The present study provides a comprehensive analysis of the short-run underpricing of initial public offerings (IPO) in Bangladesh and attempts to identify the factors which contribute to such underpricing in this heavily regulated underwriting market. Using a sample of 90 IPOs issued during the...

This study examines if journalists are affected by attention stimuli similar to that of individual investors. Applying logistic regression technique, we find that journalists focus on attention grabbing stocks when publishing their buy and sell recommendations. Thereby, journalists intensify the...

Stock returns in China exhibit significant co-movement with provincial return indices after controlling for the industry effect, consistent with local co-movement findings in the United States. The magnitude of such co-movement increases with participation in trading by local investors. Trading...

A topical issue in financial economics is the development of a stochastic dynamic model for bank behaviour. Under the assumption that the loan market is imperfectly competitive, we investigate the evolution of banking items such as loans, provisions for loan losses and deposit withdrawals,...

In this article the restrictions imposed on excess returns by a dynamic optimization model are tested on stock market data from the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSE), from which ten size-portfolios have been formed. The model implies that all excess returns should move proportionately if assets are...

This note provides some evidence of the sensitivity of firm survival duration dependence to time aggregation, when durations are Weibull distributed. The results indicate that estimates of duration dependence are always positively biased: This bias increases with the width of time aggregation...

This article examines the transmission of shocks among different sectors of the health care industry using financial market data in an excess-return model. As suggested by the nature of the reimbursement schemes, we find a significant linkage between the payor and product sectors. A significant...

We study a modification of an American option such that the option holder can exercise the option early before the expiration, and he or she can revert later this decision to exercise a number of times. This feature gives additional flexibility and risk protection for the option holder. We found...

The econometric analysis of interest rate pass-through is examined. It is noted a number of recent studies have employed a procedure that underestimates the extent of interest rate pass-through. This issue is highlighted via an analysis of pass-through from the U.S. Federal Funds rate to the...

The investment decisions of individuals are influenced by their perception of risk. The article investigates from an empirical viewpoint the role of risk aversion and of local government as a provider of public services in shaping the decisions of individuals to subscribe to private pension...