Moving average (MA) and channel rules (CH) are applied to ten spot cross-rates - AUD/JPY,GBP/JPY,CAD/JPY,DEM/GBP,DEM/ITL,DEM/JPY,DEM/CHF,CHF/GBP, and CHF/JPY - to examine whether opportunities for profitable trading exist. The results suggest that neither trasding rule is profitable. Overall,...

Our paper examines whether holding multiple outside board seats compromises a director's ability to effectively perform monitoring duties. Analyzing over 1400 firms, we report that individuals who hold more outside directorships serve on fewer board committees. The relation, however, appears...

There is an inherent conflict of interest between managers and shareholders when all or part of a public corporation is taken private and managers become major shareholders in the newly privatized firm. The role of outside directors who are independent of management is investigated to determine...

Night trading provides an ideal laboratory to assess the behavior of stock markets when institutional liquidity providers are less active. The evidence indicates that extreme positive (winner) and negative (loser) stock-price movements during night sessions are followed by reversals the next...

In this paper, we examine the share price effects and determinants of share repurchase programs for French, German, Italian, and British firms. Like US firms, we find that German and Italian share repurchases are met with a positive and significant share price response. However, British...