We examine whether country fundamentals help explain the cross-section of currency excess returns. For this purpose, we consider fundamental variables such as default risk, foreign exchange rate regime, capital control as well as interest rate in the multi-factor model framework. Our empirical...

A well-known scandal involving a public enterprise in Korea suggests that supplier firms use entertainment expenses to maintain corrupt ties with officials of purchasing agencies. Such corrupt ties may allow supplier firms to bid low in procurement auctions in anticipation of corrupt officials...

We document a robust pattern of beta declining over the age of a firm. We find that changes in systematic risk via firm characteristics and life-cycle stages are insufficient to explain this pattern. Moreover, standard proxies for the quantity and quality of information also explain this pattern...

As highlighted by recent literature, long-term foreign exchange risk premia (FRP) of a currency pair tend to covary negatively with short-term real interest rates differentials (RIRD) of the pair. We fit an affine term structure model for 9 major currencies against the US dollar and estimate two...

With the advancement of medical sciences, knowledge transfer will become easier and cheaper. It may alter the way we traditionally think about relative wages. In this paper, we formalize this process with a labor model in which the cost of knowledge transfer and preferences over occupation are...

We examine whether country fundamentals help explain the cross-section of currency excess returns. For this purpose, we consider fundamental variables such as default risk, foreign exchange rate regime, capital control as well as interest rate in the multi-factor model framework. Our empirical...

We examined the return comovement of popular value-oriented investment strategies inside and outside equity. There are two distinct groups among the strategies that we examined. The returns of strategies within a group move together, while the returns of strategies belonging to different groups...

This paper analyzes the mean-variance efficiency of the reserve portfolios of central banks in an effort to shed light on the recent debate regarding the need for portfolio diversification. Using likelihood ratio test statistics, we examine the efficiency of the reserve portfolios of 18...