In this study, we examine how idiosyncratic risk is correlated with a wide array of anomalies, including asset growth, book-to-market, investment-to-assets, momentum, net stock issues, size, and total accruals, in international equity markets. We use zero-cost trading strategy and multifactor...

We investigate what determines a stock's uncertainty elasticity of liquidity (UEL: the change in the individual stock's liquidity given the change in the market return volatility) and whether UEL is priced for China's A-shares. We find stocks with higher UEL are associated with lower share...

The understanding of the Equity Risk Premium (ERP) and the Equity Premium Puzzle (Mehra and Prescott 1985), is still widely discussed in the economic and financial literature. The purpose of this paper is to show differences in the ERP between developed and emerging markets. Using data from both...

This paper examines the dynamics of the liquidity premium in the Chinese stock market by adopting a multivariate decomposition approach to measure the individual contributions of various driving forces of the premium (such as firm size, idiosyncratic volatility, and market liquidity betas). By...

This paper examines the impact of changes in economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and COVID-19 shock on stock returns. Tests of 16 global stock market indices, using monthly data from January 1990 to August 2021, suggest a negative relation between the stock return and a country’s EPU. Evidence...

In this paper, we explore the interconnection and existing relationships between the Sovereign Credit Default Swaps (henceforth, CDS) and the stock markets of the main European countries. Thus, the goal of this paper is to test if the CDS premia can predict the stock market returns of the most...

We investigate the risk and return relationships of stocks, bonds and T-bills over the past six decades in Canada (1958 to 2017) and provide insights on some conventional folklore on a myriad of risk and return issues including investment duration. We also investigate the impact of NAFTA and the...

The ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) concept has been increasingly adopted in financial markets, this paper studies the evolving effect of corporate ESG performance on the stock returns in China’s stock markets. Utilizing the Paris Agreement and China’s President Xi’s pledge to...

I use ADRs to examine if the equity markets of Argentina, Chile, and Mexico have become internationally integrated in the post-liberalization period and, if not, whether direct and/or indirect barriers are the cause of segmentation. In addition, I assess the evolution of the level of integration...

We construct a global implied volatility surface by combining information from the index options of twenty countries and regions. The convexity of the global surface positively predicts equity premia around the world, in- and out-of-sample, at horizons from one to twelve months. Semi-annually,...