The paper analyzes the risk disclosure quality in the prospectus of IPOs in Germany between 2006 and 2008. Quality of risk information is measured as precision and comprehensibility. The relationship between risk disclosure quality and earnings power is tested.

This paper tests for relationship between Indian GDRs traded in Luxembourg / London and their underlying shares traded in Mumbai at two levels, viz., (a) between the stock prices at two exchanges; and (b) between the volatilities of the stock prices between the two exchanges. The relationship is...

We undertake a structural analysis of the Hasbrouck unobserved components and the Madhavan, Richardson, and Roomans microstructure models. We map carefully the relationship between the structural parameters and four alternative measures of price discovery: (1) Hasbrouck; (2) Harris-McInish-Wood;...

The current study, taking A and H dual listing shares as the participants, aimed to investigate the effect of China’s opening-up policy on the information transmission among dual listing shares. The results indicated that China’s opening-up policy strengthened the integration of...

The present study investigates the impact of dual listing of Australian shares on the NZSE. The results suggest that the average excess return on the day of listing is negative but is statistically insignificant. The negative excess return starts to accumulate before the day of listing and...

This paper empirically investigates the performance of transfer students from two-year colleges to four-year institutions at the course-level, especially colleges with significant minority student population. Advantages of looking at transfer student's performance at the course level are;...

The purpose of this paper is to answer the following question: are corporations responsible for protecting the environment? In order to answer this question, this paper addresses the following topics: major oil spills, corporate social responsibility, corporate social irresponsibility,...