The present study examines the impact of cultural and religious festivals on the trading behavior of a sample of stocks listed on the five emerging Asian markets: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan, over the years 1991-2011. I investigate the festivals' impact on stock returns...

Over the past years there has been increasing interest in the informational importance of the differences between accounting or book income and taxable income. This subject, known as book-tax differences (BTDs), involves various aspects, mainly the motives for these differences, the potential...

In this paper, we investigate both the market reaction soon after the accident and the market reaction when the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund Act was passed and signed into law. TEPCO, the damaged electric power company's stock price lost the largest consecutively for direct damage...

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market during the financial crisis; in countries that have more credit provided by...

Global asset pricing models have failed to capture the cross section of country equity returns. Emerging markets display robust positive pricing errors and country-level characteristics play a role in pricing international equities. This paper offers a risk-based explanation for such asset...

This paper will examine seasonal effect anomalies in emerging stock markets using monthly returns in a number of emerging stock markets from Africa and Asia. In addition, the paper will try to report an explanation for this phenomenon in case that it occurs. This study utilizes methodologies...

This paper examines the efficiency in pricing securities as well as the relation between exchange rate and dynamics of equity returns in a number of emerging stock markets from Africa and Asia,. This study utilizes methodologies based on Single variance ratio test of Lo and Mackinlay (1988),...

This event study investigates the impact of the Japanese nuclear disaster in Fukushima-Daiichi on the daily stock prices of French, German, Japanese, and U.S. nuclear utility and alternative energy firms. Hypotheses regarding the (cumulative) abnormal returns based on a three-factor model are...

This paper examines unique cultural features associated with the Japanese calendar known as rokuyo, which classifies days into six categories of varying levels of favorable/unfavorable sentiment days. Prior to the internationalization of Japanese financial markets in the early 1980s, rokuyo has...

We analyze and compare the underpricing and buy-and-hold abnormal returns of depositary receipt equity offerings with preceding domestic seasoned equity offerings of the same firms to identify differences and motivations for cross-listings and domestic equity offerings free of any matching bias....