This study examines, for the first time consistently, the performance of contrarian (value) strategies in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) based on the price/earnings ratios, dividend yields, size (in terms of market value), market to book ratios, financial leverage ratios and the beta...

We investigate whether asymmetric information affects the choice of the medium of payment (pure equity vs. pure cash) in U.S. takeover bids during the 1986-2008 period. To this end, we combine proxies for asymmetric information with proxies for the financial characteristics of both the bidding...

We test the hypothesis that the degree of asymmetric information should decrease as financial systems develop, in a panel co-integration framework with annual data for 32 countries. To this end, we extend Barron et al.'s (1998) model to derive a measure of analysts' consensus that takes into...

We test the hypothesis that the degree of asymmetric information should decrease as financial systems develop, in a panel co-integration framework with annual data for 32 countries. To this end, we extend Barron et al.'s (1998) model to derive a measure of analysts' consensus that takes into...