We investigate underlying factors that explain increases in the firm-specific volatilities of stock returns and fundamentals. We find that firm-specific volatilities are significantly higher in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries that are more information technology (IT)...

Using 550 million limit orders submitted in the Korea Stock Exchange, we estimate demand and supply elasticities of heterogeneous investor types and their changes around the Asian financial crisis. We find that domestic individuals have substantially more inelastic demand and supply curves than...

Purpose – The primary objective of this paper is to examine the association between the seven human-resource features (spanning three major themes: qualifications and credentials; business and initial public offering (IPO) launch experience; and diversity) of independent audit committee members...

Using a sample of 260 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the Korea Stock Exchange during the January 1985 – March 1990 period, this paper investigates the role of information disclosed through the prospectus in the new issues market. The evidence indicates that the market price is...

In this paper, we empirically investigate Korean initial public offerings (IPOs) to provide one case of the international evidence on the long-run performance of IPOs. Our sample consists of 169 firms listed on the Korea Stock Exchange during the period 1985–1989. Unlike previous international...

The benefits of listing a company's stock on a foreign exchange to achieve better global market integration have been quite extensively examined. What has been overlooked in the finance literature is an attempt to explain why the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) tends to be bypassed in favor of...

Empirical evidence by Eun and Resnick (1988), among others, has demonstrated the significance of exchange rate risk in the international asset allocation and they have noted that the risk is nondiversifiable. Yet, exchange rate risk was found by Jorion (1991) to be a risk factor that is not...

The first author is at Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The second author is at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. The third author is at Concordia University. They have received very helpful comments...