This paper examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect in the Italian stock market index (MIB) sub-sectoral returns. The study, by using GARCH-M (1,1) models, did not find evidence of the day-of-the-week effect in mean equations, while some evidence was present in variance equations. The...

In this article we test the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis for Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) equity markets for the period 1999-2009. To test weak-form efficiency in the markets, this study uses autocorrelation analysis runs test and variance ratio test. We find that stock...

This paper examines the dynamics of stock prices adjustment to fundamental value proxied by dividend per share and earnings per share on the Tunisian stock market based on the cointegration techniques. First, the linear cointegration between stock prices and fundamental values is examined by...

This paper investigates the day of the week effect in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) General Index over a ten year period divided into two subperiods: 1995-2000 and 2001-2004. Five major indices are also considered: Banking, Insurance, and Miscellaneous for the first subperiod, and FTSE-20 and...

The co-movement of revenue growth across different industries changes over the business cycle. Using a large sample of quarterly firm revenues, aggregated to industry data from 1969 to 2009, we demonstrate that the correlation is the highest during a crisis. Our findings of structural changes in...

The 1964 Securities Acts Amendments extended the mandatory disclosure requirements that had applied to listed firms since 1934 to large firms traded Over-the-Counter (OTC). We find several pieces of evidence indicating that investors valued these disclosure requirements, two of which are...

Using a unique dataset of foreign and domestic IPOs listings in the US from 1990 to 2012, we study how foreignness affects IPO liquidity. We find that foreign IPOs enjoy higher liquidity than IPOs in their home countries, but do not fully gain the same liquidity benefits as for IPOs of domestic...

In 2009, the SEC mandated that financial statements be filed using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). The SEC contends that this new search-facilitating technology will reduce informational barriers that separate smaller, less-sophisticated investors from larger, more-sophisticated...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the existing literature in behavioral finance by investigating the role played by company's investor relations website/webpage in inducing the individual investor's intention to invest in the company. The study investigates the role of...