Abstract A number of recent papers have hypothesized that the Federal Reserve possesses information about the course of inflation and output that is unknown to the private sector, and that policy actions by the Federal Reserve convey some of this superior information. We conduct two tests of...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether negative and positive monetary policy (MP) shocks have asymmetric impacts on corporate firms’ investment decisions in Pakistan using firm-level panel data set. Moreover, the authors emphasized on symmetric effects of MP; the authors examine...

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the relationship between stock prices and exchange rate movement in seven African countries. Design/methodology/approach – It uses vector autoregressive (VAR) cointegration and impulse response analysis to determine the long‐ and short‐run linkages...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of 51 sponsorship announcements upon the stock prices of firms sponsoring in Australia. The research examines the broader question of whether sponsorship has the potential to transcend cultural boundaries and contribute to financial...

Purpose – As one of the main purposes of financial statements is to provide relevant information for investors, relationships between share prices and accounting variables have been widely researched. Early studies focus mainly on earnings, but attention has turned in recent years to valuation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relations of investment and stock prices (Tobin‐Q), the impact of asymmetric information on the investment sensitivity to stock price, and the impact of asymmetric information on the stock price sensitivity to investment....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to research and analyze the influence of institutional investors in the present securities market due to behavior alienation with “running after rising and falling” and “herd behavior”. Design/methodology/approach – A DeLong, Shleifer, Summers,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose an analysis method based on a hybrid model, which combines principal component regression (PCR) model and general regression neural network (GRNN) to solve both multicollinearity problems and non‐linear problems at the same time....

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the concerns that high‐tech “new economy” companies employ aggressive revenue recognition practices to boost stock prices. Design/methodology/approach – The authors test empirically the hypothesis that revenue is more value relevant than other key...

This paper examines the assertion that the financial market pays fixed PE multiples and that the recognition of goodwill and subsequent amortization depresses earnings and stock prices, putting U.S. firms in a competitive disadvantage in the international merger and acquisition arena. Evidence...