This paper stresses the importance of assessing the risk-return trade-off faced by environmental industries in financial markets. One of the most widely-used theoretical models in finance is the conditional CAPM, which describes the conditional risk-return tradeoff in financial markets, whereby both the conditional mean return and conditional beta risk are allowed to vary over time. This paper ...

The present study aimed at investigating the existence of long memory properties in ten emerging stock markets across the globe. When return series exhibit long memory, it indicates that observed returns are not independent over time. If returns are not independent, past returns can help predict future returns, thereby violating the market efficiency hypothesis. It poses a serious challenge to ...

Information asymmetry in stock market can increase the risk of investment which in turn increases the capital cost of firms. Bhattacharya (1979) proposed a hypothesis that states dividend can act as a powerful signal in order to solve information asymmetry problem. We measured information asymmetry by lack of earnings transparency. Therefore we examine the effect of earnings transparency on cap...

This paper aims to study the effect of herding on buy and hold, momentum and contrarian strategy. In this research, the cross-sectional absolute deviation is used to identify herding behavior in twenty industries in Tehran stock market. It is observed that the down and boom periods had more industries with herding. Moreover, the weak herding is more common than the strong herding in this market...

this paper investigates the nature of volatility characteristics of stock returns in the bangladesh stock markets employing daily all share price index return data of dhaka stock exchange (dse) and chittagong stock exchange (cse) from 02 january 1993 to 27 january 2013 and 01 january 2004 to 20 august 2015 respectively.  furthermore, the study explores the adequate volatility model for the stoc...

In the empirical finance literature findings on the risk-return tradeoff in excess stock market returns are ambiguous. In this study, we develop a new QR-GARCH-M model combining a probit model for a binary business cycle indicator and a regime switching GARCH-in-mean model for excess stock market return with the business cycle indicator defining the regime. Estimation results show that there is...