Based theoretically on the resource-based view of the firm (RBV), this study surveys human resource professionals employed in small, medium, and large firms regarding the impact of training on various measures of the firm’s competitiveness. Based on the analysis of data obtained from the...

This paper examines the effects of business and consumer confidence on stock market returns. Based on the analysis of monthly data from thirty-one countries, the results show that business and consumer confidence has a positive effect on stock market returns. The findings reveal that change in...

This paper provides empirical evidence of how financial stress mediates the effect of the demand side's confidence on the supply side's confidence in the United States. Using monthly data from 1994:M2 to 2012:M5, the time-series regression analyses show that changes in the demand side's...

This paper analyses how stock returns on the U.S. manufacturing industry respond to raw materials price shock. Using monthly excess return data of the U.S. manufacturing industry and the percentage change of the U.S. raw materials price commodity index from 1960:M2 to 2012:M12, the vector auto...

Based on the theoretical framework of financial amplification, this study is set up to investigate the dynamic effects of financial stress on the performance of the U.S. real estate market proxied by Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) returns in the United States using vector autoregressive...

This paper empirically investigates how business and consumer confidence responds to monetary policy shock. Based on the vector autoregressive (VAR) analysis of the monthly changes in business and consumer confidence and the monthly Federal fund interest rates, the results show that both the...

This study examines the relative importance of percentage change in price-to-earnings ratio (PE), percentage change in dividend yield (DY) and change in aggregate Tobin's q ratio (∆TBQ) in forecasting returns on the S&P 500 (SP). The results from the variance decomposition analysis of...

This paper analyses risk premiums and risk-adjusted excess returns of a portfolio of firms with low employee turnover from 2006 to 2011. The results show that average risk premiums of an equal-weighted portfolio of firms with low employee turnover are economically superior than the CRSP...