Past research in the US indicates that stock prices and earnings per share are related. Evidence pertaining to this relationship in other countries is not as extensive. This paper extends two recent studies focusing on Germany, and provides additional information concerning the important...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate who causes post-announcement drift and whether this drift is observed for various types of news announcements. Design/methodology/approach – Using Finnish share ownership data, the authors examine the trading behavior of foreign and domestic investors...

We examine how financial networks influence asset prices and trading performance. Consistent with theoretical studies on the role of communication networks in information dissemination, we posit that global financial institutions, having more extensive and strategic financial networks, can more...

This paper investigates alternative explanations of long-term comovements among the prices of agricultural commodity futures contracts. A long-term interdependency of these prices can exist because of common economic fundamentals or herd behaviour by market participants. An analysis of Tokyo...

In this paper we model six major foreign stock index returns as conditionally heteroscedastic processes with time dependent autocorrelation. The findings point to a significant inverse relationship between volatility and autocorrelation. This is in agreement with previous findings for the US...

Using data from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, this paper investigates the impact of an increase in trading hours (from two to three on 15 January 1990) on the variance of stock returns. The results confirm those of most earlier studies that report that trading time volatility is significantly...

This paper uses multivariate Hawkes processes to model the transactions behavior of the U.S. stock market as proxied by the 30 Dow Jones Industrial Average stocks before, during and after the May 6, 2010 flash crash, which lasted 36 minutes. The basis for our analysis is the excitation matrix,...