Many studies reveal the positive impact of practices use on overall project performance, resulting in a consensus opinion in the industry that implementation of certain practices leads to improvement; yet there have been no definitive studies reporting in a quantitative manner, the relative...

This paper analyses the impact of a move from fractional to decimal pricing in the UK Long Gilt futures market, and thus offers a unique insight to tick size reduction and decimalization in a derivatives market setting. The reduced tick size leads to an increase in price clustering. The...

This paper applies an established bid-ask spread decomposition model to the inter-dealer spot foreign exchange market. In addition, the paper presents and tests a modified decomposition model which is specifically adapted to the features of order-driven markets and which is found to produce more...

<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>This paper examines the relationship between returns and dividend yield in the UK stock market, and introduces earnings-related data to the asset pricing model in the form of payout ratio. The latter has a considerable effect upon the inferences which would otherwise be drawn from a...