information diffusion model in Hong and Stein (1999): momentum profits are larger for stocks whose information diffuses slowly into the stock...

Although it may be difficult for households to instantaneously adjust their stock of durable goods, they have much more latitude in adjusting the service flow from that stock. In contrast to past studies that assume service flow to be a constant fraction of the stock, we model the utilization of...

We exploit a unique dataset of country-specific military expenditures and construct a proxy for international instability, measured as the growth of the global military expenditure to GDP ratio, to capture political tensions and international conflicts. Using the market indices of 44 countries,...

Empirical evidence shows that non-instrumental information attitudes are generally prior-dependent. However, Eliaz and Spiegler (2006) show that that such an anomalous information attitude cannot be captured by “expected utility-based models” and a potential way to fix this problem is...

The upsurge of shadow banking is typically driven by rising financing demand from certain real sectors. In China, the four-trillion-yuan stimulus package in 2009 was behind the rapid growth of shadow banking after 2012, expediting the development of Chinese corporate bond markets in the...

Hedge funds with larger macroeconomic-risk betas do not earn higher returns, contrast to the theoretically predicted risk-return tradeoff. Meanwhile, high macro-beta funds deliver higher returns than low macro-beta funds following low-sentiment months, whereas the risk-return relation is flat...

We provide causal evidence for the value of asset pledgeability. Our empirical strategy is based on a unique feature of the Chinese corporate bond markets, where bonds with identical fundamentals are simultaneously traded on two segmented markets that feature different rules for repo...

Recent studies have proposed a large set of powerful characteristics-based factors in the stock market. This study examines the pricing of these factors using portfolios that are formed by directly sorting stocks based on their exposure to these factors. These beta-sorted portfolios have very...

We provide causal evidence for the value of asset pledgeability. Our empirical strategy is based on a unique feature of the Chinese corporate bond markets, where bonds with identical fundamentals are simultaneously traded on two segmented markets that feature different rules for repo...

We show that an equity pairs trading strategy generates large and significant abnormal returns. We find that two components of the trading signal (short term reversal and pairs momentum) have different dynamic and cross-sectional properties. The pairs momentum is largely explained by the one...