This paper uncovers the relationship between stock markets and exchange ratesin seven countries by employing stable aggregate currency (SAC) for the period of 1973-2004. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression, time series methods, and directedacyclic graphs are applied to the daily data on...

Purpose – There are several studies that investigate evidence for mean reversion in stock prices. However, there is no consensus as to whether stock prices are mean reverting or random walk (unit root) processes. The goal of this paper is to re-examine mean reversion in stock prices....

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the voluntary use of internal audit by Australian publicly listed companies and to identify factors that lead listed companies to have an internal audit function.Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on the Institute of Internal Auditors'...

As an integral part of risk management process, effective risk transfer should be based on a collective understanding of risks in terms of their impacts, responsible project stakeholders as well as likely stages of occurrence in a project life cycle. Until now, most research has focused on...

Both the increasing private participation in public projects and the critical importance of appropriate risk allocation to the success of public-private partnership (PPP) projects justify specific research on the risk allocation practice in PPP projects, particularly whether the practice is...

Prediction of stock prices is an issue of interest to financial markets. Many prediction techniques have been reported in stock forecasting. Neural networks are viewed as one of the more suitable techniques. In this study, an experiment on the forecasting of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET)...