This paper investigates the predictive ability of international volatility risk for the daily aggregate Chinese stock market returns. We employ the innovations in implied volatility indices of seven major international markets as our international volatility risk proxies. We find that...

This paper examines the predictability and economic grounds of high-dimensional fundamental characteristics on stock price crash risk. By building a comprehensive set of characteristics in the Chinese stock market and using various machine learning algorithms, we highlight the outperformance of...

Uncertainty is known to be crucial in asset pricing, yet evidence from comprehensive analysis of various uncertainty measures remains sparse. This paper investigates the predictability of stock returns based on economic fundamentals uncertainty by constructing a novel uncertainty index derived...

This study examines the effect of mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting on the Climate Risk Index (CRI) of European countries, a measure of global warming (SDG-13), where CSR reporting is mandated for a subset of large firms from 2012 to 2022. The objective is to assess the...