The purpose of this article is to show on the example of Warsaw Stock Exchange, Poland (WSE) how in emerging capital markets dividends provide information about earnings quality as measured by their persistence. In the paper the regressions models of future earnings (in years t + 1 and t + 2)...

At its inception, social capital which was strengthening through tight human relationships in business organizations afterward matured in to intellectual capital (IC). In the rise of knowledge economy, the significance of IC has been gradually increased with its prominent features of deriving...

The profitability of analysts' recommendations is documented in numerous studies from all over the world. However, the evidence from the Polish market is relatively modest. The primary aim of this study is to fill this gap. The paper contributes to the economic literature in four ways. First, it...

In this paper we investigate sources and characteristics of value, size and momentum profits on the Polish stock market. The research aims to broaden the academic knowledge in a few ways. First, we deliver fresh out-of-sample evidence on value, momentum, and size premiums. Second, we analyzemthe...

News media plays an important role in modern financial markets. In this paper, we analyse the role played by the news media in an historical financial market. Using The Times's coverage of companies listed on the London stock market between 1825 and 1870, we examine the determinants of media...

In this thesis, we employed data from the NSE to investigate the existence of the price momentum effect, the profitability of momentum trading strategies, and the possibility of seasonal and reversal patterns in the profitability. We formed relative strength strategies for all stocks listed over...

In this study we propose a new price impact ratio as an alternative to the widely used Amihud's (2002) Return-to-Volume ratio (RtoV). This new measure, which is deemed Return-to-Turnover ratio (RtoTR), essentially modifies RtoV by substituting trading volume in its denominator with the turnover...

This paper investigates whether long-term contrarian performance on the UK market is driven by low-priced stocks. We find that contrarian performance at low, middle, low price levels is positive. On the Fama-French risk adjusted basis, we find both low-priced and middle-priced losers have...

In this article the relationship between market return and volatility is examined by applying out-of-sample methodology and ARCH (M) class models in the Tehran Stock Exchange (TSE) and international stock exchanges. The results are inconsistent with portfolio theory implications in NASDAQ, ISE...

This research classified as asset pricing studies that conducted to identify the effect of idiosyncratic risk and expected return in Indonesia Stock Exchange (ISE). The idiosyncratic risk is proxy by idiosyncratic volatility, realized and expected idiosyncratic volatility, as a natural proxy for...