In present study, I explore the dynamics of stock price reversals. In particular, I try to shed light on the overnight reversals, that is, on the price reversals between the end of a trading day and the opening session of the next trading day. To account for the "end-of-the-day" price moves, for...

The close relationship between commodity future and cash prices is critical for the effectiveness of risk management and the functioning of price discovery. However, in recent years, commodity futures prices, across the board, have appeared increasingly detached from prices on physical markets....

This paper analyzes the technical efficiency in the Mexican manufacturing sector in which determinants and changes of the efficiency since NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) are studied using the Panel Data Stochastic Frontier Analysis in its time-invariant and time-variant versions,...

International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has become the new dominant set of accounting standards; however the transition to the new regime may be fairly disruptive for users of financial statements as comparability and trend analysis may be impaired. The objective of this study is to...

In financial markets with asymmetric information, traders may have an incentive to forgo profitable deals today in order to preserve their informational advantage for future deals. This sort of manipulative behaviour has been studied in markets with one informed trader (Kyle 1985, Chakraborty...

We analyze a comprehensive sample of more than 10,000 U.S. stocks in the OTC market. As little is known about this market, we first characterize OTC firms by trading venue and provide evidence on survival, success, frequency of venue changes, reporting status, and trading activity. A large...

We study heterogeneity in the comovement of corporate bonds and equities, both at the bond level and at the firm level. Using an extended Merton model, we illustrate that corporate bonds that mature late relative to the rest of the bonds in its issuer's maturity structure should have stronger...

This study investigates the presence on Bucharest Stock Exchange of one of the most documented seasonal anomalies of financial assets’ returns: the day-of-the-week effect. We use daily returns for five Romanian official exchange indices and for one MSCI Barra country index during May...

In this study, the impact of macroeconomic factors on return, volume and volatility of futures contracts traded in TurkDEX with underlying asset of ISE 100, ISE 30, Dollar and Euro, were examined for the period between February 2005 - November 2011; and volatility forecasting has been tested. As a...

El trabajo analiza el comportamiento del Ibex35, durante el período que abarca desde enero de 1999 a diciem¬bre de 2011, con el objetivo de comprobar si sigue un proceso diferente al paseo aleatorio, de tal forma que su rendimiento no se caracteriza por ser ruido blanco y resulta, en contra de...