Monthly equity returns in countries with strong governance lead monthly equity returns in countries with weak governance. This predictability is robust to alternative ways of measuring country governance, and holds in and out-of-sample at both the group and individual country levels. Strong...

The monthly value of insider trades increases over 200% in firms headquartered in counties with a climate disaster. Climate-induced insider trading holds in general but is stronger when investors are distracted and less prevalent when insiders face higher litigation risk. Firm fundamentals...

We find excess buying just below round numbers ($X.99) and excess selling just above round numbers ($X.01) using tick data of 152 million West Texas Intermediate crude oil futures transactions from January 1996 to October 2015. The round number effects were stronger in a regime of open outcry...

This study examines the behavior of financial contagion within the New Zealand stock market. The degree of financial contagion is measured by the coincidence of extreme stock returns. The extent of the effect and its economic significance are examined using the multinomial regression. The...