This article analyses the overall ratings given to individual companies listed in the 'Morningstar Stocks 2005', using information provided on the company in that publication. We conduct our analysis using an ordered probit model. We find that the moat size and business risk variables identified...

This study proposes a new approach to the specification of the volatility process for the USD-DEM spot exchange rate. This new specification incorporates long-term asymmetric effects. Although asymmetry in the volatility process is well-documented, existing models have typically modelled the...

To our best knowledge, this study conducts the first analysis of the money market fund investors' response to the major Spanish fund company mergers from 1994 to 2004. By using an event date methodology considering three significant moments in the merger process: (1) Public announcement (2)...

In the event study literature, estimates of security abnormal returns are considered independent whenever securities have different event dates, i.e. in the absence of 'event clustering'. Nonetheless, there are three sources of cross-sectional correlations in estimated abnormal returns even when...

Stock prices should respond only to unpredictable components of economic news ('innovations') in efficient markets. While innovations used in empirical investigations of the economic underpinnings of stock market risk should at least satisfy this basic requirement, this may not guarantee...

We test for asymmetry in the price-volume relation, using a sample of 36 individual stocks listed on the Kuwait stock exchange. For this purpose, we employ an asymmetric autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model that relates trading volume to positive and negative price changes. The results...

This study examines the stock market response to the Buncefield oil depot explosion in 2005. Like previous studies on technological disasters, we find an adverse effect on security prices. However, average abnormal return is only -0.58% for the four oil firms involved in the accident; that is,...

Business choices typically entail tradeoffs between potential growth rates and the risk of failure. This note applies recent results from the theoretical valuation literature to characterize, as a benchmark, the terms of that tradeoff sufficient to leave the expected value of discounted cash...

R&D, particularly basic research, is generally considered as a public good. It provides positive externalities to other firms. This article investigates rival firms' stock-price responses to an increase in the R&D expenditures of a firm. Examining firms in the pharmaceutical industry, we found...

This study examines the determinants of the forward exchange rate of the euro in the context of the 'modern approach' for give currency combinations. The co-integration analysis suggests that speculation has played a minor role and arbitrage played a major role in determining the forward...