The Palestinian family firm has the advantage of management performance regarding to some financial, marketing and operational aspects compared to the non-family firm, including the rate of return on investments, assets turnover ratio (times a year), inventory turnover ratio, labor productivity...

This research aims to examine the issue of initiating cross-listed of stocks among Euro- Arab stock markets (Mediterranean region). Based on the investigations of the general features of both markets. There are no obstacles from the European stock markets side, Arab companies may be listed if...

Today, we find the world stock market is expanding significantly as expressed by the number of institutions, instruments, products and trading volume; thus tending to be more mature than ever, but risky, changeable, and volatile. In addition, it is working in a different environment and under new...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the world financial markets and institutions have new features, and working in different environments and conditions. The new features have been materialized and emerged in the last two decades. These are of increasing the role of the financial...

This study examined corporate shares' laws related to stock market stability in twenty-five countries that covering developed and emerging economies, civil and common laws, and all geographic regions of the world, including South and Northern America, East, and West Europe, South Asia,...

This study is aimed to discuss forms of linkages that exist between the world stock markets, and to indicate to what extent the present interaction factors are increasing in the last decade. The study analyzed published data, as well as correlation between monthly changes of local price indices...

A new environment has evolved in the international stock markets, as expressed by the occurrence of market crises and high swings of stock prices. The stock prices are supposed to respond to real data under the market efficiency hypothesis. However, in some cases, prices fluctuation are...

This paper aims to explore causes and interpretations of stock market crises and high price volatility existing in practices, as well as in state of arts, in order to articulate and classify such interpretations, in various models. The study found that the causes and comprehensive of stock...

The international stock markets witnessed large swings in prices as a response to reasons other than economic and fundamental values. This includes noise trading and overreaction of traders among other factors, which cause de-stabilizing of the stock market, and may evolve to an international...

This paper explored the new features of emerging stock markets, in order to point out the most associated indicators of increasing stock return volatility, which may lead to instability of emerging markets. The study covers a sample of five geographical areas of emerging economies, including...