This paper examines the conditions under which companies and investors in emerging economies will benefit from the development of domestic stock markets. It is shown how the development of both domestic and foreign stock markets reduces cross-border investment and information barriers,...

This study examines the abnormal returns of Chinese firms cross-listed on both mainland (A-share) and Hong Kong (H-share) stock markets. The results show that the abnormal returns are larger for the existing H-shares cross-listing back as A-shares in the mainland market (H-to-A listings) than...

The absence of liquidity in the stock market causes uneasiness in the market. Proper trading strategies are devised when liquidity is present making the magnitude of returns determinable. The study investigated stock market liquidity levels for the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange during the pre-Covid...

This paper examines the linkage between two parallel stock exchanges trading the same shares in Colombia, namely the Bogotá Stock Exchange and the Medellín Stock Exchange. We provide empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that these two markets can be best described as fully integrated...

From the Efficient Market Hypothesis, a market is efficient if security prices fully and correctly reflect all available information that is relevant for the stock’s pricing. This requires a medium of information dissemination and transaction ordering with both speed and accuracy. This paper...

The efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) is one of the most important economic and financial hypotheses that have been tested over the past century. Due to many abnormal phenomena and conflicting evidence, otherwise known as anomalies against EMH, some academics have questioned whether EMH is...

This paper quantifies the effects of improving public equity markets on macroeconomic aggregates and welfare. I use an open-economy extension of Angeletos (2007), where entrepreneurs face idiosyncratic productivity risk in privately held firms. They can diversify by investing in publicly traded...

This paper seeks to answer the question: does the stock market work? Is there any link between stock market development and private corporate capital accumulation? It seeks an answer to these questions on the basis of a time-series analysis of Indian data. Our conclusion is in favour of a...

This paper is the first to draw a global picture of worldwide microfinance equity by taking full advantage of daily quoted prices. We revisit previous findings showing that investors should consider microfinance as a self-standing sector. Our results are threefold. First, microfinance has become...