In this paper, we conducted an empirical analysis of the impact of implementation of shareholder perks, which attract small investors, on the risks of Japanese stocks. We tested hypotheses on the impact of implementation of shareholder perks on cost of equity capital, idiosyncratic risk, stock...

We investigate the impact of extreme weather conditions on the stock market returns of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Exchange. For the weather conditions, we apply dummy variables generated by applying a moving average and moving standard deviation. Our study provides two interesting...