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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to directly examine the information hypothesis of S&P 500 index inclusion announcements by investigating the degree to which information beyond Standard & Poor's eight stated criteria enters the inclusion decision. Design/methodology/approach –...
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from a new perspective by examining the relation of the adoption of ESOP and the company cost of capital. Design …/methodology/approach – The capital asset pricing model is used to estimate the company's cost of equity capital, and the cost of debt is … estimated using bond yield spreads. The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is calculated as the weighted percentage of the …
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asymmetric loss functions, while back-testing and two utility-based loss functions are employed for further VaR assessment with …
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liquidity/information cost explanation, but the temporary return and large trading increases at the ED can best be attributed to … liquidity/information cost explanation, and by extending the previously analyzed index additions with an additional five …
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conditioning on up and down markets. Findings – Value (growth) stocks are more likely to be associated with high (low) accrual … quality. Value stocks earn higher returns mainly in down markets, while poor accrual quality firms have significantly higher … between accrual quality and the value premium, which only exhibits in the down markets (i.e. stocks with poor accrual quality …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the initial public offerings (IPOs) of the firms that are eventually included in one of the S&P 400, the S&P 500, or the S&P 600 Indices. Do these firms have very different IPO features than the rest of the IPOs? Design/methodology/approach...
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public offering firms. The non Rule 144A market and rule 144A market for preferred stocks are significantly different …
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applicable only to companies whose stocks are traded on a financial market. Empirical test of the exchange ratio formula (using …
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applicable only to companies whose stocks are traded on a financial market. Empirical test of the exchange ratio formula (using …
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Purpose - The paper aims to examine the Russian stock and bond markets for evidence of calendar anomalies in the first decade of the twenty-first century including a monthly seasonality, weekday seasonality, and a turn-of-the-month (TOM) seasonality. The study is motivated by interest in the...
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