The role of outside directors is one of the key features in the transatlantic corporate governance debate. As their importance rises, their liability is also attracting attention. Since there are only a few cases internationally in which outside directors of listed companies have been held...

We investigate the influence of public companies on their local economies through the spending of their employees on local goods and services. Using the taxicab industry in New York City as a laboratory, we find that tips paid for taxis taken near firms’ headquarters are higher on the days...

This paper attempts to examine the link between the stock market volatility and the important economic events in the context of emerging markets and developed markets in scenario of global market crises. Historically several studies have been undertaken on the stock market volatility and...

We adopt a power law framework to measure the concentration of daily trading among the different stocks on the US market. Our analysis of the trends of daily concentration over the last five decades reveals that trading concentration is lower on Mondays and the day after a long weekend. These...

Understanding consumer behaviours is important in designing dynamic tariffs, which are usually considered the first-best solution when the conventional flat tariff does not reflect the varying cost of electricity generation. I find peak prices (17:00-20:00) reduce peak and post-peak consumption...

The often reported empirical success of trend-following technical timing strategies remains to be puzzling. In previous academic research, many authors admit some prediction power but struggle to substantiate their findings by referring vaguely to insufficient market effciency or unknown hidden...

The extension of the franchise to social groups with less property and income is associated with greater income redistribution from the rich to the poor and extension in the provision of public goods, which leads to the growth of government expenditure. All of these expected changes are costly...

We present an empirical study focusing on the estimation of a fundamental multi-factor model for a universe of European stocks. Following the approach of the BARRA model, we have adopted a cross-sectional methodology. The proportion of explained variance ranges from 7.3% to 66.3% in the weekly...

The article tests for a random walk in European equity style indexes. After briefly introducing the efficient market hypothesis, equity styles in general and the used statistical techniques (Variance Ratio Test and modified Rescaled Range Test) it is shown that a random walk in European equity...

Recent studies suggest that the correlation of stock returns increases with decreasing geographical distance. However, there is some debate on the appropriate methodology for measuring the effects of distance on correlation. We modify a regression approach suggested in the literature and...