This paper examines the importance of corporate governance structures for the banking industry. It finds that there exist significant differences between the governance structures of banks based on their size and that banks’ stock market returns are significantly influenced by board...

Purpose This paper aims to analyze how political brinkmanship impacted Treasury yields during the debt ceiling debate in 2015. The results show that the resignation of the House Speaker John A. Boehner caused a significant decrease in Treasury bill yields of one- and three-month maturities. The...

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to check for reverse weekend effect in the Canadian stock market. Design/methodology/approach – T ‐tests, non‐parametric tests and regressions were employed. Findings – There is reverse weekend effect in the Canadian stock market. Canadian stocks...

Purpose – Several articles in the popular press have detailed an end-of-year anomaly known as the Santa Claus Rally, a period best defined as the last five trading days of December and the first two trading days of January. The purpose of this paper is to examine US stock market returns over...