This study examines the connections between stock prices and key macroeconomic indicators: inflation, industrial production, interest rates, money supply and select interactions between the latter group of variables. Such links are evaluated through vector-autoregressions (VARs) on monthly data...

PurposeThe main objective of this study is to obtain new empirical evidence about the connections between equity trading activity and five possible liquidity determinants: market capitalisation, dividend yield, earnings yield, company growth, and the distinction between recently-listed firms as...

This study applies different statistical tests to investigate whether monthly volatility patterns prevailing on a cross section of stock markets are present on the Malta Stock Exchange. A January effect is detected, together with a variant of the Turn-Of-The-Month effect, in that volatility...

Purpose This paper examines whether there are differences in the nature of the price discovery process across established versus emerging stock markets using a twenty-country sample. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyse security returns for traces of predictability or non-randomness...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to obtain new empirical evidence about the connections between equity trading activity and five possible liquidity determinants: market capitalisation, dividend yield, earnings yield, company growth and the distinction between recently listed firms as...