Browsing by Author "Boabang, Francis"

Browsing by Author "Boabang, Francis"

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  • Zhou, Fang (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    In a large percentage of research studies, we find the degree of underpricing uses offer-to-close return as initial return to study factors influencing the degree of IPO underpricing. The objective of this study is ...

  • Chen, Jiamin (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    After more than 20 years of development, China’s capital markets are not yet mature. In order to guide the reform of mature market, the study on the IPO price determination in GEM is necessary. We employ the factor analysis ...

  • Chilakala, Geetanjali (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)
    This paper investigates empirical existence of theories of IPO underpricing in Canadian Energy Sector. The study based on IPO listed in all Canadian stock exchanges from 1990-2014 analyzes level of IPO underpricing and its ...

  • Liu, Zhengyang (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2012)
    The phenomenon of IPOs’ underpricing has been investigated of stock markets around the world. In this paper, I focus on 203 IPOs from 2009 to 2011 extracted from Shenzhen growth enterprise market. Underpricing is directly ...

  • Wang, Xisheng (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    The paper investigates the underpricing level of GEM IPO companies which are listed in the Hong Kong stock market from 1999 to 2011. We examine some of the factors that influence IPO underpricing such as offering price, ...

  • Gu, Xiaodan (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    This paper tests the existence of volatility timing skills in the Tokyo ETFs market. The historical daily data on sixty-two ETFs are collected covering the period July 1st, 2003 to July 16 , 2013 from Bloomberg. Two methods ...

  • Zhang, Yanqing Y. Q. (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)
    This paper mainly tests the Canadian market reaction to Canadian firms being cross listed on U.S. stock exchanges. We tested the existence of abnormal returns based on cumulative abnormal returns using 11-day and 21-day ...

  • Ma, Rui (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    The goal of the paper is to find out the relationship between indicators and intraday stock price using data from the United States stock market give a reasonable conclusion on how accurate the indicators reflect the stock ...

  • Chen, Shilin (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)
    This study is investigate whether or not mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can create a value for shareholders. We employ the M&A data to test whether or not the North America stock market have achieved the Semi-strong form ...

  • Han, Qiao (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    This paper measures the relative performance of ETFs in the US market. The historical data on four ETFs and four Mutual Funds are collected through 2011 to 2013. To examine the relative performance of ETFs compared to the ...

  • Zhou, Chunlai (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    This paper investigates short term to intermediate-horizon momentum effect in Chinese capital market. The result of the research supports the assertion that momentum effect exists in Chinese capital market. Using momentum ...

  • Li, Yanyan (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    This paper evaluates the performance of ETFs in the global emerging markets, focusing on China. Historical data on six ETFs are collected through the period 2012 to 2013. To examine the performance of the ETFs based on the ...

  • Merdhah, Eilaf (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    The purpose of this study is to provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the performance of SWFs in several countries, explain why they are different, and compare three measures of performance evaluation. The three ...

  • Chen, Jinwen (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    With the rapid growth of Chinese fund market, as at July 31, 2012, there were 74 fund companies and 800 open-ended funds in the market. The Chinese open-ended fund market is an emerging industry with relatively thin research ...

  • Lin, Shuo (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    Recently, more and more investors chose mutual fund as their first investment tool. This research contains 39 Taiwan mutual funds’ monthly returns from 2003 to 2012. This research bases on Jensen’s Alpha and Odd-log ratio. ...

  • Chu, Hongkai (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)
    This paper tests whether or not the Hong Kong equity growth funds have performance persistence. The research uses a sample of thirty-eight Hong Kong equity funds over the period 2008-2012 for the significance of the ...

  • Yang, Yuxiang (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    More and more Chinese companies have been listed on Hong Kong and mainland China . The pricing differentials between Hong Kong shares and the corresponding shares have existed persistently, even though the Hong Kong and ...

  • Ahmed, Shahzohaib (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    This study is an effort to analyze the predictive capabilities of the moving average indicator as a technical analysis tool. Major stock exchanges of the world are selected which represent the numerous markets of the world ...

  • Liu, Hao (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)
    This paper studies the relationship between ownership structure and corporate performance. After the reform of the Chinese financial system, ownership structure has become an important factor related to corporate performance. ...

  • Li, Jiaqi (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2012)
    This paper utilized an event-study in order to investigate the effect of the announcement of CEO turnover and the stock prices. In this paper, using 100 corporate firms are listed in the NASDAQ and New York Stock Exchange ...