Stock exchanges around the world have experienced major changes with respect tocorporate governance beginning with the early 1990s. Until that time, almost all exchanges weremember-owned, organized as ‘non-profit‘ mutual organizations. Although there were no publiclytraded exchanges 15 years...

The traditional Capital Asset Pricing Model stating that the risk premium of a financial asset is positively related to its market risk, was found to be insufficient in explaining the expected returns of stocks. Fama and French (1993) introduced the “Three-Factor Asset Pricing Model” via...