The survey of community banks revealed that many Tenth District community bankers are concerned about their banks' ability to compete and succeed in the future. In light of these concerns, the authors looked at recent performance trends to see how District community banks have done and to...

This paper provides further evidence of the holiday effect in stock returns and additional insight into the effect. This paper reports abnormally high returns on the trading day before holidays in all three of the major stock markets in the U.S.: the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ. The holiday effect is...

This paper analyzes the information effect of involuntary delisting and the possibility of informed trading in the Korean stock market. We find that the abnormal return is between 80% and 90% due to involuntary delisting in the Korean market, where liquidity all but disappears as a result of...

We use unique equity holdings data for each type of investor to investigate the relationship between individual investors' shareholdings and variables such as corporate characteristics and stock returns in the Korean stock market. We find that stocks with the highest individual holdings...

In spite of increasing interest in open innovation, discussion about the concept and its potential application to the SME sector has been excluded from mainstream literature. However, given that the argument about the effect of firm size on the effectiveness of innovation is still ongoing, it is...

Prior empirical evidence of predictable variations in stock returns following large price changes is found to be, at least in part, driven by the sample selection bias arising from the systematic movement of closing transaction prices within the bid-ask spread. By using the average of the...