Idiosyncratic risk has been the subject of a great deal of international financial research. However, one question remains unsolved thus far: how to introduce it in asset pricing models. The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, we propose and compare two alternative implications of...

This paper derives closed-form expressions for consumption-based stochastic discount factors adjusted by market-wide illiquidity shocks, considering both contemporaneous and ultimate consumption risk. We find that market-wide illiquidity risk is important for pricing risky assets under...

This paper examines the comovement between the Chinese and US stock markets over the period between January 4, 2000 and January 13, 2012. We show that there is no cointegration relationship between the two markets, even when allowing for structural change. Their conditional correlation...

This study explores the dynamics of the price discovery process between the regular and mini index futures traded on the Taiwan Futures Exchange (TAIFEX). In contrast to the US futures market, the TAIFEX operates under an automated electronic trading system for both types of contracts. After...

This paper analyzes the investor sentiment effect in four key European stock markets: France, Germany, Spain and the UK. The findings show that sentiment has a significant influence on returns, varying in intensity across markets. The variation appears to involve both stock characteristics and...

We exploit panel data of publicly-traded Taiwanese firms to test the pecking order theory the market timing theory over 1990–2005. On the one hand, the results indicate no support for pecking order behavior (consistent with Frank & Goyal, 2003), as net equity issues track the financing deficit...

This paper investigates the relationship between market liquidity and bank-dominated corporate governance structure of Japanese listed firms, represented as main bank relationships and cross shareholdings. We find that (i) main bank lending relationships increase market liquidity and reduce...

Consistent with economic intuition and the intuition behind momentum strategies for market timing and sector rotation based on accrual earnings (AE), we find persistence in AE growth rates at the market and industry levels in the short run, and neither persistence nor mean reversion at both...

We present empirical evidence using daily data for stock prices for 17 real estate companies traded in the Sao Paulo, Brazil stock exchange, from August 26, 2006 to March 31, 2010. We use the U.S. house price bubble, financial crisis and risk measures to instrument for momentums and reversals in...

We identify and test the structural VAR model for the relations among market volatility, market return, and aggregate equity fund flows in an international context. The major empirical findings are as follows. First, reduced-form and structural VAR analyses demonstrate that the relations among...