Purpose – Some labor supply curves exhibit inflection points at which they bend backward or fall forward; thus, some workers alternate between increasing and decreasing their labor hours as wages increase. No consensus has yet been reached on the underlying motive for such behavioral...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine whether corporate investment in real fixed assets in hot issue markets leads to higher income to shareholders than that in other equity market conditions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors address the research question in two steps:...

Purpose – This paper investigates whether mean reversion holds for a panel of 16 OECD stock price indices for the period 1970 to 2011. Design/methodology/approach – We employ seemingly unrelated regression (SUR)-based linear and non-linear unit root tests which are not only able to exploit...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the investment performance of pension funds in the UK using the three standard performance measurement models, the capital asset pricing model (CAPM), Fama-French model and the Carhart model. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the CAPS-Mellon...

Purpose – Algorithmic trading attempts to reduce trading costs by selecting optimal trade execution and scheduling algorithms. Whilst many common approaches only consider the bid-ask spread when measuring market impact, the authors aim to analyse the detailed limit order book data, which has...

Purpose – The paper aims to empirically examine the forecasting ability of US-based world mutual funds during the 2001-2007 time period. Design/methodology/approach – World mutual funds are treated as portfolios composed of two sets of securities, i.e. domestic and foreign and two...

Purpose – The authors aim to investigate the cointegrating relationship of the government bond yields, driven by the common money factors in European Monetary Union (EMU). Design/methodology/approach – By adopting a dynamic ARDL transformation, the paper provides short-/long-term estimates...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to assess the effect of securitization on US bank lending and monetary policy transmission. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a sample of 174 US commercial banks from 2001 to 2008 and regress the ratio of total loans per total assets on...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to perform an analysis of potential benefits from usage of the futures markets for the farmers. The national commodity exchanges were established in India in the year 2003-2004. Though there has been a spectacular growth in trading volumes in these...

Despite vast majority corporate governance and firm performance literature in recent years, there is none on Botswana's corporate sector. This study investigates the relationship between ownership structure, board characteristics and financial performance to determine the role of corporate...