We find that Chinese public firms surrounded by a higher number of Buddhist and Taoist temples are associated with relatively lower expected default risk (EDF). In contrast to the widely documented impact of Western religiosity on corporate behaviors, our mechanism tests indicate that lower EDF...

China's segmented stock market provides an opportunity to study conditional international asset pricing from multiple viewpoints--domestic and foreign. We use the multivariate GARCH-M framework of De Santis and Gérard [De Santis, G., and Gérard, B., 1998. How big is the premium for currency...

We compare several representative sophisticated model averaging and variable selection techniques of forecasting stock returns. When estimated traditionally, our results confirm that the simple combination of individual predictors is superior. However, sophisticated models improve dramatically...