This research note examines the impact of federal deficits on U.S. capital inflows. Expanding on the previous work of Bahamani-Oskooee and Payesteh (1994), we employ the relatively new maximum likelihood procedure developed by Johansen (1988) and Johansen and Juselius (1990) to do cointegration...

We find strong evidence linking the momentum pattern in equity returns with a prominent measure of macroeconomic conditions, specifically the funding environment. We show that the size and consistency of the momentum premium varies systematically across funding states. Furthermore, we find...

Recent decades have seen the emergence of global value chains (GVCs), in which production stages for individual goods are broken apart and scattered across countries. Stimulated by these developments, there has been rapid progress in data and methods for measuring GVC linkages. The macro...

The equity market risk premium remains one of the most debated issues in corporate finance. Monthly returns for 19 developed equity markets and 16 emerging equity markets between 1970 and 2006 aided in examining the extent of integration of these markets with the U.S. stock market and the Morgan...