The issue of gold and silver price manipulation, in particular price suppression, is examined. We use a mixture of normal approach to decompose the returns into abnormal and control samples. Price suppression is a form of market manipulation of the runs type where longer negative runs with lower...

The compass rose pattern in financial data may indicate the presence of a nonlinear, possibly chaotic, data generating mechanism. Analysis reveals that over four equivalent subperiods, from 1996 to 2015, the compass rose pattern in gold returns fades. This feature provides an opportunity to...

This paper looks at the distributional aspects of financial ratios drawn from a number of firms quoted on the Irish Stock exchange. It is shown that many of the fundamental assumptions that underlie traditional financial statement analysis are not present - a result that is frequently found in...

The future of behavioral finance necessitates that the research areas of behavioral corporate finance and investor psychology develop richer models of financial decision-making behavior. Behavioral corporate finance requires expanding the focus from chief executive officer characteristics to...

This paper examines the relationships between the Russian and other Central European (CE) and developed countries' equity markets over the 1995-2004 period.Along with the traditional Johansen and Juselius (1990) multivariate cointegration tests, we apply novel cointegration approaches, including...

The real estate finance literature provides diverse and contradictory findings regarding the relationship between the real estate market and the stock market. Despite the importance of this relationship to the economy in general relatively little is known of what causes such differences. In this...

We examine the three interlinked Irish crises: the competitiveness, fiscal and banking crises, showing how all three combined to lay a lethal trap for Ireland. Starting from a point of economic balance, a series of poor government decisions led to the country once dubbed the Celtic tiger become...

This paper investigates the impact of county-level financial integration on corporate financing choices in emerging economies. Examining 4477 public firms from 24 countries, we find that corporate leverage is positively related to credit market integration, while negatively related to equity...

We examine the interrelationships between a large number of commodity series over a 20 year period through the use of minimum spanning trees. We find that there are several distinct clusters, that these are reasonably stable over time, and that the degree of interlinkage is time varying

We investigate the information shares of the two main centers of gold trading, over a 25 year period, using non-overlapping 4 month windows. We find that neither London nor New York are dominant in terms of price information share, that the dominant market switches from time to time and that...