The aim of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of water transportation company stock returns in the U.S. stock exchanges from 1985 to 1994 in order to determine whether the systematic risk of this industry is different from that of the 'average' company in the market, whether it has...

The focus of this paper is the review the empirical work in the area of shipping finance, which deals with the companies in the shipping sector that have made the decision to resort to the capital markets in order to finance their activities. The paper is concerned with the performance of listed...

The purpose of the paper is to examine the effects of different trading systems, the open outcry and the electronic systems, which differ in the speed of dissemination of order flow information, on the relation between trading activity and conditional volatility, on the probability distribution...

The paper investigates the dynamics of price changes and information flow to the market in the Athens Stock Exchange in Greece using daily data over the period 1988 to 1993. A generalised autoregressive conditional heteroskedastic (GARCH) model in stock returns is shown to reflect time...

In this paper, we examine the effects of price limits on the stock volatility in ASE. We put forward two hypotheses, the information hypothesis, which implies that price limits only slow down the process of adjustment and have no effect on stock volatility; and the overreaction hypothesis, which...

Market efficiency tests in developing markets display mixed evidence, in contrast to evidence on developed markets where the null hypothesis seems to be supported. Specifically, previous tests for market efficiency on the index and on samples of stocks traded in the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE)...