Purpose – Prior studies provide mixed propositions on whether earnings levels or earnings changes provide the better explanatory power for variations of stock returns and whether the time-series behavior of earnings affects the value relevance of both earnings variables. This paper aims to...

We examine the dynamic relations among market returns, market (MV), and idiosyncratic (IV) around business cycles. Compared to the conventional view, which treats MV and IV separately, we first find that excess return on the market anticipates negative MV and IV, suggesting market return's role...

We investigate whether market makers with inventory concerns are compensated with subsequent monthly returns in the cross-section. We find a significant negative relation between order flows and monthly returns, “the order flow effect,” suggesting that market makers lower prices for stocks...

Motivated by theoretical analysis and unique Korean equity fund market data, this paper provides new evidence of herding between individual investors and institutional investors in the equity fund market along with related issues of risk aversion, cumulative performance, and the business cycle...

Purpose – Prior studies provide mixed propositions on whether earnings levels or earnings changes provide the better explanatory power for variations of stock returns and whether the time-series behavior of earnings affects the value relevance of both earnings variables. This paper aims to...

Commonly used asset pricing models do not successfully account for both time-series and cross-sectional variations of asset returns. In this article, we propose a new method for forming pricing factors that are intended to capture the time-series as well as the cross-sectional variations. The...

We examine the role of bilateral political relations in sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investment decisions. Our empirical results suggest that political relations play a role in SWF decision making. Contrary to predictions based on the FDI and political relations literature, we find that relative...