This paper presents empirical evidence supporting the view that US monetary conditions matter for firms in the global capital market. We show the effects of three risk measures, domestic bank interest rates spreads, US bank interest rates spread, and US market price of interest rate risk on the...

We analyze panel data for the worldwide commodities sector using a sample of 6,323 firms from 69 countries with annual observations from 1999 to 2010. The effect of return on equity on market-to-book is time-varying and declining across the years in the sample. First, there is positive and...

We provide an extensive set of alternative models for the estimation of the real cost of equity in a sample of utilities firms in Brazil with monthly data from March 2006 to June 2011. The traditional CAPM is rejected and, together with the Fama-French factors, give a poor fit. Additional...