In this paper an attempt was made to determine whether Price-Earnings (P/E) ratios indicate future prices or yields in Indian capital market. While the efficient market hypothesis negates the possibility of prediction, the P/E ratio supporters argue that due to exaggerated investors'...

What predicts returns on assets with "hard-to-value" fundamentals, such as Bitcoin and stocks in new industries? We propose an equilibrium model that shows how rational learning enables return predictability through technical analysis. We document that ratios of prices to their moving averages...

The paper documents evidence regarding the asymmetric short-term market reactions to analysts' recommendations, in which the favorable recommendations consistently underperform the corresponding unfavorable recommendations across ratings and revisions. This market reaction asymmetry is...

We measure the information content of monthly analyst consensus forecasts for one-year-forward earnings per share (EPS) based on two well-established price discovery measures drawn from the area of market micro-structure research. Employing a 36-year sample of large US companies listed in the...

The same firm characteristics that help explain cross-sectional variation in expected stock returns, such as size, book-to-market and the earnings yield, also help explain cross-sectional variation in returns to trading in option-implied stock return volatility. This empirical phenomenon is...

We examine the influence of investor conferences on firms' stock liquidity. We find that firms participating in conferences experience a 1.4% to 2.8% increase in stock liquidity compared to non-conference firms. Consistent with investor conferences improving firm visibility, the increase in...

We examine the performance of various types of technical trading rules in the emerging Cyprus Stock Market (CSE). Furthermore, we examine the predictability of daily returns for the CSE with respect to the extent that the technical analysis method of moving averages can win the buy-and-hold...

We examine the performance of various types of technical trading rules in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). In particular, this study examines the predictability of daily returns for the ASE by using the various moving averages rules. Due to the problem of non-normality on distribution of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine securities analyst independence in China's capital market and the effect on analyst independence of institutional investors' shareholding and separation between control rights and cash flow rights of ultimate...

One highly documented method to test a capital market for weak form efficiency is to identify the return predictability of technical trading rules in that market. Studies on these tests are fewer in number in emerging markets than that of in developed markets and most of the tests have drawn...