This paper examines the impact of increased pre-close transparency on the effectiveness of stock closing call. On January 1, 2003, the Taiwan Stock Exchange increases pre-close transparency by disclosing the best five bid and ask prices and related unexecuted orders before market closing. At the...

This research paper attempts to evaluate the benefits of using the Fama and French Model by comparing them with those resulting from the use of the Capital Asset Pricing Model. Local, International, and European Monetary Union functional forms were considered, in an attempt to raise the...

This study reports how country risk and macroeconomic conditions influence the wealth gains of U.S. financial firms involved in international mergers and takeovers. The findings suggest that U.S. financials experience weakly significant wealth gains around announcement date. The wealth gains are...

This paper examines the influence of oil prices on Canadian stock market using the cause-effect relationship between oil prices and the TSX index. Additionally, the relationship between the Canadian to US Dollar exchange rate and the TSX index was investigated. Results show that in the last...

This paper investigates the relationship between macroeconomic variables and Bahraini stock market development by using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag model. The development of a financial market is closely related to the overall development in the national economy. Well functioning...

In this study, we show that accrual abnormal returns are positively correlated to idiosyncratic risk in international equity markets. In addition, we find that idiosyncratic risk has less impact on accrual abnormal returns for developed countries than emerging countries. Our results are robust...

This paper examines the price discovery and volatility spill-over relationship for Indian commodity markets. We cover twelve actively traded commodities including agriculture, metal and energy and four commodity indices. Price discovery is confirmed for eight commodities and three indices with a...

In this paper we study risk management based on the quantile regression. Unlike the traditional VaR estimation methods, the quantile regression approach allows for a general treatment on the error distribution and is robust to distributions with heavy tails. We estimate the VaRs of five...

Foreign investors have played an increasingly important role in the stock markets of emerging host countries. Although foreign investors bring large amounts of capital, due to asymmetric information and home bias, they tend to invest only in certain stocks, rather than in the market as a whole....

This study investigates whether there is an increased integration of U.S. domestic money market interest rates and the Eurodollar market interest rates following two important changes that the U.S Federal Reserve (the Fed) implemented. First, elimination of reserve requirements on Eurodollar...