We examine empirical evidence of the behavior of stocks and bonds from BRIC nations using daily data from January 2003 to July 2010. We present unconditional and conditional empirical results depending upon a simple measure of U.S. financial stress. In the long term, BRIC bonds markets deviate...

We find a robust negative effect of exchange rate volatility on S&P500 company returns. The Consumer Discretionary and the Consumer Staple sectors have more significant negative exposure to exchange rate volatility than the other sectors thus supporting the hypothesis that exchange rate...

We examine next-day newspaper accounts of large daily jumps in 16 national stock markets to assess their proximate cause, clarity as to cause, and the geographic source of the market-moving news. Our sample of 6,200 market jumps yields several findings. First, policy news – mainly associated...

This paper proposes a way to measure the effect of rising passive ownership on stock price informativeness that does not rely on any particular model. I examine patterns in trading volume, returns and volatility around days we know information is released: earnings announcements. Between 1990...

This paper studies how the introduction of ETFs, and the growth of ETF ownership, can change investors' learning behavior. I develop a rational-expectations model where agents decide (1) whether they want to become informed or not and (2) if informed, how to allocate their limited attention...