The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revoked the uptick rule in July 2007. The revocation of the uptick rule provides us with a unique setting to investigate the impact of short-sale constraints on various short-selling strategies in a controlled environment. It shows that contrarian...

Based on the rational that some industry groups are more closely linked to the business cycle than others, we re-examined a previous analysis on the long-term relationship between stock return dispersion by industry and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which evaluated data until 1987 by extending...

A team of MTSU's economics and finance faculty members is researching the trend in executive compensation measured as a percent of corporate profits.

We examine insider trading around open-market share repurchases and find that insiders trade passively in 3 months prior to repurchase announcements and in up to 12 months following the announcements. Furthermore, both pre-announcement and post-announcement abnormal insider trading is...

Dual economy, large unemployment, a fixed number of skilled workers, perfect capital mobility, migrant labor force working in South African gold mines, and a cycle of poverty characterize Lesotho. This paper develops a general equilibrium model for Lesotho specifying these absorbing economic...

This study investigates the relationship between trade openness and economic growth for Japan and South Korea employing data, estimation technique, model specification, and measures of openness that differ from earlier related works. In contrast to earlier related works this study uses...

The Security and Exchange Commission revoked the uptick rule in July 2007. The revocation of the uptick rule provides us with a unique setting to investigate the impact of short-sale constraints on various short-selling strategies in a controlled environment. Comparing short-selling behaviors...

This article investigates the impact of short sale constraints on stock returns in a powerful setting in which the uptick rule on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was suspended for a given set of stocks (pilot stocks) by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2005. Comparing future...