This study examines the relationship between illiquidity premium and equity returns in Pakistani equity market for the period 2000:6 to 2007:6 by using Fama and French (1992 and 1993) methodology. This is the first study that explores the relationship between illiquidity premium and equity...

The theme of this study is to examine the effect of size on the basis of market capitalization and leverage with high and low debt-to-equity ratios on identified portfolios required rate of returns listed at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Multivariate regression has been used to identify the...

In this paper, we examine whether jumps matter in both equity market returns and integrated volatility. For this purpose, we use the swap variance (SwV) approach to identify monthly jumps and estimated realized volatility in prices for both developed and emerging markets from February 2001 to...

This study examines long term and short term inter-linkage between liquidity dimensions and equity returns in oil and gas sector of an emerging stock market for the time period 2009-2015.Conventional liquidity ratio and Amihud ratio are used to capture Price impact. Roll estimator is employed to...