... 500 Index composition Corporate debt Finance Financial markets G31 G14 A firm’s inclusion or removal from a major stock market index, such as the S&P 500, is a significant event from both corporate and investment perspectives. Multiple studies have discovered various effects...

... impact on the geographical distribution of VC. Our research highlights creative culture as a new local factor that affects VC distribution among USA counties. Financial markets Geodemographics Private companies How do urbanization and local creative culture affect the flow of venture capital...

...Parvathy S. Nair; Atul Shiva Purpose The study explored various dimensions of overconfidence bias (OB) among retail investors in Indian financial markets. Further, these dimensions were validated through formative assessments for OB. Design/methodology/approach The study applied exploratory...

... significance to shed light on an important aspect of global financial markets. Gylfi Magnusson can be contacted at: gylfimag@hi.is 20 12 2019 05 03 2020 27 05 2020 13 08 2020 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper examines cumulative abnormal returns around CEO announcements from 1992 through 2016 using a modified event study methodology. This evidence shown examines market reactions over time and by firm size. Findings Financial markets react more favorably to male CEO...

... can engage in real-life shareholder advocacy via socially responsible investing. These studies imply that quantitative strategies should be combined with other strategies to help students make investment decisions. Students Financial markets Financial investment Financial performance...

... of financial market instability, they can be linked to the emergence of the shadow-banking sector according to Pozsar (2008) . The regulations that limited the investment banking activities of traditional banks led to the growth of the market-based financial intermediary sector. This segment of the industry...

... generated much interest among financial market players, studies are lacking on how to predict Sukuk defaults and whether Sukuk has the same risk profile compared to conventional bonds. Nafis Alam can be contacted at: n.alam@henley.edu.my 21 05 2018 21 05 2018 21 05 2018 ©...

... and frontier markets. The seven countries are Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, and South Africa. The choice of the seven countries was based on data availability and the banks in these countries seem to be greatly involved in their financial markets. The data range is from 1997 to 2009. We also...

... called the January effect) on Super Bowl results. Thomas H. Thompson can be contacted at: thomas.thompson@uta.edu 05 05 2016 12 09 2016 20 09 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Financial markets Statistics...

... between two different tracking error series; and third, stock replacement operations due to, for example, index adjustments in the underlying benchmark. Financial markets Fund management Investment funds Assets management Over the past few years, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have...

... market returns, and E[ε _j,t ε _m,t∣Z _t−1] is the conditional covariance of the world market with portfolio j. Then this equation can be rewritten as: Financial markets...

... characteristics during PMPPs, normal market conditions (NMPPs) and HMPPs. Financial markets Portfolio investment Investments Diversification has long been an integral part of portfolio management. The cornerstone of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) is Markowitz’ (1952, 1959) seminal work...

... in affecting the TSE. Financial markets Politics Extraordinary socio-political events and revolutionary movements, such as those occurring in Tunisia over the year 2011, cannot be easily predicted by political scientists (Howard and Walters, 2014). The Tunisian Revolution stands as a major...

... and supervision of CEO compensation. Originality/value – Being a small and open financial market with many small- and medium-sized listed companies, New Zealand differs from large economies such as the UK and the USA in the sense that CEOs in New Zealand tend to be closely connected to each other...

... these two factors share some common trends. Finance Financial markets Stock markets Stock returns In line with many of the studies above, we will assume in this paper that the mean equation has stock returns as a function of a constant, lags of its own and a shock, with the focus moving...

... short selling and accounting restatements. Dr Ivelina Pavlova can be contacted at: pavlova@uhcl.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Financial statements Financial markets Fails-to-deliver Naked short selling Accounting restatements Short selling has been...

.... Tsung-Kang Chen can be contacted at: vocterchen@mail.fju.edu.tw © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014 Financial markets Risk Real estate Information Returns The effects of information asymmetry on asset returns are one of the most important research areas in financial economics...

... and Wang's model and suggest that the beta instability drives this model. Mona Soufian can be contacted at: mona.soufian@northumbria.ac.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Financial markets Capital asset pricing model Financial risk Beta instability Premium beta and conditional...

... greater return than its index. Financial markets Investment Financial forecasting Financial investment Investment analysis Investment funds […] are typically designed to achieve their stated objectives on a daily basis. Due to the effects of compounding, their performance over long...