As the world's largest trading bloc, the RCEP, is believed to play a non-neglectable role in the post-pandemic recovery. By looking into the shocks in early 2020 that affect the stock markets of RCEP participating regions, we measure the stock market reaction to common risks before the RCEP...

While existing studies have not detected a significant standard momentum in the A-share market, recent literature has documented several modified momentum factors. Echoing the findings of Ehsani and Linnainmaa (2022), our study identifies strong factor momentum in the A-share market. Factor...

This study investigates the U.S. stock market efficiency from the symmetric and asymmetric perspectives during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explore that the pandemic boosts (hurts) the information role of symmetrically (asymmetrically) informed trading. Specifically, we find that the epidemic...

We study the interaction of noisy demand and skewed asset payoffs. In our model, price as a function of quantities is convex in a neighborhood around zero if and only if skewness is positive. The combination of convexity and noise produces the idiosyncratic skewness effect--a documented negative...