We investigate the role of domestic and international economic uncertainty in the cross-sectional pricing of UK stocks. We consider a broad range of financial market variables in measuring financial conditions in order to obtain a better estimate of macroeconomic uncertainty compared to previous...

This study examines the asset pricing role of ‘sentiment risk' in stock returns in the case of the UK stock market. We define sentiment risk as the sensitivity of stock returns to investor sentiment in financial markets. We incorporate a broad range of financial market variables in measuring...

We investigate the pricing of systematic liquidity risk in UK equities using a large sample of daily data. Employing four alternative measures of liquidity we first find strong evidence of commonality in liquidity across stocks. We apply asymptotic principal component analysis (PCA) on the...