This study introduces a new asset pricing factor to capture both the effects of concentrated ownership and institutional development of in 61 international equity markets. The evidence suggests the new measure offers significant improvements over the size and book-to-market value three factor...

The New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development focuses on the benefits to integration of many smaller African markets with South Africa as the central hub motivated by a wish to attract foreign investment and increase liquidity. However, little attention has been paid to issues regarding...

This paper examines how the public announcement of foreign share acquisitions in listed companies affects the share prices of those companies. The dataset contains 422 public announcements of foreign share acquisitions in Korean listed companies over the period from March 2005 to June 2009. The...