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...

The paper discusses the possible effects of short sales on the operation of a very small stock market such as the Maltese one. After studying the basic mechanics of short selling procedures, the paper reviews the salient literature with particular reference to how short sales may enhance...