The attention-grabbing hypothesis has been offered as a behavioural explanation for post-event abnormal returns for FDA drug approval announcements for NYSE listed firms. We show that when event-day mis-specification is accounted for the market reaction is centred on the event-day and that the...

The impact of trades on price dynamics in the European sovereign debt markets is of significant importance to policy makers and market participants. This paper uses high-frequency quote and transaction data from the MTS European sovereign bond inter-dealer platform to investigate...

This paper investigates whether long-term contrarian performance on the UK market is driven by low-priced stocks. We find that contrarian performance at low, middle, low price levels is positive. On the Fama-French risk adjusted basis, we find both low-priced and middle-priced losers have...