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This study examines the effect of corporate ownership on information asymmetry as measured by bid-ask spread in the emerging markets of China. Government ownership has significant and positive impacts on bid-ask spread during the period 1995–2000, but disappears afterward during 2001–2003....
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We examine the relation between market liquidity and ownership concentration and the effect of different types of … blockholders on stock market liquidity in Germany. For the overall sample high ownership concentration is negatively related to … market liquidity as measured by an order-size-dependent volume-weighted spread measure, which is called Xetra liquidity …
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This study examines the relation between asset liquidity and stock liquidity across 47 countries. In support of the … valuation uncertainty hypothesis, we find that firms with greater asset liquidity on average have higher stock liquidity. More … importantly, our study shows that asset liquidity plays a more significant role in resolving valuation uncertainty in countries …
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document higher direct flotation costs, but also improved stock market liquidity after public offerings and standby rights … relative to uninsured rights. We find that blockholder renouncements to subscribe to new shares and stock market liquidity are … that public offerings are cost effective and more liquidity improving than standby rights whereas an uninsured rights …
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This study investigates the ability of three versions of Altman's Z-Score model (Z, Z', and Z”) of distress prediction developed in the U.S. to predict the corporate distress in the emerging market of Sri Lanka. The results show that these models have a remarkable degree of accuracy in...
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The paper shows that issuing activity does not result in superior liquidity. Even the kinds of new issues that are … existing liquidity-based explanations of the new issues puzzle. The paper also shows that the low-minus-high turnover factor …
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This paper examines stock liquidity in explaining the mixed relations between financial constraints and stock returns … and the pricing of stock liquidity across financially constrained and unconstrained firms. We find a negative relation in … liquid portfolios and a positive relation in illiquid portfolios. Financially constrained firms have higher liquidity risk …
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This study is motivated by the continuing popularity of the Altman Z-score as a measure of distress risk. Altman first introduced the ‘Z' score in 1968 and 50 years later it is still going strong as a means to predicting bankruptcy. During these 50 years, academicians have studied the...
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although foreign investors increase adverse selection risks for liquidity providers, they bring net benefit to the market in …
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although foreign investors increase adverse selection risks for liquidity providers, they bring net benefit to the market in …
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