This paper develops a broad-based sentiment indicator for Germany and investigates whether investor sentiment can explain stock returns on the German stock market. Based on a principal component analysis, we construct a sentiment indicator that condenses information of several well-known...

Given the process {X(t), t in T}, the definition of self-affinity is reformulated in terms of diameter of the space of the rescaled pdf's of X(t). Two necessary conditions are deduced which contribute to discriminate uniscaling processes. Furthermore, by properly choosing the distance, the...

This paper investigates whether return dispersion (RD), proxied by the cross-sectional standard deviation of stock returns, captures variation in returns across German stocks between 1989 and 2010. I address existing evidence based on U.S. equity data that RD may serve as a proxy economic state...

The stock expected returns are positively related to operation performances and negatively related to investment and financing activities, we check the three indicators with significant predictive power in the cross-section of stock returns, across large, medium and small cap stock groups: Net...

This paper investigates whether investor sentiment can explain stock returns on the German stock market. Based on a principal component analysis, we construct a sentiment indicator that condenses information of several well-known sentiment proxies. We show that this indicator explains the return...

The existing econometric evidence on the relationship between stock indices and real economic activity is inconclusive despite theoretical arguments suggesting a long-term relationship. Previous studies indicate that the link between stock prices and growth became weaker in the 1980s. In this...