In a comprehensive study of all shipping mergers and acquisitions since 1984 we document that the shareholders of both acquirer and target realize average abnormal gains of 1.2% and 3.3% respectively and both parties gain more from diversifying than focus-increasing deals. We find that acquirers...

Whether corporate acquisitions create or destroy value for shareholders is still an unresolved issue. One type of corporate acquisition is made when another firm carries out a divestiture. Evidence on the wealth effects of such partial acquisitions is limited to a few US studies. This study...

Research Question- Does internet finance, measured by P2P lending and third-party payment, affect bank profitability? Motivation- Prior studies have focused on the adoption, development, determinants, acceptance, risks and customer satisfaction using data from developed markets, while the impact...

In this paper we try to model the adoption pattern of mobile telecommunication services into the Greek market for the period from 1993 to 2005. Two separate sigmoid curves, the Gompertz and the Logistic, are fitted to the observed number of subscribers by means of non-linear least squares. The...

This paper examines the ex-dividend price and trading volume behaviour in the Greek stock market. The examined period spans over the period 2000-2004. We use both the standard event study methodology and the regression analysis in order to assess the ex-dividend stock price anomaly. We find that...

On June 20, 2014 the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) issued the “Guidance on the pilot implementation of employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) by listed companies” which marked a new era of the employee ownership of Chinese listed companies. The purpose of the “Guidance” was...

This study investigates the market reaction to cash dividend announcements for the period 2000-2004 employing data from the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). In particular, the paper examines both the stock price and trading volume response to dividend distribution announcements. Dividend...

This study investigates the stock market reaction of the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE) to cash dividend announcements for the period 2000-2004. In particular, the paper examines both the stock price and trading volume response to company announcements about dividend distributions. The dividend...

Our study examines the presence of the day-of-the-week effect anomaly in the Central and Eastern European stock markets. We consider the Romanian, Hungarian, Latvian, Czech, Russian, Slovakian, Slovenian and Polish stock markets during the period September 22, 1997 to March 29, 2002. Our results...