We examine whether components of the earnings-to-price (EP) ratio can be used to extract incremental information to better estimate future returns in the cross-section of country-industry indexes. We demonstrate that the EP components such as lagged EP, changes in earnings, short-term momentum,...

We investigate the potential cross-sectional relationship between several equity index attributes and future returns on country-industry indexes in the regions of North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America, MENA, and Japan. Index attributes include the recently documented predictors in...

In this study, the effect of leverage on investment is analyzed by employing panel data methods for the Turkish non-financial firms that are quoted on İstanbul Stock Exchange. For one-way error component models, it is shown that there is a negative impact of leverage on investment for only...

Turkish Abstract: Bu çalışmada, onar adet A veB Tipi yatırım fonugruplarının ve Emeklilik (toplam) fonu grubunun günlük ve aylık frekansta performansları ölçülmüştür. Fonların performansını ölçmeye yönelik diğer birçok çalışmadan farklı olarak, bu çalışma fon...

We investigate the existence and significance of a cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic volatility and expected returns at the global level by introducing a global idiosyncratic volatility measure and globally diversified test assets. We find that the portfolios with the highest and...

We investigate the potential relation between financial openness and financial development for 27 emerging countries for the period between 1996 and 2016. We focus on three dimensions of financial openness: capital account openness, trade openness, and stock-market openness. In this study, we...

A financial system plays a key role in fostering economic growth by efficiently channeling the funds to investments. However, a financial system is also considered as the source of instability especially during crisis periods. How to redesign financial system globally and nationally in order to...

We test the existence of a time-series relationship between the aggregate idiosyncratic volatility and the market index return at the global level by introducing various global measures of aggregate idiosyncratic volatility. We offer four definitions of aggregate global idiosyncratic volatility...