This study investigates the impact of active investment management on the efficiency of public security markets. The scholarly literature indicates that active management contributes to market efficiency, thereby providing positive externalities for all investors, including investors in...

Aim/purpose - The aim of this paper is to verify whether extremely high values of market value ratios are the symptoms of informational inefficiency of the market in a weak form. The authors intend to examine whether these phenomena co-occur with each other. Design/methodology/approach -...

Over-the-counter (OTC) markets attract substantial trading volume despite exhibiting frictions absent in centralized limit-order markets. We compare the efficiency of OTC and limit-order markets when traders' expertise is endogenous. We show that asymmetric access to counterparties in OTC...

Most markets that choose settlement day following expiration day select opening price rather than closing price as final settlement price (FSP) when index derivatives expire, while most markets that choose settlement day the same as expiration day select an average price rather than a single...

An efficient stock market plays an important role in stimulating economic development through providing a channel for mobilising domestic savings and facilitating the allocation of financial resources from dormant to more productive activities. This paper evaluates the Ugandan Securities...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the information disclosure quantity on the pricing efficiency of stocks. Using a sample of large and actively traded Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the authors utilize annual reports filed on system for...

The efficient market research to date has focused mostly on the developed stock markets. To be efficient the market needs to be large and liquid, transaction costs should be cheaper than the expected investment strategy profits and Macedonian capital market as a developing market is...

We develop a model featuring managerial learning from exchange market to analyze how alternative trading systems (ATS) affect exchange market efficiency and real efficiency. An informed investor chooses the exchange market with positive probability when firm fundamentals are good but trades...

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...