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The effect of stock liquidity on stock returns is well documented in the developed capital markets, while similar …-dependent variance of liquidity premium in the Polish stock market. The Polish capital market may serve as a benchmark for other emerging … Polish stock market exists stock liquidity premium, which is statistically significant, but constitutes only a small fraction …
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This study examines the effects of female leadership, at both board-level and individual-level, on the corporate value of UK FTSE100 stocks. United Kingdom is a valuable sample for this research as the UK governance sets the goal that at least a third of UK boardroom positions should be held by...
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The present paper studies dependencies between European stock markets when returns are unusually large, using daily data on stock market indices for Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Italy from 1973 to 2001. Dependency is measured by the conditional probability of an...
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In this new era of economic growth, the exceptional increase in the crude oil prices is one of the significant developments that affecting the global economy. Crude oil is an important raw material used for manufacturing many goods, so that an extraordinary increase in the price of oil is bound...
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The study investigates the information content of insider trading transactions employing different signal definitions. Using directors' open market dealings during the period 1999-2000 for FTSE100 companies and new extensions of the event study methodology, the evidence suggests directors have,...
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The period of 2010-2012 was characterized by information uncertainty and market volatility. Information uncertainty is a critical characteristic of financial market behavior. The ability to absorb and distribute information is central to financial market efficiency. Uncertain corporate earnings...
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The extended Friday the 13th Effect is a calendar anomaly consisting in abnormal stock returns that occur in a time interval that starts some trading days before the supposed unlucky day of Friday the 13th and it ends some trading days after. This paper approaches the presence of such patterns...
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Previous work examined the long-run profitability of strategies mimicking the trades of company directors in the shares of their own company, as a way of testing for strong-form market efficiency. However, the evidence regarding returns during the month containing the insider trade was...
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Since their discovery, many calendar anomalies experienced different types of changes. This paper explores the possibility of enlargement of the time interval specific to the January Effect on London Stock Exchange. We investigate the abnormal returns presence on an extended time interval that...
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market capitalization and are free of information effects. Our main results are asymmetric price and liquidity responses … smaller-cap to a larger-cap FTSE index experience a permanent increase in stock price accompanied by improvements in liquidity … accompanied by declines in liquidity. In contrast, firms added to the FTSE SmallCap index that were not previously in FTSE indexes …
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