The study analyses the effect of operating and financial risk and other factors such as profitability, liquidity, dividend payout, size and growth on systematic risk for Greek listed firms, after Greece's entrance in the Monetary Union. The study also examines whether the explanatory power of...

This paper examines the role of the world market, the home market, and exchange rate factors in the conditional pricing of a sample of 80 American Depository Receipts (ADRs) from 11 developed markets. Estimations based on a Multivariate GARCH in mean (MGARCH-M) model find that changes over time...

Empirical evidence suggests that U.S. REITs are integrated with common stocks, but not with bonds. The design of the real estate security is likely to impact upon results, however, and it would seem important to analyze the topic of integration for another type of real estate security. Swiss...

This paper examines the determinants of stock returns in a small open economy using an APT framework. The analysis is conducted for the Swiss stock market which has the particularity of including a large proportion of firms that are exposed to foreign economic conditions. Both a statistical and...

This paper examines the role of the world market, the home market, and exchange rate factors in the conditional pricing of a sample of 80 American Depository Receipts (ADRs) from 11 developed markets. Estimations based on a Multivariate GARCH in mean (MGARCH-M) model find that changes over time...