This article explains how the Energy Policy Act of 1992 had impacted electric utilities in the United States. Three time periods were used reflecting data pre- and post-deregulation to better assess the effects that could have arisen from the Act. The cross-sectional data consists of 34 electric...

Determinants of ADR's idiosyncratic risk are examined from the perspective of undiversified investors. Since ADRs enjoy a unique status, vis-agrave;-vis US companies, we study whether determinants of their risk, derived from a two-stage regression model, are different from the one for U.S. firms....

Integration linkages between the five financial equity market indices located in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are empirically analysed. Using methodologies that account for idiosyncratic factors in the data, evidence of linkages between the GCC countries are found. The findings...