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Major Research Projects: Recent submissions
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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, 2013)This paper discusses the possibility to obtain abnormal return base on the relationship between firm size and the Monday effect. Interested investors may consider invest in large-cap firm, especially Financials and Materials ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study examines the direct impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the cost of bank debt in a strictly Canadian context. Bank loan information for large, publicly owed, Canadian firms is combined with CSR ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper analyses the relationship between stock returns and Indian rupee-US Dollar Exchange Rates. Several statistical tests have been applied in order to study the behavior and dynamics of both the series. The paper ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this study is to determine whether real exchange rate between China and Canada has a significant effect on the agri-food sector of China value. Co-integration analysis is the key method used in analysis this ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper provides an explanation whether product diversified firms tend to have more long-term debt compared to non-diversified firms. To conduct this study a sample of 571486 firms (North-American) was taken from a ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) as the representative of foreign stocks listed on the U.S. stock exchanges require more risk exposures than domestic stocks. This paper investigates the exchange risk effect on ADR returns ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper aims to examine the effect of institutional investment horizon on the stock response to S&P500 index additions. The study argues that institutional investors with a longer investment horizon will monitor more ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Using a sample 150 firms that were recently added to the S&P 500 Index, we investigate whether corporate social responsibility ratings alters stock response after addition to the S&P 500 Index. We define and construct an ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates the relationship between option-based executive compensation and risk-taking in the U.S. banking industry over 2007-2012. We obtained a sample of 52 banks and 312 observations to prove the hypothesis ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Negotiation and decision-making processes are complex interactions. People behave and perceive situations differently often having opposing opinions on the best course of action. This thesis considers perceptions that ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The past work which has studied the impact of the factors of the firm’s capital structure has always focused on the demand side. That is to maximize the firm’s value through different capital structures, industries’ ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study examines the extent to which corporate social responsibility (CSR) alters the stock response to the announcement of equity carve-out (ECO). Using a sample of the US ECOs over the 1991-2001 periods and employing ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper tests the risk premium on crude oil future prices in the US market. The history data on five crude oil spot prices and one crude oil future are collected through the period 2011 to 2013. To examine the risk ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study investigates whether the relationship between international diversification on manufacturing and service firms’ performance is linear or non-linear. This study was conducted by selecting a sample of 335 US based ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The objective of this study is to evaluate the comparative financial performance of Islamic and conventional banks. To undertake a rigorous comparative study, profitability, liability and liquidity ratios of Islamic banks ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this study is to test the effect of cross-listing on the valuation of Chinese firms. The research performed event study with the event window of 20 days, 60 days and 120 days to examine the existence of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)Investors are becoming increasingly interested in international diversification due to the emergence of new capital markets and liberalization of stock markets in recent years. This allows them to have a large basket of ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)After China reformed the exchange rate policy in 2005, experts and scholars began to pay more attention to study the relationship between RMB exchange rate movements and China’s economy. Exchange rates are an important and ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of firm-specific characteristics on firms’ security issuance choice among straight debt, convertible debt and equity in Canada. Firms in this study are Canadian and listed ...
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