We examine the determinants of market value and underpricing for 1221 IPOs using a stochastic frontier model applied to the previously unexamined 1999-2010 period. We find that the book value of assets, the percentage of shares retained by the original owners of the firm, the commission rate and...

Commodity futures and equity markets differ in several important respects. Nevertheless, it was found that momentum profits in commodities are highly significant for holding periods as long as 9 months, and returns to momentum strategies are roughly equal in magnitude to those that have been...

This paper examines the performance of trend-following trading strategies in commodity futures markets using a monthly dataset spanning 48 years and 28 markets. We find that all parameterizations of the dual moving average crossover and channel strategies that we implement yield positive mean...