This study empirically examines how exchange rate shocks affect firms’ competitiveness in the small, export-oriented country of Finland. Specifically, using Sweden as a benchmark and controlling for cross-country sector and industry effects, the forex competition hypothesis is tested using the...

This article shows that differentiating between good and bad inflation news is important to understanding how inflation affects stock market returns. Summing positive and negative inflation shocks as in previous studies tends to wash out or mute the effects of inflation news on stock returns....

The paper applies a Factor-GARCH model to evaluate the impact of the market portfolio, as a single common dynamic risk factor, on conditional volatility and risk premia for the returns on size-based equity portfolios of three major European markets; France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The...

The market coskewness puzzle has occupied the empirical asset pricing research since the third-moment asset pricing model was introduced by Kraus and Litzenberger (1976) and Friend and Westerfield (1980). Using the Fama-French 49 US industry portfolios this paper empirically shows that the...

Purpose - The purpose of the paper is to study the relationship between stock return correlation and volatility. Design/methodology/approach -Utilizing a logit-type regression model, the paper analyzes the incremental effect of volatility on the level of correlation. The focus of the paper is...

This paper revisits the day-of-the-week anomaly discussion from a portfolio aggregation point of view. Using different levels of portfolio aggregation: market, industry and company levels, it is possible to partly trace the aggregation level of the effect of the factors driving the...