This paper examines the impact of the Asian crisis on bank stocks across four Western countries and six Asian countries. In the second half of 1997, Western banks experienced positive returns. In contrast East Asian bank indices incurred losses in excess of 60% in each of the crisis countries....

Using monthly returns for over 27,000 stocks from 49 countries over a three-decade period, we show that a multifactor model that includes factor-mimicking portfolios based on momentum and cash flow-to-price captures significant time series variation in global stock returns, and has lower pricing...

This paper re-examines the profitability of relative strength trading strategies which buy stocks that have performed well in the past and sell stocks that have performed poorly in the past. We study the changing risk patterns of the stocks that comprise this investment strategy and argue that...