The aviation industry has been hard hit in recent years. While there are numerous factors that have contributed to the industry's dilemma, rising and volatile insurance premiums - particularly after the events of 9/11 - have posed a particular problem for many airline managers. Despite a general...

Recently, the interests in the performance of family firms in the capital market are on the rise. However studies on long-term performance give us little information about the performance of family firms in the initial public offering (IPO) markets. Building on agency theory, we investigated the...

Empirical evidences regarding the association of idiosyncratic volatility and stock returns are inconsistent with the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) which implies that idiosyncratic risk should not be priced because it would be fully eliminated through diversification. Using estimated-EGARCH...

This study examines commonality in liquidity of the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) using a limited order book data from 1996 to 2003. Strong evidence is found for market-wide commonality in liquidity, which prevails across several liquidity measurements. Industry-wide commonality is found to...

Many previous studies of international markets have attempted to measure integration by correlations among broad stock market indexes. Yet such correlations have been found to poorly mimic other measures of integration. We show that a simple correlation between two stock markets is likely to be...

We examine the relationship between IPO underpricing and litigation risk in an international setting using a sample of 13,759 firms that went public across 40 countries between 1991 and 2011. While the majority of single-country studies do not find support for the lawsuit avoidance hypothesis,...

Legal liability claims against airlines and airplane manufacturers following an aviation disaster are determined through a myriad of international treaties, intercarrier agreements, and federal and state laws. Which law applies in a specific situation depends on various circumstances surrounding...

Using data for 2,391 non-financial firm commitment initial public offerings (IPOs) between January 1996 and December 2002, we examine the relation between pre-IPO insider ownership and underpricing for high-tech and low-tech IPOs. Contrary to the conventional wisdom that suggests that firms in...

The extant literature on initial public offerings (IPOs) generally assumes that a high degree of pre-IPO leverage serves as a positive signal of firm quality as it forces a firm's managers to adhere to tough budget constraints. Our paper questions the validity of this assumption when it is...