We study the returns of stocks from twenty-one frontier markets divided into the four regions of Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia from January 2006 to June 2016. Factor mimicking portfolios based on market capitalization (SMB), book-to-market equity (HML), and momentum (WML) are constructed...

This study applied the Fama-French three-factor model (1993) and CAPM to examine A-shares in Chinese equity market from 1996 to 2005. The authors find a positive relation between book-to-market ratio and stock excess returns, and negative between size and stock excess returns. The results...

This paper examines the presence of herd behavior in Vietnam stock market using a sample of 299 companies listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange covering the time period 2005-2015. The study employs the herding measures proposed by Christie and Huang (1995) and Chang, Cheng and Khorona...

This paper investigates how reward-to-risk ratios compare among various government debt security (GDS) indices and sector indices in the Istanbul Stock Exchange. Risk is measured by either standard deviation or nonparametric and parametric value at risk. We find that the GDS indices have higher...

This paper investigates the relationship between level of foreign ownership in a firm and the liquidity of the firm stock in the Vietnam stock markets. We employ a rich and detailed data set representing foreign portfolio investment, liquidity and other firm attributes in the Vietnamese context....

This paper investigates the role of volatility risk on stock return predictability. Using 596 stock options traded at the American Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) for the period from January 2001 to December 2010 we examine the relation between different...

This study examines pricing implications of size, value, illiquidity and momentum effects in Malaysian stock returns. It employs time series and panel methods in testing APT-motivated pricing models over a sample period of 14 years up to 2013. Results indicate the significance of illiquidity...

We investigate the relative ability of two measures of the market implied cost of capital to predict aggregate equity market returns. One is Aggregate ICC, which is a weighted average of individual firms' ICC's. The other is ICC calculated using index information (Index ICC). Index ICC predicts...

I propose a turnover-adjusted momentum strategy and argue that it is more profitable and stable compared to the momentum strategy proposed by Jegadeesh and Titman (1993). Stocks are sorted by the moving standard deviation of the product of "share turnover ratio" and "returns without dividends"...

This study examines pricing implications of size, value, illiquidity and momentum effects in Malaysian stock returns. It employs time series and panel methods in testing APT-motivated pricing models over a sample period of 14 years up to 2013. Results indicate the significance of illiquidity...