In this study, we used event study methodology to examine stock price reactions to quarterly earnings announcement. The study is based on a sample of 146 companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange and December 2000 quarterly earnings announcements are taken event. The abnormal performance is...

Speed of stock price response is important because if response is slow, the informed and alert investors would exploit it to earn abnormal returns by outperforming the market. This implies that market is inefficient in the semi-strong form. The study tests the reaction Indian stock market...

The study tests the reaction of Bahrain Bourse to 2014 annual financial results announcement. The study is based on 30 companies. The researcher used event study methodology. The behaviour of average abnormal returns (AARs) and cumulative average abnormal returns (CAARs) are examined for 30 days...

This paper analyzes empirically the behavior of foreign investors on emerging equity markets in a cross-country setting, including 14 emerging markets from the year 2000 to 2005. We could find little evidence that these investors have brought problems to local emerging markets. Foreign investors...

This paper examines whether the increased legal and reputational constraints associated with cross-listing in the U.S. reduces the propensity of insiders to trade on private information. We find that the directors in both domestic and cross-listed firms trade on private information, particularly...

We use transactions data to explore the magnet effects of price limit rules on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SHSE). When limit hits are imminent, stock prices are found to approach the price limits at faster rates, with higher trading intensity and larger price variation, supporting the magnet...

The main focus of this paper is to develop a framework for pricing of a multiple-event coupon paying CAT bond. The model is the first of its kind to address theoretical issues of pricing of an insurance-linked security that derives its value based on two underlying processes: catastrophic...

This study evaluates the implications of three of the extant IPO models relating underpricing and aftermarket liquidity. Using hand collected data from a sample of bookbuilt Hong Kong IPOs, this study tests the predictions of the aforementioned models by evaluating not only the direction and...

Using a VECM model, findings indicate significant short-run causality running from speculators' trading activity to futures prices. However, the magnitude of this effect was small. Long-run causality, on the other hand, runs from prices to speculators' activity and not vice versa, whenever spot...

Using CFTC's COT data, both GARCH and PARCH volatility based models found the lagged volatility and news about volatility from previous month to be significant in explaining large hedgers' and speculators' volatility. The greater reliance on the ARCH term for speculators' suggested their greater...