I investigate the effects of imposing different bands of price limits on stock returns and volatility in the Egyptian (EGX), Thai (SET) and Korean (KRX) stock exchanges. In addition, the paper examines whether the switch from narrow price limits (NPL) to wider price limits (WPL) structurally...

Stock markets continually reflect the assessment of CEOs' characteristics into stock prices hence we expect that there might be a link between CEOs' demographic characteristics and stock return volatility. We investigate the influence of CEOs' demographic characteristics (e.g. age, tenure,...