ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This event study examines the effect that Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) announcements have on a companies' share price. The average mean return model is applied to study a sample of companies from the Financial Mail Top 200 Empowerment Companies list, 2007. The mean price...

Rate of return or cost of service regulation was the traditional means by which governments, especially in the USA, regulated profitability and prices in privately-owned public utility businesses. However, rate of return regulation was associated with efficiency disincentives. Hence, in 1983...

Desy Marliany Nasution, 2009. Influence of Cash Flows from Operation, Firm Size, Earnings and Economic Value Added to the Rate of Return of Banking Emiten Listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange, with counsellor commission; Ade FatmaLubis, (Chief) and Iskandar Muda (Member).This research aim to to...

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Most initial public offerings (IPOs) feature share lockup agreements, which prohibit insiders from selling their shares for a specified period of time following the IPO. However, some IPO firms agree to have a much longer lockup period than other IPO firms, and some are willing to lockup a much...

Volatility modelling is a key issue for the finance industry from an academic and practitioner perspective. This is understandable given the importance that volatility plays in risk management and the development of accurate risk measures in a univariate or multivariate framework. To illustrate,...

Įmonių vadovams ypatingai aktuali galimybė rasti pelno ir pelningumo rodiklių gerinimo sprendimą grupuojant paslaugas bei taikant jų klientams atitinkamas sąlygas. Įvertinant pelningumą būtina analizę atlikti per jos teikiamų paslaugų ir klientų prizmę ypač tuomet, kai jų veikla...

The traditional workplace is evolving; the way in which businesses communicate today is different than it was in the past and yet is likely to change again in the future. The current state of the economy and globalization has forced every organization to review its future business plans and cut...

On average, investors in stocks of West Michigan-based companies lost money in 2007. Three out of four companies saw their stock prices decline. Interestingly, prices of only three of the fourteen stocks comprising the Index rose, while the others fell, often substantially. How does the Index...

Socially responsible property investment (SRPI) has taken on increased significance in recent years, as property investors have given an increased priority to environmental, social and governance issues in their property investment decision making. The purpose of this paper is to establish SRPI...