Purpose: This study is a pioneer in the academic literature to investigate the relationship between Valentine’s Day and stock market returns of major economies around the world. Design/methodology/approach: Specific control variables for Valentine's Day are introduced to eliminate the...

Using daily open-to-close and close-to-open stock prices, this paper examines whether there are any lead-lag relationships between the Tokyo Stock Exchange and the other G7 stock markets. In particular, this paper analyzes whether the movements of other markets in the preceding trading session...

This article explores the potential existence of comovements between the stock prices in Mainland China and Hong Kong. The cointegration test shows that the prices of a substantial number of A shares and H shares have started to cointegrate with each other after the launch of the Closer Economic...

The Alchian-Allen (1964) effect states that when a fixed per-unit cost is added to two substitutes, the more expensive (higher quality) one becomes relatively cheaper, and, thus, its consumption will increase. When applied to trade in vertically-differentiated goods, the importing regions demand...

This paper examines the impacts of profitability, stock price performance and growth opportunity on the capital structure of firms in Thailand. The methodology of Kayhan and Titman (2007) is applied to model the dynamics of debt ratios. The results suggest that the leverage ratios of Thai firms...

Groenewold et al. (2004) documented that the Chinese stock market is inefficient. In this paper, we revisit the efficiency problem of the Chinese stock market using time-series model based trading rules. Our paper distinguishes itself from previous studies in several aspects. First, while...

This paper examines the impact of profitability, stock price performance and growth opportunity on the capital structure of firms in Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. In contrast to Kayhan and Titman (2007), it is found that firms in these three Chinese-dominated economies strongly prefer debt to...

Evidence from existing studies on the impact of minimum wage on firm profitability and shareholder wealth are inconsistent. One of the explanations is the different natures of event studied. This paper is motivated to offer evidence for the relationship of minimum wage and shareholder wealth...

The causality between the real estate and stock markets of China remains a mystery in the literature. This paper investigates the non-linear causal relationship between real estate property and stock returns in China from the perspective of conditional quantiles. The results of the quantile...

Tse and Chan (2003) investigated the relationship between property sales price and the value of commuting time without accounting for the fact that property sales price is subject to the inherent limitation of containing speculative elements. A better measure to use for such a study would be the...