"In U.S. data, value stocks have higher expected excess returns and higher CAPM alphas than growth stocks. We find the external-habit model of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) can generate a value premium in both CAPM alpha and expected excess return so long as the persistence of the log...

This study considers the behaviour of the size, price earnings and book value anomalies in smaller firms. It does so by first separately, and then simultaneously, examining the effect of all three firm variables in the Australian stock market, where large firms are no bigger than the smaller...

This paper provides further evidence on short-term seasonals in returns on equity and fixed interest securities and futures on fixed interest securities in the Australian market. The significant result is that daily seasonals are found infixed interest securities and are qualitatively the same...

Many applications in financial economics use data series with different starting or ending dates. This paper describes estimation methods, based on the generalized method of moments (GMM), which make use of all available data for each moment condition. We introduce two asymptotically equivalent...

A large recent literature has focused on multiperiod portfolio choice with labor income, and while the models are elaborate along several dimensions, they all assume that the joint distribution of shocks to labor income and asset returns is i.i.d.. Calibrating this joint distribution to U.S....

The seminal work of Constantinides (1986) documents how, when the risky return is calibrated to the U.S. market return, the impact of transaction costs on per-annum liquidity premia is an order of magnitude smaller than the cost rate itself. A number of recent papers have formed portfolios...