This paper investigates the volatility spillover and the dynamic correlation between crude oil and stock index returns. Monthly returns from January 1997 to December 2010 of the crude oil, oil-importing and oil-exporting stock indices are analysed using three multivariate GARCH specifications...

This study investigates the validity and acceptability of capital asset pricing model (CAPM) in four different stock exchanges of Asian countries. The paired sample t-test is applied to find the difference between actual and expected returns. Results confirm that CAPM accurately predict the...

The paper analyses the earnings management practices of Malaysian firms over the post-crisis period. We propose three dimensions of earnings management, namely earnings aggressiveness, loss avoidance and earnings smoothing, to empirically test a sample of public-listed firms on Bursa Malaysia....

This paper examines the empirical validity of the conditional capital asset pricing model (CAPM) with three betas. Specifically, having modelled the market volatility return like a GARCH (1,1) process and having defined three regimes of volatility (low, neutral and high), we find that most of...

Motivated by the recent developments in accounting regulations, we explore the tendency of countries to converge to IFRS for both public and private companies and present some evidence on the issue from an emerging market. We explore how the legal system -- civil vs. common law -- and the stock...

This paper studies the predictability of returns in the French stock market. It provides an analysis of predictable components of monthly common stock returns. We study a single-beta conditional model and we show that stock market risk premium is variable over time and is important for capturing...

The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse the influence of ownership concentration on stock market liquidity in general, and the adverse selection component of the spread in particular for a panel of Tunisian firms from 2001 to 2007. We document that firms with greater insider ownership...

In this article, we test the presence of financial contagion during the subprime mortgage crisis of 2007. For this purpose, we propose a new procedure for testing the non-linearity of the mechanisms of the shock distribution estimated through a model of long-term interdependence. We apply this...

In the present study the price and volume effects changes to the Madrid Stock Exchange fs in Madrid is presented. Bolsa de Madrid (Madrid Stock Exchange) is the largest and most international of Spain's four regional stock exchanges (the others are located in Barcelona, Valencia, and Bilbao)...

In this paper an attempt is made to examine whether the monetary and financial indicators and behaviour of investors increase the occurrence probability of stock market boom and bust in Tunisia. To this end, we employ the ordered logit model on quarterly data during the period from 1999 Q2 to...