This paper examines the effectiveness, cause and impact of price limits by comparing cross-listed Chinese stocks in China (A shares), Hong Kong (H shares) and New York (N shares). Price limit is found to have some effectiveness in preventing price continuation, but is ineffective in that the...

This paper investigates the significance of changes in foreign currency sovereign credit ratings for both domestic and cross-country stock market returns of five Asian countries during the period from January 1990 to March 2003. Using the changes in sovereign credit ratings announced by Standard...

Transaction cost economics deals with costs incurred at the pre-contract phase such as the costs of conducting market research, exploring financial opportunities, conducting a feasibility study, organizing a bidding/negotiation and managing design; and with costs incurred in the post-contract...