The digital revolution affects all economic aspects and the financial sector is not an exception. Despite the wide evidence on the impact of Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) on the financial sector development, this topic has yet to be researched in Syria. We investigate the...

How does competition in firms' product markets influence stock returns? We examine this question using firms domiciled in the UK. We find that firms in less concentrated industries earn higher returns, even after controlling for the well-known determinants of the cross-section of UK stock...

Theory suggests that, under certain assumptions, corporate distributions should reduce market value on a one-to-one basis. This result is sometimes known as dividend displacement. Nonetheless, dividend displacement tends to be rejected by empirical tests for total dividends and regular...