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The Relationship between Short Interest and Stock Returns in the Canadian Market

Ackert, Lucy; Athanassakos, George - 2005

This paper provides new insight into the relationship between short sales and stock market returns using a sample of stocks sold short in Canada. Short interest is defined in relation to trading volume. The results strongly support the assertion that short sales and excess returns are...

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Client Importance and Earnings Management: The Moderating Role of Audit Committees

Sharma, Vineeta D.; Sharma, Divesh S.; … - 2011

-based measures, both performance-adjusted discretionary total and current accruals as proxies for earnings management, and a measure …

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Relations Between Stock Returns and Fundamental Variables: Evidence from a Segmented Market

Dhatt, Manjeet S.; Kim, Yong H.; Mukherji, Sandip - 1999

This study examines relations between stock returns and potential explanatory factors in Korea, an important and segmented emerging market. Our results show that Korean stock returns in general and returns on stocks listed in Section 1 in particular are significantly positively related to...

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The Skinny on the 2008 Naked Short-Sale Restrictions

Boulton, Thomas; Braga-Alves, Marcus - 2010

On July 15, 2008, the US Securities and Exchange Commission announced temporary restrictions on naked short sales of the stocks of 19 financial firms. The restrictions offer a unique empirical setting to test Miller?s (1977) conjecture that short-sale constraints result in overpriced securities...

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Caught on Tape: Institutional Trading, Stock Returns, and Earnings Announcements

Campbell, John; Schwartz, Allie; Ramadorai, Tarun - 2009

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A Structural Analysis of the European Monetary Union and its Effect on Greece in Light of the European Financial Crisis

Ramos, Stephanie C - 2011

for the European Financial Crisis, specifically with respect to Greece. This analysis will be driven by a trend analysis … Greek government. The ECB’s inability to enforce the Maastricht Criteria and independent fiscal policy, as well as Greece … loss of competitiveness and irresponsible rise in sovereign debt for Greece. It is inferred that the EMU was ineffective in …

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Modeling the economic growth of Greece

Alexakos, Karolos A. - 1998

The objective of this project is to use an econometric model to examine economic growth in Greece. Using a growth model …

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Stock Market Pressure on Inventory Investment and Sales Reporting for Publicly Traded Firms

Lai, Guoming; Debo, Laurens; Nan, Lin - 2008

Operations of publicly traded firms differ from privately owned firms because public firms' managers make decisions based on their own interests. In this paper, we study how stock market pressure may influence a manager's inventory and operational management. Our model is a straightforward...

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The Bombay stock exchange: seasonalities and investment opportunities

Ignatius, Roger - 1992

This paper examines the relationship of stock return patterns on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) with those of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It also examines investment opportunities for international investors. The data include daily closing values of the BSE and SSP 500 Indexes for the...

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Intra-industry reactions of stock split announcements;

Tawatnuntachai, Oranee; D'Mello, Ranjan - 1999

This paper examines whether favorable information conveyed by stock split announcements transfers to non-splitting firms within the same industry. We find that there exists intra-industry reaction; shareholders of non-splitting firms experience significant positive abnormal returns during the...

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