... and financial crisis of 2007/2008. M. Kabir Hassan can be contacted at: mhassan@uno.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Venture capital Portfolio size Portfolio investment There was extraordinary growth throughout the 1990s in venture capital investments; from $4.3 billion...

... investors hold too high a share of their wealth in domestic securities. Capital markets Economic equilibrium Hedging Portfolio investment Consumption hedging Home‐country bias Benchmark portfolio Tracking portfolio Security market line Modelling Efforts to explain this empirical...

... Limited 2010 Data analysis Portfolio investment Value analysis Stocks Finland Although there is ample evidence of a value premium in stock returns all over the world (Bird and Whitaker, 2003 ; Dimson et al., 2003 ; Chan and Lakonishok, 2004 ; Fama and French, 2006...

...] . Determinants Credit management Financial risk Portfolio investment Not only is the literature on the determinants of credit spread changes not extensive but most of the published studies examine the determinants for individual bonds. Except for the study by Pedrosa and Roll (1998) , which examines...

... in order to assess the informational efficiency of these markets, using the efficient market hypothesis (EMH; Fama, 1970) as a criterion. Equity capital Financial markets Financial marketing Africa Portfolio investment Meanwhile, the most liquid markets in the world all have turnover...

... in previous theoretical treatments of divergence of opinions in capital markets. Jacques A. Schnabel can be contacted at: jschnabel@wlu.ca © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Capital asset pricing model Portfolio investment Investors Financial risk The impact of divergence...