The purpose of this study is to examine the short- and long-run relationships between stock market performance and economic growth for six emerging countries (Malaysia, Turkey, Mexico, Korea, India, and Brazil). To this end, the bounds testing approach to cointegration and Granger and...

One of the main lacks of the profit persistence literature is the fact that it focuses on only manufacturing, banking and food industries. This study, for the first time, extends the literature by considering the intensity of competition in 13 energy companies from 1997 to 2011 in Turkey as an...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the performance and pricing efficiency of the Dow Jones DJIM Turkey Exchange Traded Fund (DJIMTR), the world's first exchange-traded fund launched to track an Islamic market index. Using the daily data set, it is found that relative to its traditional...