From the agency perspective, literature studying links between investor protection and governance profiles argues that family is more disposed than other shareholders to divert private benefits in countries with a poor legal framework: the question is empirically puzzling. From the stewardship...

This paper tests for the stock market reaction to corporate debt-based securities offering. A standard event study framework is applied to calculate and test Average Abnormal Returns (AARs) and Cumulative Average Abnormal Returns (CAARs), both on and surrounding the announcement date. A...

We study the effect of block shareholding on stock liquidity using panel models for 128 stocks from the period 2011 to 2014. After controlling for the size of the firm, ownership concentration is found to have a small statistically significant negative effect on liquidity. Ownership structure...

Since the first appearance of the fundamental law of active management, researchers have proposed several directions for its improvement. One important area is in active risk. As the authors explain, instead of using unconditional active risk as a risk estimator, a new source of active risk,...

Because levered equity is an option on the firm, variations in asset idiosyncratic risk (ivol) induces a negative relationship between equity ivol and expected returns. We show that the effect is caused by the nonlinear payoff of equity and the law of one price, and is present in all but...

Examining the Taiwan Stock Exchange during the period of January 1991 to June 2009, this research attempts to discover the influence of macroeconomic factors and investor sentiment on market momentum. The OLS model is used for initially understanding whether the influence on the market momentum,...

Value at Risk (VaR) is defined as the worst expected loss under normal market conditions over a specific time interval at a given confidence level. Given the widespread usage of VaR, it becomes increasingly important to study the effects of the portfolio optimization subject to the VaR...

A well developed and competitive financial market with financial inclusion is a must, if India has to emerge as a strong knowledge based economy. The transformation of Indian equity market, that till 1990s, was plagued with inefficiency with respect to trading, settlement and surveillance, and...

The study evaluates the influence of cash flow on the financial distress of private listed enterprises on the Vietnamese stock market from 2010 to 2020. We use the data collected from the financial statements of 263 private non-financial enterprises listed on the Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi stock...

This paper investigates the co-movement between cryptocurrencies and African stock returns to uncover their degree of association and global portfolio diversification benefits implementing the three-dimensional continuous Morlet wavelet transform technique. Data span 10 August 2015 to 10...