This study explores risk-reward patterns in the US stock market and establishes optimal factor-based investing using the Fama-French five-factor model through market cycles constructed by Shiller’s interest rates and Baker-Wurgler’s sentiments. Our emerging evidence confirms that the...

Purpose In order to follow the international trend of increasing transparency in financial statements, Taiwan began to implement regulations on expensing employee bonuses in 2008, a process that involves the use of specific dates as the basis for issuing the bonuses but which may also have the...