Event studies typically use the methodology developed by Fama et al. [1969. The adjustment of stock prices to new information. International Economic Review 10, no. 1: 1-21] to segregate a stock's return into expected and unexpected components. Moreover, conventional practice assumes that...

This paper investigates the consistency of efficiency scores obtained from the stochastic frontier analysis and data envelopment analysis methods. We estimate cost efficiency and economies of scale based on an unbalanced panel data set of Chinese banks over the period 1994 to 2007. The results...

The use of an inter-temporally constant discount rate or cost of capital is a strong assumption in many <italic>ex ante</italic> models of finance and in applied procedures such as capital budgeting. We investigate how robust this assumption is by analysing the implications of allowing the cost of capital to...

The centred return on the London Stock Exchange's FTSE All Share Index is modelled as a simple harmonic oscillator with noise over the period from 1 January, 1994 until 30 June 2006. Our empirical results are compatible with the hypothesis that there is a period in the FTSE All Share Index of...

A number of authors have used the portfolio standard deviation to model the risk reduction advantages of naive diversification. Other authors have pointed out that when risk is modelled by the portfolio's variance the modelling process becomes much simpler and is computationally more efficient....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine distributional properties of the accumulated rate of interest when the instantaneous rate of interest evolves in terms of the Cox et al. (1985) square root process. Design/methodology/approach: The law of iterated (or double) expectations is...

The instantaneous return on the Financial Times-Stock Exchange (FTSE) All Share Index is viewed as a frictionless particle moving in a one-dimensional square well but where there is a non-trivial probability of the particle tunneling into the well’s retaining walls. Our analysis demonstrates...

Our concern in the present paper is with an empirical evaluation of the relevance of published depreciation numbers. We report results of an attempt to assess the correspondence between the depreciation rates implied by published financial statements and the market-based rates implied by time...