Employing a sample of 5,858 U.S. public firms from 1993 to 2017, this study documents robust evidence that firms that hold more trademarks enjoy a lower cost of equity, even after we control for other determinants of the cost of equity and industry-by-year fixed effects. To address endogeneity...

We find value premium in the Chinese stock market using a conventional buy-and-hold approach which longs the portfolio with the highest BM ratio and shorts the one with the lowest BM ratio. Based on the finding, we test a new strategy by combining the value premium effect and technical analysis....

We propose a multidimensional liquidity measure constructed from 6 out of 17 individual low-frequency liquidity proxies. The multidimensional liquidity factor yields significant positive premiums and offers distinguished explanatory power on the cross-sectional return variations in China’s...