The paper tests if the documented size effect in the Indian stock market is an anomaly with respect to market efficiency or an artifact with respect to data or methodology employed. The study employs two related datasets (one being held constant through the study period, the other being revised...

We study the impact of the adoption of zero commissions by major retail brokers and find that retail brokers that started charging zero commissions dramatically increase their market share of client assets. In addition, these retail brokers increasingly routed orders off exchange (i.e., OTC) to...

The purpose of this study is to measure the financial efficiencies of the selected trade companies listed on Istanbul Stock Exchange for the 4-year period of 2009-2012 by using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) over the financial ratios. As a result of the analyses, efficient and inefficient...

There has been no previous research on the link between license market and stock market. Are the two markets integrated or coupled such that the valuation of the same portfolio of intangible assets is consistent cross market? This study tries to fill the research gap. Based on the data of...

We propose and perform an empirical experiment to isolate the two factors pointed by Hou and Robinson (2006) as potential causes of what we call the concentration discount. These two factors are: innovation risk; and distress risk triggered by the absence of barriers-to-entry. Brazilian law...

We examine day-trading activities for 540 stocks traded on the Korea Stock Exchange using transactions data for the period from 1999 to 2000. Our cross-sectional analysis reveals that day-traders prefer lower-priced, more liquid, and more volatile stocks. By estimating various bivariate VAR...

Stock exchange operators compete for order flow by setting "make" fees for limit orders and "take" fees for market orders. When traders quote continuous prices, they can choose prices that perfectly neutralize any fee division, and traders stream to the exchange with the lowest total fee. The...

The empirical literature on the potential collusive effects of common-ownership relies heavily on financial institution mergers to make causal inferences. I find that more than 85% of newly-formed common-ownership relationships due to such financial institution mergers are no longer...

In March of 2000 the New York Stock Exchange proposed a merger with The Nasdaq Stock Market. Applying a qualitative assessment to the proposed merger from the organizations' perspective it is argued that the merger would be favorable for both organizations. Applying a quantitative assessment to...

We assemble data of non-financial stocks on the Shenzhen small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) board over the 2005-2019 sample period to explore the liquidity drivers of listed SMEs. With the complete dominance of retail investors, two competing hypotheses are derived from familiarity. The...