This paper examines the determinants of the going public decision of the Indian companies. A probit regression model is used to analyze the influence of fundamental financial data of Indian companies on their going public decision. The size, profitability, age and leverage emerged as the...

This paper examines the stock market reaction to annual earnings information releases using data on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Using the event study method, the speed of reaction of the market to annual earnings information releases for a sample of 16 firms listed on the exchange is tested....

The present paper attempts to assess whether at all and in what ways the development of alternative capital markets may help an additional mobilisation of the given economy's domestic financial resources, and, consequently, contribute significantly to economic development. Against the...

The Warsaw Stock Exchange is one of Europe’s largest exchanges by the number of IPOs, although it retains features of a market in post-transition countries, including a relatively small size, shallowness and a weak institutional framework. In this study, we use a large dataset to explore...

In this paper we empirically test the dependence of the Russian stock market on the world stock market, world oil prices and Russian political and economic news during the period 2001-2010. We find that oil prices are not significant after 2006, the Japan stock index is significant over the...

We detected rational bubbles in 22 emerging stockmarkets using both standard and threshold cointegration. Eighteen stockmarkets experienced explosive bubbles (and some of them periodically collapsing bubbles as well). The remaining four markets experienced periodically collapsing bubbles only.

The main focus of this paper is to examine the effect of the recent global financial crisis on emerging countries’ borrowing costs by implementing a panel data analysis. We propose an empirical assessment over the period 2006-2010 for seven selected emerging countries including Turkey. It is...

This study aimed to clarify the value of the bias beta stocks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and make corrections to the bias value using Scholes and Williams, Dimson, and Fowler and Rorke. Results of this study indicate that the stock beta is the value of bias, besides the results...

This study aimed to clarify the value of the bias beta stocks listed on the Indonesia Stock Exchange and make corrections to the bias value using Scholes and Williams, Dimson, and Fowler and Rorke. Results of this study indicate that the stock beta is the value of bias, besides the results...

This paper studies excess market returns in the relatively understudied nancial markets of nine Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries within the context of three variants of the Capital Asset Pricing Model: the static international CAPM; the constant-parameter intertemporal CAPM; and...