Acquisitions by larger firms seem to generate less wealth for acquirer stockholders than acquisitions by smaller firms. In this paper, we re-examine the ‘size effect', but separately for serial and non-serial acquisition. We find sample-selection bias results in a spurious size effect for...

Quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) was frequently detected in wastewater treatment plants and leads to potential toxicity to the related biological processes. In this study, the effect of benzalkonium bromide (BK) on anaerobic sludge fermentation process for short chain fatty acid (SCFAs)...

Potassium ferrate (PF) pretreatment in anaerobic sludge and its potential influence mechanisms have received widely attention. This study investigated the coupling effect of PF loading on steel slag (SS) on excess sludge anaerobic fermentation. Results showed that SS loading increase the...

The literature on foreign portfolio ownership in developed markets suggests that investors minimize their informational disadvantage when making foreign investments. We examine Taiwan, an emerging financial market where news of foreign institutional portfolio ownership is closely and widely...

The Federal Reserve Bank has the ability to change the money supply and to shape the expectations of market participants through their open market operations. These operations may amount to 20% of the day's volume and are concentrated during the half hour known as quot;Fed Time.quot; Using...

Analysis of FTSE 100 stock transactions data reported by the London Stock Exchange shows that trade frequency and average trade size impact price volatility for small trades (i.e. trades of one NMS or less). For large trades, only trade frequency affects price volatility. In further splitting...

This study examines the impact of changing dealer competition and order flow across the 24 hour day on bid-ask spreads in the foreign exchange (FX) market. Using one year of tick-by-tick data in the spot Deutschmark-Dollar FX market, trading information is aggregated into 15 minute intervals...

The study is divided into four broad parts, beginning with an exploratory analysis of the data on expost returns on corporate equities and bonds for the 1926-80 period. In Part 2, we estimate the relationships between one-month expost returns on corporate bonds and equities andvariations in...

The Federal Reserve Bank has the ability to change the money supply and to shape the expectations of market participants through their open market operations. These operations may amount to 20% of the day's volume and are concentrated during the half hour known as `Fed Time'. Using previously...

This study analyzes the information transmission mechanism linking oil futures with stock prices, where we examine the lead and lag cross-correlations of returns in one market with the others. We investigate the dynamic interactions between oil futures prices traded on the New York Mercantile...