The financial market interest several researchers, especially in the domain of assessment of the financial assets and their performances. The previous research identified several anomalies of the market, as size, Monday, January, PER effects, etc. putting in question the notion of market...

We study the impact of celebrity endorsements, hiring celebrities as firm ambassadors, on stock mispricing. We find that celebrity endorsements can result in more severe stock mispricing for focal firms. Such an effect is stronger when endorsers are more popular. In addition, the occurrence of...

Based on the data of 786 companies listed on A-share market during 2001 to 2009, this paper studies firm-specific return volatility. It's found that the absolute level of firm-specific volatility is rising, while the weight of firm-specific volatility is decreasing, which implies declining...

While theoretical models strongly suggest that short-sales are mainly driven by private information, recent empirical evidence of has been rather mixed. This paper contributes to the discussion by looking at various potential motives to sell short and compares these with regular buys and sales...

Material news events can be potentially important sources of jumps in stock returns. We collect 21 million news articles associated with more than 9,000 publicly-traded companies and use textual analyses to derive measures to summarize the news. We find that stock return jumps (including...

The purpose of this paper is to study the closed-end fund discount in Miller's (1977) framework. Miller's theory states that in the simultaneous presence of (1) short sale restrictions and (2) dispersion of investors' opinions, securities become overvalued. We show that discounts of...

This paper explores the presence of the turn – of – the – month effect on Bucharest Stock Exchange. We employ daily values from 2002 to 2011 of the two important indices of the Romanian capital market: BET – C and RAQ – C, composed on the stock prices of some of the biggest Romanian...

The availability of intraday data led to the development of new concepts and models. In the paper we focus on the jumps observed in the stock and index returns. These abnormal returns should be linked to information on the market. Here we detect jumps in equally spaced 15-minute intraday returns...

This paper documents the existence of a slowly evolving trend in the dividend-price ratio, dp, determined by a demographic variable, MY: the middle-aged to young ratio. Deviations of the dividend-price ratio from this slowly evolving long-run component explain transitory but persistent...

The average alpha of mutual funds is an indication of whether it pays off to invest in actively managed funds. In this study we show that a substantial part of the variation in the average alpha can be explained by exogenous factors. The most important factors are the average expense ratio, the...