Business Cycle Variations in Manager and Investor Sentiment Indices

HA Al-Zoubi - Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
I find that the highly regarded investor and manager sentiment indices demonstrate both
cyclical and persistent variations. The presence of cyclicality in the orthogonalized indices …

Business cycles, financial cycles and capital structure

HA Al-Zoubi, JA O'Sullivan, AM Alwathnani - Annals of Finance, 2018 - Springer
We perform peridogram based cycle analysis of firm capital structure and find evidence that
firms' leverage is both persistent and cyclical. The cyclicality of leverage is supported by the …

On the role of domestic and international financial cyclical factors in driving economic growth

M Billio, M Donadelli, G Livieri, A Paradiso - Applied Economics, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We investigate the effects of (domestic and international) financial cyclical factors on the US
business cycle over the period 1890–2013 using an augmented stochastic version of the …

Bond and option prices with permanent shocks

HA Al-Zoubi - Journal of Empirical Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
I develop and estimate an affine short-rate model that incorporates a nonstationary
stochastic mean. In my model, the time-varying stochastic mean is subject to a sequence of …