The purpose of this paper is to make a quantitative and qualitative critical analyse regarding the three important aspects of stock market evolution. First, the forecasting problems are presented and analyse in order to establish the main problems and the potential solutions. Second, the...

According to several extended behavioral theories, value profits should mirror momentum profits, and vary over time. We test these theories in the cross section of returns. Value returns depend on market states. From 1926 to 2018, following negative market return, the average so-called value...

A series of popular stock investment strategies are based on buying stocks with low valuation multiples. These strategies assume that low multiples signal undervaluation. However, the low multiples can be justified by fundamentals. In such cases even stocks with very low multiples can be...

Investors have preferences for local companies, as well as companies in connected cities. We develop a novel approach to exploit the geographic connections of investor watched stocks to identify latent city-to-city connections that influence geographic investment preferences in China. We find...