This article analyzes intraday stock price and trading volume reactions to directors' dealings announcements in Germany and the United Kingdom from January 2007 to June 2010. The main findings show that prompt public disclosure of directors' dealings, as mandated by the EU Transparency...

This paper explores the relationship between central bank communication and market sentiment,and proposes a new measure. Market sentiment is proxied using a Twitter-based metric: theCentral Bank Surprise Index. The empirical study covers three cases: the Federal Reserve, theEuropean Central Bank...

This paper examines whether star-analysts have better forecasting abilities than non-star-analysts. Our results reveal that star-analysts' earnings forecasts outperform their peers' forecasts. Because the level of corporate governance plays an important role for the general level of forecast...

The international transmission of intraday price volatility among the United States, United Kingdom, and Japanese stock index futures markets in the period 1988-1994 is investigated in this paper. The empirical results based on extreme-value estimators and vector autoregression indicate the...

This article examines UK investment trusts using a sample of 210 investment trusts from the period 1990 to 2006. The sample is free of survivorship bias. We find evidence of long-term managerial positive persistence. Performance is measured by Jensen's alpha based on regression models such as...

This article addressed one of the hardest unanswered legal questions facing the modern nonprofit corporation: How much discretion should nonprofit boards have to redefine an organization's mission - for instance by changing an acute care hospital into outpatient neighborhood clinics, or by...