Emerging European countries have made large strides in developing their local capital markets since the early-1990s. However, the rate of development has been widely disparate across countries and market segments, underpinned by the varying degrees of progress made in key areas such as...

This paper examines the relationship between aggregate stock market trading volume and serial correlation of daily stock returns from December 1991 to April 2006. The empirical results reveal that there is a first-order positive autocorrelation between future and present returns. The serial...

The rapid growth of the financial system presents a number of challenges to maintaining financial stability in Nepal. There has been a rapid growth of the banking sector over the last few years. State-owned institutions continue to dominate the banking system. Equity market capitalization has...