Following the methodology used by Meshke (2002), we investigate the information content of the media event of ringing the trading bell at the NYSE. Using a sample of 152 firms which had been invited to ring the opening and the closing bell at the NYSE in the year 2004, we fit a standard market...

We test the hypothesis that a market maker in New York faces a more competitive market for cross-listed European firms trading simultaneously in their home market during overlapping trading hours as compared to U.S. firms which trade mainly in New York. A theoretical model of the bid-ask spread...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of some aggregate domes-tic economic forces (i.e., government consumption expenditures and gross Investment; gross private domestic investment and personal consumption expenditures) on the growth of micro firms (businesses with fewer...

This paper uses panel data for the period ranging from 1996 to 2013 to investigate the contribution of US foreign direct investment to economic growth in fourteen Sub-Saharan African Countries. We apply the fixed and random effects model as well as the Generalized Method of Moments model to...

We test the hypothesis that a market maker in New York faces a more competitive market for cross-listed European firms trading simultaneously in their home market during overlapping trading hours as compared to U.S. firms which trade mainly in New York. A sample of seventy two European firms is...