For several years large number of studies has been conducted to gauge the impact of mergers and acquisitions activity on the corporate performance. The results of these studies have been found contradictory. When tested on the 13 sample firms from Indian Textile industry that have experienced...

We analyze stock market reactions to announcements of political appointments from the private sector and corporate appointments of former government officials. Using unique data on corporate affiliations and announcements of all Senate-confirmed U.S. Defense Department appointees of six...

According to the news model of asset price determination, only the unexpected component of an information should drive the stock price. We use the Danish publicly listed football club Brøndby IF to analyze how match outcome impacts the stock price. To disentangle gross news from net news,...

We investigate how financial market participants value energy accidents. We employ an event study to look into the response of stock markets to 209 accidents. These accidents were derived from Sovacool’s (2008) database on major energy accidents from 1907 to 2007. It appears that the stock...

The objective of this paper is to test the efficiency of two stock markets in Bangladesh. The objective is accomplished by applying the even study methodology. The empirical analysis reveals that both DSE and CSE are not efficient in weak form. Shareholders confusion, price exploitation,...