“…The area of international asset pricing has seen various developments in recent years, including studies related to investing and investment behaviour (Chauhan, Ahmad, Aggarwal, & Chandra, 2020; Dharani, Hassan, & Paltrinieri, 2019; Javed, Husain, & Ali, 2020; Keshari & Gautam, 2022; Pandey & Sehgal, 2019), showing the role of faith and investor sentiment in asset pricing (Anand, Basu, Pathak, & Thampy, 2021; Kazmaier & van Vuuren, 2020; Zhang, Gong, Wang, & Ye, 2021). On the other hand, studies have focused on the use of machine learning, deep learning and encoders in asset pricing, which gives better insights and accurate results regarding the dimensions of asset pricing (Gu, Kelly, & Xiu, 2020, 2021; Lettau & Pelger, 2020).…”