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The present paper studies dependencies between European stock markets when returns are unusually large, using daily data on stock market indices for Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Italy from 1973 to 2001. Dependency is measured by the conditional probability of an...
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The reaction of stock prices to bankruptcy filing has been frequently analysed in the financial literature. In this paper we adopt a different approach to that of traditional study, and endeavour to determine whether the reaction of markets is conditioned by the orientation of bankruptcy law....
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The end result of major sporting events has been shown to affect next-day stock returns through shifts in investor mood. By studying the soccer matches that led to the elimination of France and Italy from the 2010 FIFA World Cup, we show that mood-related pricing effects can materialize as...
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This study investigates the listing of IPOs and the delisting from the Prime Standard, the highest regulated stock exchange segment in Germany. The German Stock Exchange instituted this market segment subsequent to the high-technology new economy period in 2003. For a sample of 531 firms, we...
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This paper presents the most extensive analysis of liquidity in the German equity market so far. We examine the … evolution of liquidity over time, the determinants of liquidity, and commonality across liquidity measures and countries. We … make use of a new publicly available dataset, the Market Microstructure Database Xetra (MMDB-Xetra). We find that liquidity …
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activity and five possible liquidity determinants: market capitalisation, dividend yield, earnings yield, company growth and … the cross-sectional variation in stock liquidity at a more detailed level. Originality/value - The originality of the … paper rests on two important grounds: the authors focus on trading turnover rather than on other liquidity proxies, since …
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This study provides empirical evidence verifying the theory of price discovery for Eastern European enterprises based on their cross-listing on Western European exchanges. Despite the fact that the crosslisting behavior of companies has been analyzed very actively since the mid-70s, many...
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This article analyzes intraday stock price and trading volume reactions to directors' dealings announcements in Germany and the United Kingdom from January 2007 to June 2010. The main findings show that prompt public disclosure of directors' dealings, as mandated by the EU Transparency...
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The international transmission of intraday price volatility among the United States, United Kingdom, and Japanese stock index futures markets in the period 1988-1994 is investigated in this paper. The empirical results based on extreme-value estimators and vector autoregression indicate the...
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