The present study focused on one of the important South Asian nations-Sri Lanka-to examine the role of idiosyncratic volatility in asset prices. A four-factor model with idiosyncratic volatility was designed for capturing the market, size, value and idiosyncratic risk yields better than Fama and...

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of human asset in firm performance and its implication for firm valuation. To do so a modified five-factor model with human asset designed for capturing the size, value, profitability and investment in average portfolio returns that performs...

Purpose To enhance portfolio decision-making using a capital asset pricing model-based clustering analysis. Design/methodology/approach Capital asset pricing model (CAPM); K-means clustering; agglomerative clustering. Findings Employing clustering along with CAPM to identify varying levels of...

The conventional, risk-based view on liquidity beta is often a dismal story for empirical data. We propose a competing, sentiment-based view on the reversed pricing pattern of liquidity beta in China: High liquidity beta stocks underperform low liquidity beta stocks by 1.17% per month. The...

We examine the dynamics of bank lending to the private sector for countries of the Euro area by applying a Markov switching error correction model. We identify for Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal stable, mean reverting regimes and unstable regimes with no tendency to return to the long...

We examine the dynamics of bank lending to the private sector for countries of the Euro area by applying a Markov switching error correction model.We identify for Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Portugal stable, mean reverting regimes and unstable regimes with no tendency to return to the long...