Purpose This paper aims to examine the impact of stock market liberalization on efficiency of the stock markets in Latin America. Design/methodology/approach Daily stock indices from Latin American countries, including Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, are used in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the degree of dependence and extreme correlation (i.e. tail dependence) among US industry sectors. Design/methodology/approach – This paper makes use of both conventional measures of dependence (the Pearson’s correlation coefficient,...

Purpose This paper aims to examine the effects of adding non-tradable sector and trade in intermediate goods sector and their impact on the “Backus-Smith” (BS) puzzle and the features of the non-tradable output. Conventional international real business cycle models show that the real...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate Chinese bull and bear markets. The Chinese stock market has experienced a long period of bear cycle from early 2000 until 2006, and then it fluctuated greatly until 2010. However, the cyclical behaviour of stock markets during this period is less well...

Purpose There has been an increased interest in the role of the financial sector and institutional quality in the development process. Design/methodology/approach This paper addresses the relationship between corruption and financial sector development by constructing a Schumpeterian endogenous...

Purpose – This paper aims to review the relevant literature on mergers and acquisitions in an attempt to provide a comprehensive account of what we know about mergers and which parts of the puzzle are still incomplete. Design/methodology/approach – This literature review consists of three...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate how a prospective buyer’s optimal home-size purchase can be determined by means of a stochastic-dominance (SD) analysis of the historical data of Hong Kong. Design/methodology/approach By means of SD analysis, the paper uses monthly property yields in...

Purpose This paper explores the possibilities for policy coordination in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as well as real effective exchange rate (REER) stability as a prerequisite towards sensible monetary integration. The underlying hypothesis goes with the assertion that...

Purpose Value at risk (VaR) is a market risk measure widely used by risk managers and market regulatory authorities, and various methods are proposed in the literature for its estimation. However, limited studies discuss its distribution or its confidence intervals. The purpose of this paper is...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to uncover the essence of insider trading, explain why insider trading law is ineffective and provide implications of the effectiveness of the law. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper offers three propositions. The first two are based on a...