In this study, stocks traded in the Istanbul Stock Exchange-100 (ISE- 100) Index are classified according to a risk-return criterion using hierarchical clustering algorithms. Doing this, it is intended to show that how an informed investor can make more rational investments using cluster...

A ban on short selling exists on several exchanges, especially in emerging markets. In most cases, short selling has always been prohibited, thus making it difficult to examine the ban’s effect on price discovery. In this paper, we consider data from the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) to test for...

The signaling hypothesis suggests that firms have incentives to underprice their initial public offerings (IPOs) to signal their quality to the outside investors and to issue seasoned equity (SEO) at more favorable terms. While the initial empirical evidence on the signaling hypothesis was weak,...