Evidence on the relationship between state ownership and performance in China's privatized firms is convex, concave and linear. Hence, the nature of this relationship is not resolved. This study examines this relationship for a larger, more recent sample of 4315 firm year observations of...

In recent years the importance of emerging stock exchanges has been demonstrated by the number of market studies. Although some of these stock exchanges such as those of Korea and Taiwan have been investigated extensively, there is only limited research on others including the Turkish stock...

This study analyses the wealth effects related to Merger and Acquisition (M&A) announcements in the Canadian financial services industry. This study more broadly portrays the Canadian M&A experience in examining a sample of 161 M&A deals from 1997 to 2000. Overall, M&A is related to significant...

This study analyses the wealth effects related to Merger and Acquisition (M&A) announcements in the Canadian financial services industry. This study more broadly portrays the Canadian M&A experience in examining a sample of 161 M&A deals from 1997 to 2000. Overall, M&A is related to significant...

Can broad factors such as natural resources endowment and global commodity markets influence corporate takeovers? This paper theorizes that managers are motivated in mergers and acquisitions to purchase energy reserves and to time the commodity market in the oil and gas industry. We find...

Recently, national economies have become more internationalized because of increased trade and increased cooperation between national governments leading to removal of barriers to free flow of goods and services, and financial, physical and human capital. The relationship between equity markets...

This paper examines the effect of Decree No. 32 of August 11, 1989 on the stock price distributions of an emerging stock market: Istanbul Stock Exchange. After this date the stock market removed the restrictions on foreign investors. It is shown that the mean of stock price changes has stayed...

Value at Risk (VaR) is defined as the worst expected loss under normal market conditions over a specific time interval at a given confidence level. Given the widespread usage of VaR, it becomes increasingly important to study the effects of the portfolio optimization subject to the VaR...