Recent studies have documented the growing economic and financial integration between countries. Among other things, this has led to the argument that greater integration results in higher bilateral correlations between returns on national stock markets. This study endeavours to link the two...

In this paper, an alternative method of estimating the systematic risk for Canadian stocks is presented and empirically investigated. The method proposed is applied to a set of data impacted by censoring - the presence of zero returns, which occurs in extreme cases of thin trading. The approach...

The paper presents an investigation of the equity beta risk of 23 Australian industry portfolios over the period 1974 to 1992. A comparison of domestic and international market model betas, favours the domestic risk measures, although the international counterparts are generally statistically...

The primary objective of this paper is to assess the affect of data 'censoring' on asset pricing tests. This is achieved by modifying tests to incorporate a 'selectivity bias' correction factor in a Gibbons (Journal of Financial Economics, 10, pp. 3-27, 1982) multivariate framework. The sample...

This study uses a country beta market model and a multivariate GARCH conditional beta model to examine if German reunification has impacted upon country returns, across different nations. The results suggest a stronger reaction in European countries particularly those with closer economic links....

The finance literature is replete with studies using the market model (MM) and the quadratic market model (QMM) as the return generating model. An alternative model, using the quadratic market model framework, was adopted by Barone-Adesi (1985) to test a two factor APT model related to the Three...

The transfer of information is analysed within two distinct markets in the same country, specifically, the Chinese stock markets. The presence of autocorrelation and cross correlation in the four main stock indices is examined. The results for stock index data find spillovers in both directions...

A finding of the Australian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) literature is that the time from prospectus registration to listing is related to the level of informed demand. This makes the understanding of time to listing an important matter. This study analyses the time to listing for 834 IPOs in...

This paper analyses the board composition of Australian initial public offerings (IPOs) over the period 1994 to 1997. The recent management literature identifies a wide range of stakeholders beyond the traditional shareholders. Evan and Freeman, and Jones and Goldberg suggest that the importance...

Given that the efficiency of the Chinese stock markets was empirically examined in extant literature using statistical tests that are designed to uncover linear correlations of price changes, the obtained statistical inferences of efficiency/inefficiency are on very shaky grounds as highlighted...