... of the Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (PIIGS economies) markets. This paper also seeks to investigate that “If the time series is not martingale, then what else?” Design/methodology/approach Monte Carlo experiments have been undertaken to test the small sample properties of automatic variance...

... can be contacted at: spapado@uom.gr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Banking Business performance Greece Italy Spain Altunbas et al. (2001a, b) extended the established literature by modelling the cost characteristics of banking markets by applying the flexible...

... listed on the ASE around contemporaneous dividend and earnings announcement dates is examined. Apostolos Dasilas can be contacted at: tdasilas@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Greece Stock exchanges Dividends Earnings per share There is a surfeit of empirical...

.../methodology/approach The paper uses both a questionnaire survey and a series of interviews to examine the practice of investment management in terms of stock market forecasting and stock valuation. The respondents consist of six different groups of investors, drawn from across Greece, namely: official...