This paper theoretically examines the impact of conservatism on the asset price in an asset market allowing for strategic interactions among traders. Due to the trades coming from conservatism traders contain less informational content, the asset price is shown to be less informative in the...

The Securities and Futures Bureau (SFB) of Taiwan prescribes that firms applying for an initial listing after February 2002 must have at least two seats of independent directors (IDs) on the board. Under the SFB 2002 rules, this paper investigates the effect of such governance reforms in ID...

This study was conducted to investigate the influence of firm-specific characteristics which include firm size, profitability, debt equity ratio, liquidity and audit firm size on voluntary disclosure level of rural banks in the Ashanti region of Ghana. The research was conducted through detailed...

In this paper the author compared 13stock exchange indexes of American, British and German markets and determined their impact on Polish Wig and WIG20 indexes. The analysis proved that the British FTSE100 and FTSE250 as well as the German DAX had the biggest influence on the Warsaw indexes. The...

This contribution analyzes bull and bear markets from 1954:1-2011:2 in the US-stock index S&P 500. Thereby, a 2-State-Markov-Switching model is applied to figure out bull and bear market regimes within the latter period, whereby the estimated state probabilities are used to estimate a dummy...

This paper first examines to what extend the most puzzling phenomenon of stock returns momentum, may also concern emerging and little markets, such the Tunisian one, which accounts slightly less than 100 listed securities. The results indicate a pronounced and even stronger momentum effect that...

The purpose of this research is try to create Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) alternative model at Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) that analyze the effect of the investment risk, trading activity and market multiple on stock return on low (IDR5 and IDR10), medium (IDR25), high (IDR50) and all...

This study proposes a process for observing evidence of insider trading in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). This is performed by building an environment which, based upon previous research, common sense and information technology, may be used for observing such evidence. It is designed to be...

This paper shows that most admired companies generate admirable stock performance relative to the market. The current study analyses risk premiums and risk-adjusted excess returns of a portfolio of firms ranked as the most admired companies in the United States from 2006 to 2011. The results...

This study investigates how commercial paper rates respond to the innovations in stock market risk premiums. The unrestricted vector autoregression (VAR) analysis of monthly data from 1997:1 to 2012:M6 shows that the changes in the one-, two-, and three-month non-financial and financial...