This paper explores the inter-market linkages and the transmission of financial information among the capital markets of five South-Eastern European countries and their relationships with some of the mature markets. The Johansen co-integration framework pointed to the existence of one...

Recent research suggests that machine learning models dominate traditional linear models in predicting cross-sectional stock returns. We confirm this finding when predicting one-month forward-looking returns based on a set of common stock characteristics, including predictors such as short-term...

This paper finds strong evidence of predictability in Brady bonds, the most liquid emerging debt market, by implementing a new model for credit spreads. Predictability is economically and statistically significant and robust to various considerations. Active management provides US investors in...

This paper provides new evidence on the empirical success of structural models in explaining corporate credit risk changes. A parsimonious set of common factors and firm-level fundamentals, inspired by structural models, explains more than 54% (67%) of the variation in credit spread changes for...

In this paper, we examine returns in the Chinese A and B stock markets for evidence of calendar anomalies. We find that both cultural and structural (segmentation) factors play an important role in influencing the pricing of both A- and B-shares in China. There is some evidence of a February...

In the past few years there has been a large increase in portfolio capital flows into emerging markets, mostly fueled by mutual funds and other institutional investors. Based on a simple variance ratio test, this paper finds that emerging stock markets as a group experienced a sharp increase in...

This paper finds strong evidence of predictability in Brady bonds, the most liquid emerging debt market, by implementing a new model for credit spreads. Predictability is economically and statistically significant and robust to various considerations. Active management provides US investors in...

Prior empirical evidence regarding the impact of dividend taxes, corporate taxes, and corporate governance on firm valuation is inconclusive. This study avoids some of the complications encountered in previous empirical work by exploiting institutional characteristics of REITs, such as their...

The FIFA World Cup™ is not only one of the most popular sporting events in the world: it is also famous for the extraordinary amount of sponsorship fees it attracts. To make sense economically, these sponsorship expenses should promise future cash flows that would make the investment...

We introduce the notion of a patience premium, which is based on the concept of ambiguity aversion and is an ambiguity premium. We identify three reasons for the existence of the patience premium: Certainty preferences: perceived confidence in the expected performance; Comparison with peers:...