We study stock market reactions to the release of movies re-exposing past publicly known corporate scandals. Using a sample of 54 event firms featured in 23 movies, we find event firms have significantly negative and persistent abnormal returns to movie releases. We posit that such negative...

This paper explores stock return predictability by exploiting the cross-section of oil futures prices. Motivated by the principal component analysis, we find the curvature factor of the oil futures curve predicts monthly stock returns: a 1% per month increase in the curvature factor predicts...

Theory suggests a relationship between both volatility of volatility, variance risk premium, and the equity risk premium. We empirically investigate the relationship between volatility of volatility and the equity risk premium, and the relationship between the variance risk premium and the...

It is well established that firms that undertake high levels of capital investment relative to their scale of operations, as measured by total assets, sales, or similar criteria, tend to have lower subsequent stock returns than firms with the opposite characteristic. Intuitively, this finding is...