We address the question of whether the quality of corporate values contribute significantly to improve the stock performance of banks listed on emerging stock markets in six Latin-American countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Mexico). The corporate values analyzed are ethics,...

Large-scale inference has become increasingly popular in financial economics. I explore an empirical Bayes approach to large-scale multiple testing. The proposed approach bases its inference on the posterior probability that the null is true given the observed data. It provides a convenient way...

The systemic risk induced by a connection among financial objects is generally measured by returns, volatility, interbank loans, etc. Nevertheless, these measures do not capture the microscale component of the interconnections induced by heterogeneous investor activity. In this paper, we exploit...

We discuss the finding that cross-sectional characteristic based models have yielded portfolios with higher excess monthly returns but lower risk than their arbitrage pricing theory counterparts in an analysis of equity returns of stocks listed on the JSE. Under the assumption of general...

We further the understanding of cross-sectional differences in trading activity. Specifically, we link a firm's visibility, as measured by advertising, to its stock turnover. First, we suggest three mechanisms (beyond simple awareness) capable of explaining how the repeated and consistent ads...

We implement a recursive out-of-sample method to examine anomalies-based ex-ante predictability in the cross-section of stock returns. We obtain a series of simulated out-of-sample returns, consistent with investors using only prior information when choosing predictor variables. We find that, by...

This paper first extends Sias (2004) to examine whether UK fund managers are engaged in herding behaviours in the stock market, their reasons for herding, whether their herding behaviours are different during bullish and bearish periods and whether or not their herding behaviours are...

This article investigates the impact of introduction of equity derivatives in NSE, India, on price and liquidity characteristics of the underlying. First, the effect on price is examined following an event study methodology provided by Brown and Warner (1985), where the significance of the...

The purpose of this study is to examine the weak-form market efficiency hypothesis (EMH) for 8 African Frontier markets between 2001 and 2017. To achieve this purpose, we employ unit root testing procedures which are robust to both nonlinearities and smooth structural breaks, making this study...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that shape the liquidity levels of euro area sovereign bonds. The values of liquidity measure and explanatory variables were calculated from the limitorder book dataset for almost five hundred bonds from six largest euro area sovereign bond...