In the UK, SSAP 13 requires that firms immediately expense most of their Ramp;D expenditures. The reported earnings of high-Ramp;D expenditure firms are therefore likely to convey less value-relevant information to investors than those of less research-intensive firms. Using a sample of firms...

This paper provides a comprehensive set of contemporaneous estimates of the market risk for globally listed stocks on 59 world equity markets. The results reveal that the estimates of the systematic risk of a stock are distinct from market to market, and from the stock's corresponding estimate...

We test the Kraus-Litzenberger three-moment capital asset pricing model (CAPM) and the Fama-French (FF) three-factor (FF) model with the C-test proposed by Davidson and MacKinnon. We are unable to reject the null hypothesis that expected returns are described by either of the models in...

The present study empirically examines the contribution of the acquired banks in only the nonconglomerate types of mergers (i.e., banks with banks), where the bulk of the payment is in the form of equity to the acquiring bank and finds overwhelmingly statistically significant evidence that...

We examine whether the use of the three-moment capital asset pricing model can account for liquidity risk. We also make a comparative analysis of a four-factor model based on Fama-French and Pástor-Stambaugh factors versus a model based solely on stock characteristics. Our findings suggest that...

In performing an empirical analysis of stock market returns there are certain conditions under which the quadratic characteristic line (QCL) will be the appropriate return-generating process compared to the linear characteristic line (LCL). These conditions are whether the parameter associated...