In this paper, we examine the January effect in China’s A-share stock market from January 1995 to December 2019 using both the solar and lunar calendars. We find consistent with the existing literature the absence of a traditional January effect in the solar calendar; however, we observe a...

We study the relationship between the Fama and French (2015) five factors’ betas and the expected overnight versus intraday stock returns in China’s A-share markets. We find that factor betas and expected returns exhibit contrasting relationships overnight versus intraday. The market, value,...

Volatility is essential to consider uncertainty surrounding investments in financial assets. For this reason, financial industry regulators, mutual fund managers, individual and institutional investors, and policymakers are concerned about volatility. Against this background, this paper...

Investors often focus their attention on recent information only, underestimating the rele-vance of information from the distant past. In consequence, the ordering of historical re-turns robustly predicts future stock performance in the cross-section. Using data from 49 countries, we...

This study investigates the presence of intraday patterns in the eleven sectors of the United States (U.S.) economy. Key contributions are in terms of assessing (i) risk and return patterns at specific time periods of the trading session on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), (ii) whether a...

When is the best time to invest in the stock market? The paper analyzes the best and worst investment periods for each of the twelve months as well as 41 countries and 3 global regions. The paper provides an international perspective to Yale Hirsch's analysis of the United States' stock market....

Interested in fundamental analysis and inspired by Bartram and Grinblatt (2018 & 2021), we apply linear regression (LR) and tree-based machine learning (ML) methods to estimate monthly peer-implied fair values of European stocks from 21 accounting variables. Comparing LR and ML models, we...

Purpose- This study investigates the impact of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on stock prices of Indian listed companies. The literature reviews show a strong contradictory of the relationship between CSR and stock prices which is still debatable. This study will tell whether there is a...

We analyze the significance of 41 asset pricing anomalies in Latin America. We examine economic significance via portfolio simulations that dilute the effect of microcaps. To avoid reporting false discoveries, we employ a multiple hypothesis testing framework. Few anomalies are economically...

We show that the ability of oil price changes to predict stock returns is largely limited to five extreme geopolitical events: the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the 1990/91 Persian gulf war, the 1986 OPEC collapse, and the 1973 Arab-Israel war. In the counterfactual...