Adopting a MS-VAR model (Krolzig, 1997) and a recently developed regime-dependent impulse response analysis technique (Ehrmann, et al., 2003), this paper investigates the dynamic relationships among the stock markets of the US, Australia and New Zealand. Our results reveal the existence of two...

In his seminal paper, Brooks argues that the relation between return volatility and trading volume can be both linear and nonlinear. Adopting both linear and nonlinear Granger causality tests, he shows that there exists both linear and nonlinear bi-directional causality between trading volumes...

We find value premium in the Chinese stock market using a conventional buy-and-hold approach which longs the portfolio with the highest BM ratio and shorts the one with the lowest BM ratio. Based on the finding, we test a new strategy by combining the value premium effect and technical analysis....

This study investigates the role of higher co-moments on stock returns in two important stock markets: China and the UK. Implementing a utility function that accommodates higher moment preferences into the equilibrium asset pricing analysis, it can be deduced that the expected stock returns,...

We examine the impact of blockholding on shareholders' wealth in equity offerings in China. We find that investors generally react negatively to equity-offering announcements by firms with high blockholding. A one-standard-deviation (12%) increase in blockholding leads to a 0.59% reduction in...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the four-factor model's risk premiums in the Hong Kong stock market. We find that, except for the book-to-market factor, the magnitudes of market, size, and momentum premiums are close to each other. The pattern of the book-to-market premium is...

We propose a multidimensional liquidity measure constructed from 6 out of 17 individual low-frequency liquidity proxies. The multidimensional liquidity factor yields significant positive premiums and offers distinguished explanatory power on the cross-sectional return variations in China’s...

This study investigates the performance of four-factor asset pricing model using Hong Kong stock returns. Our four-factor model is constructed by adding a momentum facgtor into the Fama and French's (1993) three-factor model. We find that the four-factor model does well in explaining return...

We find value premium in the Chinese stock market using a conventional buy-and-hold approach which longs the portfolio with the highest BM ratio and shorts the one with the lowest BM ratio. Based on the finding, we test a new strategy by combining the value premium effect and technical analysis....