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Browsing Major Research Projects by Author "Boabang, Francis"
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of redemption fees on mutual fund performance. The focus type of mutual funds in this paper is US small value funds. In order to achieve this purpose, 3 models will be applied ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This paper examines the factors for IPO underpricing phenomenon in Japan between year 2002 and 2007. The paper uses the IPO sample from the high-tech industry and the sample consists of 119 IPO issues over the period 2002 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2015)This paper examines the experience of acquiring-firm shareholders wealth during recent technology merger wave in U.S. from 2010 to 2014. The methodology in this paper uses 635 acquisitions from the high-tech industry over ...
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(2012)The purpose of this study is to determine whether or not closed-end funds initial public offerings (IPOs) are underpriced or overpriced in the U.S. Market. Through the analysis, we conclude that 202 out of 229 selected ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2012)This paper tests how the Canadian stock market reacts to Canadian firms’ cross-listing on European stock exchanges. Sixty-four Canadian firms that are cross-listed are collected through the period of 2001-2012. Most of the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper designs an event study to empirically test if there is an abnormal return aroused by share repurchase announcements in Chinese capital market. By using the Market Model, we get the data of abnormal returns, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2012)This paper investigates the underpricing level of A-shares and B-shares IPO companies listed in the Chinese stock market from 1991 to 2010. The sample covers 84 IPOs of listed companies with 42 A-shares and 42 B-shares. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates into the effect of dividend increase announcements to US and China financial market by selecting 30 stocks in Shanghai Stock Exchange and 40 stocks in New York Stock Exchange during the period of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The twenty first century started with the sixth merger wave and a tremendous increase has been observed in the number of corporate mergers and acquisitions since 2003. This study investigates whether the announcements of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Momentum effect is a market anomaly. It indicates that past winners in the stock market keep over-performing past losers over the short run namely, one to twelve months. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the ...
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Does the cross-listing premium that Canadian firms gain also reflect their own default probabilities (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)Cross-listing has been a popular strategy for business expansion and seems always to be followed by appreciation in firm value. Previous theories explain the existence of this stock premium either due to risk reduction, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2014)An empirical investigation in U.S. technology sector is done in this paper using event study methodology to find out existence of significant abnormal returns surrounding stock split announcements. The average abnormal ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates the effect of stock split announcements on stock prices in the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Unlike other papers, the short-term effect is only considered in this study. The results constructed on ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to examine the stability of the revived Bretton Wood System(BW2). During the economic crisis, people became concerned about the stability and efficiency of the new-born system. The paper focuses ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The long-term performance of seasoned equity offerings has been widely examined in studies. This paper will focus on France stock market long-term performance through the liquidity characteristics and cumulative excess ...
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(Halifax, N.S. :Saint Mary's University, 2012)The purpose of this paper is to examine the volatility timing abilities of Chinese growth style mutual fund managers by constructing single factor model with Busse volatility timing model, choosing the growth style mutual ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary’s University, 2012)The purpose of this study is to investigate the volatility timing skill in Chinese mutual fund industry. Mutual fund is the most prevalent investment over the past 20 years and has evolved rapidly with booming economy. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Insider trading is understood as a negative motivator for regular investors. This is because they gain abnormal returns that effect the sentiments of the investors. To measure the abnormal returns earned by the insiders, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper focuses on the profitability of short term and medium-term momentum and contrarian effect in Chinese capital market. The result of the research shows the theory that momentum and contrarian effects exist in ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this paper is evaluate the relationship between mergers and acquisitions and the post and pre acquisition performance of some utility firms in the United States. Based on the result of the analysis, we ...
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