In social and economic analysis of longitudinal data, the socio-economic variables that are statistically significant in pooled data regressions sometimes become insignificant after individual fixed effects are controlled for. This phenomenon has been observed in the analysis of the relationship...

Abnormal trading volumes around scheduled and unscheduled announcements are investigated and Australian stocks are used to establish whether market characteristics affect trading behavior around announcements. In contrast to the results of earlier studies which mainly focus on the U.S. market,...

Rational strategic planning has long been used as an instrument to improve financial performance. With the increasing complexity of the business environment, this positive impact has decreased. As a result, there have been several calls for more work focusing on investigating and understanding...

We assess the stock market volatility spillover between three closely related countries, United States, China and Australia. This study considers industry data and hence provides a clear idea of the channels through which volatility is transmitted across these countries. We find that there is...

Despite the increasingly tight economic relationship between China and Australia, little attention has been paid to the analysis of stock market volatility spillover across these two countries. This paper, based on industry data, fills the gap in the literature and provides a clear idea of the...