This paper provides the first study of foreign investors' trading in a sizeable European emerging stock market, using a combination of daily and monthly complete data collected at the destination. It also introduces the structural conditional correlation (SCC) methodology to identify the...

This paper provides the first study of foreign investors' trading in a sizeable European emerging stock market, using a combination of daily and monthly complete data collected at the destination. It also introduces the structural conditional correlation (SCC) methodology to identify the...

This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro-variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that countryspecific mutual funds provide...

This paper implements strategies that use macroeconomic variables to select European equity mutual funds, including Pan-European, country, and sector funds. We find that several macro variables are useful in locating funds with future outperformance, and that country-specific mutual funds...

Short sellers are perceived as informed, sophisticated investors. Yet little is known about their identity and the determinants of their performance. Using novel data of daily disclosures in Europe, we identify large short positions of individual institutions and study their performance. Hedge...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the financial performance of European socially responsible investment (SRI) funds for the period 1993-2012 in order to contrast whether there is a relationship between the application of social screening on investment decisions and the fund's financial...

Purpose - This article examines whether deviations from fundamental value or closed-end country fund's discounts or premiums forecast future share price returns or net asset returns. Design/methodology/approach - The main empirical (econometric) tool is a vector autoregressive (VAR) model. The...

In this paper, we examine whether the creation or redemption ETF shares has a measurable and significant effect on the underlying stocks' returns in the closing auction. Our findings show that ETF flow-related stock transactions significantly affect stock prices. We provide empirical evidence...

The financial channel of exchange rates operates through changes in risk-taking by investors and is reflected in the response of financial conditions to exchange rate movements. We show that stock returns also reflect the financial channel of exchange rates, with higher local currency stock...

Estimates of U.S. returns differentials have ranged from exorbitant to quite small, in part because of their volatility coupled with the relatively short time series available. We shed light on underlying drivers of returns differentials by presenting a number of decompositions: a by-asset-class...