In this time of ever increasing relationships between countries within an expanding global economy, firms have to deal with decisions that extend beyond their national borders. One of their most important decisions deals with which market(s) to participate in, including capital markets. There is...

In March of 2000 the New York Stock Exchange proposed a merger with The Nasdaq Stock Market. Applying a qualitative assessment to the proposed merger from the organizations' perspective it is argued that the merger would be favorable for both organizations. Applying a quantitative assessment to...

This research aim is to prove there a change in abnormal returns around the announcement date of the cum date dividend date and price changes around the announcement date. The population studied is the company announced a dividend for the period 2007-2012, consists of 15 companies that...

Volatility is essential to consider uncertainty surrounding investments in financial assets. For this reason, financial industry regulators, mutual fund managers, individual and institutional investors, and policymakers are concerned about volatility. Against this background, this paper...

This study aims to examine the validity of Market Timing Theory (MTT) in the Indonesian context. The essence of MTT is when the market price of a company's stock is overvalued, the firms will take equity financing and debt financing for undervalued condition. The motivations of this study are to...

Using the Stochastic Dominance (SD) approach, this paper revisits the day-of-the-week effect for a developing market, the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). SD results provide different results independent of distribution assumptions. The results indicate that Monday and Tuesday cannot be dominated...

Understanding the pattern of stock market volatility is important to investors as well as for investment policy. Volatility is directly associated with risks and returns, higher the volatility the more financial market is unstable. The volatility of the Zimbabwean stock market is modeled using...

Purpose - This paper investigates whether the macroeconomic factors affect the firm stock returns volatility differently depending on their location in different sectors. For this purpose, daily financial time-series data for 683 firms located in nine US sectors for the period of 2000 to 2017...

We study trends and drivers of long-run stock market growth in 17 advanced economies. Between 1870 and the 1980s, stock market capitalization grew in line with GDP. But over subsequent decades, an unprecedented expansion saw market cap to GDP ratios triple and remain persistently high. While...