Under the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs), the United States (US) and China have ambitious environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment plans. However, dichotomy is found in the literature about how rising ESG practices affect firm value (FV). This study examines the linear and...

This paper constructs a dual-sparse optimal mean-variance factor portfolio to improve the interpretation of the factor portfolio in a set of 187 anomaly portfolios. The dual-sparse method limits the nonzero elements of principal components (PCs) and number of factor invested in cross-section. We...

Corporate social responsibility plays an important role in developing countries achieving green economic development. Using the textual analysis of annual reports of Chinese A-share listed companies, this paper investigates the effect of managerial time orientation on their company's CSR...

Using the long-term wavelet component of monthly S&P500 excess returns as supervision information, we employ a partial least squares method to extract the common predictive information of 14 prevalent macroeconomic variables, and construct a new macroeconomic index aligned for predicting stock...

In this paper we propose an approach to measure real-time economic conditions using economic news narratives. We construct a News-based Daily Economic Condition Index (NDEI) relying on interpretable news topics estimated from the full text content of 800,000 Wall Street Journal articles. The...