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This study examines the effects of female leadership, at both board-level and individual-level, on the corporate value of UK FTSE100 stocks. United Kingdom is a valuable sample for this research as the UK governance sets the goal that at least a third of UK boardroom positions should be held by...
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This study is the first to examine whether systematic liquidity risk is priced on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). We …
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This study examines the relationship between systematic liquidity risk and stock price reaction to large one-day price changes (or shocks). We base our analysis on 642 constituents of the FTSEALL share index. Our overall results are consistent with Brown et al.'s (1988) uncertain information...
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We study momentum and its predictability within equities listed at the London Stock Exchange (1820-1930). At the time …
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This paper looks at divestitures by 144 UK firms listed on the London Stock Exchange from 1985 to 1991 and investigates …
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This study examines the ex-post consequences of CEO compensation for shareholder value. The main objective is to explore whether companies that pay their CEO excessive fees (in comparison to those of peer firms in the same industry and size group) generate superior future returns and better...
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The period of 2010-2012 was characterized by information uncertainty and market volatility. Information uncertainty is a critical characteristic of financial market behavior. The ability to absorb and distribute information is central to financial market efficiency. Uncertain corporate earnings...
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. This paper approaches the presence of such patterns in the evolution of the closed values of five indexes from the London …
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The London Stock Exchange (LSE) has been an institution caught in the midst of political, economic and technological …, as NASDAQ and the NYSE were obliged to do, the City of London instead brought the world (in the form of diversity of the … markets, expertise and human capital) to London. The most recent of a long string of merger negotiations, that of the LSE and …
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Previously unknown basic statistics are obtained about the operations of the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in early …
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