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the London Stock Exchange, investigating separately the trading of active market members and of other market participants …
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The study investigates the information content of insider trading transactions employing different signal definitions. Using directors' open market dealings during the period 1999-2000 for FTSE100 companies and new extensions of the event study methodology, the evidence suggests directors have,...
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In the early stock market in London there were substantial risks of non-payment and fraud. (Mortimer, 1801) According … come from the state. This article outlines the emergence of the London Stock Exchange, which was created by eighteenth …
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the London Stock Exchange during the period 1986-2008. Our empirical results confirm that coskewness and cokurtosis premia …
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This paper investigates whether long-term contrarian performance on the UK market is driven by low-priced stocks. We find that contrarian performance at low, middle, low price levels is positive. On the Fama-French risk adjusted basis, we find both low-priced and middle-priced losers have...
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This paper investigates the reaction of the London Stock Exchange to the announcement of the city hosting 2012 Summer …. These expectations are presumed to be translated into positive stock price returns. This research examines the London Stock … results suggest an overall positive impact of the announcement on the London Stock Exchange, something that is consistent with …
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This study examines the effects of female leadership, at both board-level and individual-level, on the corporate value of UK FTSE100 stocks. United Kingdom is a valuable sample for this research as the UK governance sets the goal that at least a third of UK boardroom positions should be held by...
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This study is the first to examine whether systematic liquidity risk is priced on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). We …
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This study examines the relationship between systematic liquidity risk and stock price reaction to large one-day price changes (or shocks). We base our analysis on 642 constituents of the FTSEALL share index. Our overall results are consistent with Brown et al.'s (1988) uncertain information...
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We study momentum and its predictability within equities listed at the London Stock Exchange (1820-1930). At the time …
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