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The carbon tax is a major instrument for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warning. Y et its adoption has been limited because of concerns over its effects on economic growth, income distribution, and international competitiveness. The paper shows that policymakers con minimize...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to document the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient specialization, investment, and productivity growth in the migrants’ home-countries. Particular attention is...
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providing finance to other firms by granting trade credit to customers; and test some theories about the motives of small and … medium‐sized firms in extending such trade credit. Design/methodology/approach – The Generalised Method of Moments is applied … trade credit. Findings – The study finds that: firms with greater access to financial markets can serve as a credit channel …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present new empirical evidence on global trends in equity‐related transaction costs and trading volume, as well as to highlight recent research in international market microstructure. Design/methodology/approach – Estimates of brokerage...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the change in speed of dissemination of order flow information on stock volatility of return in 79 traded companies at the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange (CASE). Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines the interaction of...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate what is denoted as episodes of concentrated short‐selling activity, or consecutive days of abnormal short‐sale activity in a particular stock. The motivation to do so is two fold. First, US regulators and regulators in other countries...
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transactions in the NYSE opening batch trade and NASDAQ opening cross are informative of future returns. Findings – It is found … that a stock's opening‐trade short volume is predictive of its short volume for the rest of trading day, positively related … to its previous‐day price change, and positively related to its overnight price change at the opening trade on option …
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Purpose – Research draws the distinction between noise traders and informed traders. Research also documents market biases in equity returns due to cloud cover, a non‐informational (noise) event, showing that returns decrease on cloudy days. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the...
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) has significantly reduced post the structural reforms at the daily as well as intra‐day intervals across trade, as well as …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent of the trade integration of Thailand with the Mekong … region in comparison with its trade integration with the other major partners (advanced ASEAN, China, India, Japan, and the … USA). Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts the gravity trade model as an analytical framework, for the period …
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