This research examines the long-run Initial Public Offerings (IPO) stock performance of a large Chinese sample, and in particular the relationship between initial reserves (capital reserves and revenue reserves immediately after the IPO) and long-run IPO stock performance. In general, Chinese...

Pricing of an Initial public offering (IPO) is a complex phenomenon. Price anomalies are commonly observed in IPO markets, especially in emerging markets. Investors perceived underpricing creates undue market momentum during the offer period with an asymmetric effect across different issue...

We examine the effects of the North Korea-U.S. summit and related events on the South Korean stock market over the period March 2018 to June 2018. Employing the event study methodology, we estimate sectoral abnormal returns following the events surrounding the summit and conduct several...

This study analyzes the sensitivity of a series of Indian stock indices for the astonishing component of monetary and macroeconomic policy with the data set from 1st April 2004 to 31st July 2016. The immediate impact is assessed with Event Analysis, and the dynamic effect is analyzed with VAR...

We assess the effect of the recent royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on various sectors of the UK stock market over the period between November 2017 and May 2018. For this purpose, the event study methodology is used to estimate abnormal returns and conduct several robustness tests...

This study explores the importance of central bank independence on stock market outcomes. Specifically, we examine the effects of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's decree, which removes the top officials of the Central Bank of Turkey, on Borsa Istanbul returns. We use a well-established event...

In prior literature it was conjectured that the Indian stock market responses on domestic macroeconomic surprises are expected to be significantly influenced by global surprises. In this paper we empirically established that hypothesis. We used both the Event Analysis and VAR model. We found...

This study assesses the level of potential insider trading on the Saudi stock market (Tadawul) before and after the introduction of financial reforms. The level of potential insider trading is estimated by employing the market cleanliness measure (MCM) which determines the proportion of...