Purpose: This paper focuses on execution costs as liquidity measure. Execution costs are related to volatility and are an important component of a firm’s cost of capital. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether emerging market firms have lower execution costs when they face less...

The author examine the effect of corporate domicile of Hong Kong companies to other countries that were motivated by a desire to reduce political risk. They argue that political risk is too subjective a concept to be exposed to systematic quantitative analysis. The authors provide empirical...