Employing a new proxy for liquidity, this paper examines its impact on stock returns in the context of the Fama-French framework. We augment the Carhart four-factor model with a liquidity factor in our asset pricing tests. Using an extensive dataset drawn from the Australian equities market, we...

The goal of this paper is to examine two empirical issues regarding stock liquidity: (1) to what degree are different liquidity proxies correlated? and (2) how are different liquidity proxies related to stocks' trading characteristics? Answers to these questions will help us better understand...

This article examines the link between macroeconomic variables and equity returns in Australia by testing conditional asset pricing models. We find that conditioning the Fama-French model with a series of macroeconomic variables does not considerably improve its performance. However, we do find...

We re-evaluate the cross-sectional asset pricing implications of the recursive utility function of Epstein and Zin (1989, 1991), using innovations in future consumption growth in our tests. Our empirical specification helps explain the size, value and momentum effects. Specifically, we find that...

Focussing on earnings-related rather than different classes of corporate announcements as in Chae (20056. Chae , J . 2005 . Trading volume, information asymmetry, and timing information . Journal of Finance , 60 : 413 – 42 . [CrossRef], [Web of Science ®] View all references), we examine...

Focussing on earnings-related rather than different classes of corporate announcements as in Chae (2005), we examine trading volume behaviour and the role played by informed and uninformed investors around routine and nonroutine announcements. Prior to preliminary final earnings announcements,...