We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of the 2,713 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India under three regulatory regimes during the period 1990-2004. We distinguish between two competing hypotheses regarding group affiliation and a firm's initial stock market...

We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of the 2,713 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India under three regulatory regimes during the period 1990-2004. We distinguish between two competing hypotheses regarding group affiliation and a firm's initial stock market...

We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of the 2,713 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India under three regulatory regimes during the period 1990-2004. We distinguish between two competing hypotheses regarding group affiliation and a firm's initial stock market...

We extend the widely used Merton (1981) market-timing model with a more realistic assumption on the information structure of the fund manager. Using a theoretically derived logistic smooth transition market (LSTM) model that incorporates duration dependence of market conditions in the transition...

The existing two-regime asset pricing models do not reach a consensus, neither in the definition of bull and bear market conditions nor in modelling the non-stationarity of the beta. We propose a new logistic smooth transition regression model to address the beta non-stationarity issue. Using...

Using a translog cost function, we examine the extent to which economies of scale exist for retail superannuation funds in Australia for 1999 and 2000. We find that the average cost elasticity for Australian retail superannuation funds is equal to 1.0. This means that percentages cost increases...

Traditional time series or cross-sectional regression procedures yield mixed evidence on maintained hypotheses about the determinants of international equity returns. This paper re-examines how three theory-suggested factors affect equity returns and how the test results may differ between...