The development of accounting, auditing and capital markets in China were an integral component of China's economic reforms; auditing was regarded as being critically important to achieving the desired policy objective of delivering a market economy (Yang and Yang, 1998). This article examines...

A priori, we argue that the period under study is characterised by two distinct regimes. Initially, Non-executive director appointments take place within a regulationist context. In the latter period such board changes occur in a Laissez-faire environment. The empirical analysis suggests that...

This study applies statistical tools, derived from chaos theory, to examine the behaviour of the ISEQ equity index on the Dublin Stock Exchange. Evidence that the ISEQ index series does not behave as a realization of a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variables (IID) is...

This paper examines the response of securityprices to the share dealings by directors ofsmall capitalised firms in the United Kingdomand tests as to whether the share dealingscontain information with regard to the firm'sfuture financial performance. The results ofthe study indicate that...

There is a plethora of empirical evidence testing theories which have been proposed to explain dividend policies and assessments of managerial opinions for firms listed on developed markets’ stock exchanges. In contrast, the evidence for emerging markets is limited. We investigate the...

Purpose – While existing UK studies conduct a cross-sectional analysis, this paper seeks to argue that the ratio of Executive Directors to non-executive director (NED) on the boards of UK firms, coupled with a gradual appointment process, motivated by firms’ desire to comply with the...

This paper investigates if benchmark African equity indices exhibit the stylized facts reported for financial time series returns. The returns distributions of the Africa All-Share, Large, Medium and Small Company Indices were found to be leptokurtotic, had fat-tails, over time experienced...