We investigate the impact of China's economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the time series variation of Chinese stock market expected returns. Using the news based measure in Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2016), we find that EPU predicts negatively future stock market return at various horizons. This...

We reaffirm the stylized fact that bond risk premia are time-varying with macroeconomic condition, even with real-time macro data instead of commonly used final revised data. While real-time data are noisier and render standard forecasts insignificant, we find that, with four efficient...

We study which characteristics provide incremental predictive information for the cross-section of expected returns in the Chinese stock market. Our results provide empirical evidence for strong nonlinear relations between expected returns and selected characteristics, especially in the Trading...

We study which characteristics provide incremental predictive information for the cross-section of expected returns in the Chinese stock market. Our results provide empirical evidence for strong nonlinear relations between expected returns and selected characteristics, especially in the trading...

This paper shows that investors do not fully incorporate cost behavior information into valuation. Firms with higher growth in operating costs generate substantially lower future stock returns and operating performance. An equal-weighted long-short spread portfolio earns an average return of 82...

This study investigates the cross-country impact of U.S. equity market skewness risk. We find that a large decrease in the U.S. market skewness significantly predicts high future returns on international equity markets. The predictability remains significant after controlling for a set of U.S....

While numerous studies have analyzed the asset allocation issue of US stock market from various angles, much less attention has been paid to the asset allocation issue of Chinese stock market. This article investigates the asset allocation in Chinese stock market from a perspective of...