The paper assesses the most recent performance, persistence and riskiness of contrarian portfolios. Evidence from the major world and European market of France shows that such portfolios appear profitable on average, but their performance is not persistent from one holding period to the next;...

The relationship between the announcement of the imposition of capital control and stock returns is examined across a sample of 32 technology firms listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), where capital control has been used as a means to prevent the appreciation of a currency (Thai...

This paper shed light to the existence of momentum and reversal patterns in the 18 industry indexes of DJ Euro Stoxx. The analysis is focus on European market and test a presence structural break in year 2000 (financial services and markets act). We made an analysis of five portfolios over eight...

Using the Markov regime switching unit root testing procedure developed by Hall, Psaradakis, and Sola (1999), we test the presence of periodically collapsing bubbles as postulated by Minsky (1975), in the time series of industry indices. Results indicate that although the industry index series...

In this paper, we examine the behavior of the intra-daily stock returns and close-end stock price manipulation in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). Understanding the price behavior in a given trading day could help investors when they are making their buy and sell decisions. Studies of...

We add to the concerns raised in Ljungqvist, Malloy and Marston, 2009, Rewriting History, Journal of Finance, 64, 1935-1960, about the reliability of the I/B/E/S data provided by Thomson Reuters (TR). Many of the dates reported as earnings announcement dates are not earnings announcement dates;...

The relationship between best execution and market transparency deserves careful consideration in an analysis of MiFID. Best execution has mainly been studied with respect to equity trading, which is generally exchange based and widely regulated also with respect to market transparency. In this...

Existing theoretical literature suggests that floor trading has discernable benefits over electronic trading. In particular floor relationships lead to a reduction in asymmetric information and hence lower spreads. The ability of floor brokers to participate in incoming order flow without...

This paper uses the global systemic shock associated with the outbreak of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 to assess the risk-return relationship in the cross-section of real estate equities internationally. I construct a global COVID-19 risk factor to capture the risk exposure of individual...

The growing threat of cyber breach as become one of the most feared risks corporations around the world are currently dealing with. The dynamic nature of cyber risk, along with evolving global regulations, necessitates that corporate management strategically address cyber risk to minimize...