This paper uses a sample of 335 firms participating in non-equity and minority equity strategic alliances to reexamine value creation through strategic alliances. We show that the immediate positive response of stock markets to new strategic alliances is followed by negative abnormal returns....

In this paper we investigate short-term contrarian investment strategies in the Australian stock market using weekly data of those stocks comprising the All Ordinaries Index during the period 1994–2001. We find both the (Rev. Financ. Stud. 3 (1990) 175) equal-weighted strategy and a new...