Using new data on returns and risk factors the paper considers the stock performance on the Japanese market, which is the second largest in the world and operates under unique macroeconomic conditions. We find that the CAPM model is not an adequate approach for the Japanese market. The Carhart...

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis on the stock return predictability in Turkey, January 1997 to July 2011, by employing both portfolio method and cross-sectional regressions. In the risk-related predictors, we found predictive power of beta, total volatility, and idiosyncratic...

Investor response to changes in income trust payouts is measured through the implied cost of capital, an inverse valuation metric. Income trust securities are purchased primarily for the income stream: distributions from dividends, return of capital and interest, so adverse responses to...

Using stocks traded on the NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ for the period of 1964 to 2009, this study demonstrates that, while momentum prevails among small stocks, momentum and reversals coexist among large stocks for a holding period of up to six months. The momentum/reversal divide is along the...

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether listed banks in Ghana realised higher risk adjusted return than the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All Share Index and also investigate whether listed banks offer portfolio diversification as part of investment portfolio. The study provides an insight...

A copula approach is used to examine the extreme return-volume relationship in six emerging East-Asian equity markets. The empirical results indicate that there is significant and asymmetric return-volume dependence at extremes for these markets. In particular, extremely high returns (large...

This paper examines the dynamics of stock prices in Ukraine by estimating the degree of persistence of the PFTS stock market index. Using long memory techniques we show that the log prices series is I(d) with d slightly above 1, implying that returns are characterised by a small degree of long...

Firms with higher asset growth rates subsequently experience lower stock returns in international equity markets, consistent with the U.S. evidence. This negative effect of asset growth on returns is stronger in more developed capital markets and markets where stocks are more efficiently priced,...

This study is conducted to shed more lights on the relationship between volatility and liquidity in the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). We extend the research by investigating risk premium and excess return relationship employing intraday volatility, measured by realized volatility, and...

This study investigates the relationship between the news effect and the abnormal returns. The content analysis is applied to quantify the public news related to the listed stocks in the Taiwan Stock Market. By Referring to Demers and Vega (2011), this study constructs the net optimism of public...