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Portfolio Volatility Estimation Relative to Stock Market Cross-Sectional Intrinsic Entropy

Selecting stock portfolios and assessing their relative volatility risk compared to the market as a whole, market indices, or other portfolios is of great importance to professional fund managers and individual investors alike. Our research uses the cross-sectional intrinsic entropy (CSIE) model to

Holy Grail Math 6.5 Rigor 6 ·  March 16, 2023

Eco-Innovation and Earnings Management: Unveiling the Moderating Effects of Financial Constraints and Opacity in FTSE All-Share Firms

Our research investigates the relationship between eco-innovation and earnings management among 567 firms listed on the FTSE All-Share Index from 2014 to 2022. By examining how sustainability-driven innovation influences financial reporting practices, we explore the strategic motivations behind inco

Street Traders Math 2.5 Rigor 8.5 ·  August 19, 2025

Environmental Performance, Financial Constraint and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies

Through its initiative known as the Climate Change Act (2008), the Government of the United Kingdom encourages corporations to enhance their environmental performance with the significant aim of reducing targeted greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050. Previous research has predominantly assessed

Street Traders Math 2.5 Rigor 8 ·  September 10, 2025

Equity Premium Prediction: Taking into Account the Role of Long, even Asymmetric, Swings in Stock Market Behavior

Through a novel approach, this paper shows that substantial change in stock market behavior has a statistically and economically significant impact on equity risk premium predictability both on in-sample and out-of-sample cases. In line with Auer’s ‘‘Bullish ratio’’, a ‘‘Bullish index’’ is introduce

Holy Grail Math 6 Rigor 5.5 ·  August 29, 2025

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility

Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government’s concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on

Street Traders Math 3 Rigor 7 ·  September 11, 2025

A study about who is interested in stock splitting and why: considering companies, shareholders or managers

There are many misconceptions around stock prices, stock splits, shareholders, investors, and managers behaviour about such informations due to a number of confounding factors. This paper tests hypotheses with a selected database, about the question ‘‘is stock split attractive for companies?’’ in an

Philosophers Math 2 Rigor 2.5 ·  August 23, 2025

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