We investigate the level of underpricing and the long-term stock market performance of financial exchange initial public offerings (IPOs) and find that, despite being more underpriced, the financial exchange IPOs significantly outperform the market indexes and a control sample of regular IPOs....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the day of the week effect on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) by using the GSE all-share index from November 1990 to August 2012. The presence of the day of the week effect has been reported on several markets. Design/methodology/approach...

We examine the effects of government liquidity infusion on the risk-taking behavior of Canadian banks and find that banks that received government financial assistance subsequently experienced a decrease in risk. The reduction in risk is induced by a shift from non-interest income-related...