In spite of the general unstable political and economical situation that existed in Palestine, the financial sector has witnessed a positive increase in the last ten years. It consisted of four groups: First: The banking system, which includes 22 Arab, foreign, and Palestinian banks with 135...

This study intends to examine the price-volume movements in the Arab stock markets, in order to determine the impact of changes in trade volume on the volatility of stock prices as expressed by the unified MAF stock price index. The research covers a sample of eight out of the fifteen Arab stock...

The Arab economy witnessed in the last three decades some developments as expressed by GDP per capita as well as by the human development index. However, such developments are not enough. It's varied, not comprehensive, and not as hoped. It's varied not only between individual states, but also...

This paper aims to examine one of the most important issues in the international corporate laws, which is the issue of share repurchases known as treasury shares. This paper investigated corporate laws, stock exchange regulations, research literatures and stock trading volume for repurchase...

This research aims to examine the issue of initiating cross-listed of stocks among Euro- Arab stock markets (Mediterranean region). Based on the investigations of the general features of both markets. There are no obstacles from the European stock markets side, Arab companies may be listed if...

Today, we find the world stock market is expanding significantly as expressed by the number of institutions, instruments, products and trading volume; thus tending to be more mature than ever, but risky, changeable, and volatile. In addition, it is working in a different environment and under new...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world financial markets and institutions have new features, and working in different environments and conditions. The new features have been materialized and emerged in the last two decades. These are of increasing the role of the financial...

This study examined corporate shares' laws related to stock market stability in twenty-five countries that covering developed and emerging economies, civil and common laws, and all geographic regions of the world, including South and Northern America, East, and West Europe, South Asia,...

This study is aimed to discuss forms of linkages that exist between the world stock markets, and to indicate to what extent the present interaction factors are increasing in the last decade. The study analyzed published data, as well as correlation between monthly changes of local price indices...

A new environment has evolved in the international stock markets, as expressed by the occurrence of market crises and high swings of stock prices. The stock prices are supposed to respond to real data under the market efficiency hypothesis. However, in some cases, prices fluctuation are...