Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants of profitability for a sample of Greek non-financial firms listed in the Athens Stock Exchange for the period 1995-2003. This is a very important period for the Greek economy on the way to European monetary union (EMU)....

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the intervalling effect bias in ETFs' systematic risk expressed by beta. The authors' findings reveal the existence of a significant intervalling effect on ETFs' beta obtained by the ordinary least squares method (OLS). Also investigated is the impact...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the market efficiency, asymmetric effect and time varying risk–return relationship for daily stock return of Amman Stock Exchange (ASE). Design/methodology/approach -The Box–Jenkins selection model is used to determine the...

Purpose -This study seeks to examine the key factors that affect the timeliness of corporate internet reporting (CIR) by the Egyptian listed corporations on the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange. Design/methodology/approach - The authors use firm characteristics and corporate governance...

Purpose - The paper's objectives are: to address the issue of cointegration (efficient market hypothesis) between Greek spot and futures markets over the period of the crisis, 1999-2001; to investigate the short-run and long-run efficiency of the FTSE/ASE-20 stock index futures contract and FTSE/ASE...

Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to extend the literature on the effects of stock splits from mutual funds splits and the QQQ split to 20 exchange traded funds (ETFs) that span a wide variety of indexes. The split sample is compared to a non-split control sample with similar characteristics...

Purpose - Prior evidence suggests the existence of asymmetric timeliness in the reporting of good and bad news of firms that trade in the Athens Stock Exchange. The purpose of this paper is to explore whether these results are consistent with inferences related to persistence property of...

Purpose – To investigate whether a stock split is still considered a policy that creates value for the underlying company and the rationale behind such action for companies listed on the NASDAQ. Design/methodology/approach - The event study methodology of Strong is employed to examine the...

Purpose - This paper seeks to test the hypothesis that stock returns in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) adjust asymmetrically to past information due to differential adjustment costs. Design/methodology/approach -The methodological approach is based on the asymmetric price adjustment model...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between capital expenditures and corporate earnings for 357 manufacturing firms listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange over the sample period 1992-2002. Design/methodology/approach -The sample period of 11 years is divided into...