Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the information content in the Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 index revision and its impact on the corporate bonds and earnings of the firms whose stocks are added to or deleted from the index. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses panel...

Dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs) were introduced in Australia in 1982 primarily to help shareholders purchase new shares without transaction costs. Variants of the basic DRP were soon developed for taxation reasons to allow for income streaming. This paper examines the basic characteristics...

This event study examined the effect on shareholder returns of companies announcing their intention to introduce Dividend Reinvestment Plan (DRPs) offering a 10%, 7.5% and 5% discount. Overall the plans were received positively by the market. Also, the various discount sample results appear to...

The objective of this study is to describe the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and the geographic distribution of persons with HIV in the metropolitan area surrounding Vancouver, British Columbia. Specifically, we sought to determine the location of persons with HIV and...

Jump-Diffusion processes capture the standardized empirical statistical features of interest rate dynamis, thus providing an improved setting to overcome some of the mispricing of derivative securities that arises with the extensively develped pure diffusion models. A combination of...

The efficiency of capital markets is largely attributable to an effective information network that exists among market participantsthat include fund managers, analysts, and investors. The role of many market participants is to improve the flow of information to assist the market in becoming...

Regulations restricting investment by pension funds in high risk and foreign assets may quarantine member accounts from contagious transmissions during financial crises. This paper analyses contagion from US equity markets to emerging market autarchic assets (Colombian private pension funds)...

This paper examines market concentration and stock returns on the Australian Securities Exchange. We find that dominant companies operating in concentrated industries in Australia are able to generate significant risk-adjusted excess stock returns and excess profits on sales (monopoly rents)....