The paper analyzed the impact of opening call auction on the efficiency of price discovery at the National Stock Exchange (NSE), India by studying the returns and volatility behavior of one benchmark index (NSE's Nifty) and 10 Nifty component companies selected on random. The paper used the...

Due to historically weaker institutions and less favourable macroeconomic conditions in the African context, we argue that corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) activities might be penalized less while corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities may be of less benefit for firms. Using a...

Following stakeholder resource-based theory (SRBT), we conceptualize the value relevance of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) based on the bargaining power that stakeholders possess regarding firms' inputs and revenue generations. Accordingly, we classify the stakeholders into residual...

We investigate the behavior of commodity futures risk premia in China. In the presence of retail-dominance and barriers-to-entry, the term structure and momentum premia remain persistent, whereas hedging pressure, skewness, volatility and liquidity premia are distorted by time-varying margins...

This essay documents the boom and bust of the Chinese A-share bubble in 2014-2015. The short-lived bull market started with the expectation of the state sector reform, capital market opening-up, and monetary easing. It was then fueled and heated by the flooding of new investors and the runaway...

Arabic Abstract: تهدف هذه الدراسة إلى تحديد مدى ممارسة تمهيد الدخل في الشركات المساهمة السعودية المدرجة في السوق المالية السعودية (تداول)، والتعرف على علاقة بعض خصائص...

We examine the superiority of political connections in the Chinese capital market through the lens of analysts' forecast optimism. We find that politically firms receive more optimistic earnings forecasts than their unconnected counterparties in the presence of stock crashes. Further analysis...

As currently practiced, earnout agreements in mergers and acquisitions lead to significant agency problems and also violate Islamic law. First, using regression and difference-in-difference techniques, we show that target managers significantly increase earnings by cutting discretionary expenses...

We perform an event study to investigate the efficiency of the Chinese stock market. We study the reaction of stock returns and trading volumes to the 2005-2006 structural reform which allowed the transformation of non-tradable shares (NTS) into tradable shares (TS) through payment of a...

Fund managers' style drift behaviour alters fund risks and may have an impact on fund performance that is detrimental to fund investor's interest. This paper is a first study on the existence and effects of style drift in the fast growing fund management industry in China. It provides a...