This paper examines the impact of five distinct Basel 3 announcements had on systematic risk levels of 122 internationally active banks in 37 countries over the sample period 2007-2013 using an extension of the Wagster (1996) market model. We extend the prior literature with methodology that...

This paper used an event study approach to examine the impact of dividend reinvestment plans on shareholders' returns in the pre- and post-imputation environments. The daily share return behaviour indicated that the announcement to introduce a dividend reinvestment plan (DRP) was received...

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