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Major Research Projects: Recent submissions
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates the IPO price performance of Canada’s manufacturing firms. We examine the theory and evidence on IPO activities: in the manufacturing sector based on first day of trading, and the long run IPO ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper examines herd behavior in the Singapore markets by using daily data from January 2002 to December 2012. Evidence of herd behavior is found in the Singapore market and is present in both the bull and bear markets, ...
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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)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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study examines the impact of new product announcements from 8 fast food companies on share prices. All these announcements were from 2009-2013. Using historical stock price data, an analysis of the existence of abnormal ...
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(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 ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This study is designed to determine if mergers and acquisitions (M&A) can create value for companies in U.S. technology industry. The abnormal return around the announcement date and the significance of cumulative abnormal ...
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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, 2013)This paper analyses the mispricing of 20 energy, utility and natural resources IPOs in Japan from the year 1998 to 2009. The study confirms that the offer price and issue size have positive relationship with the IPO ...
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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)The purpose of this study is to analyze how the Subprime crisis affected on U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITS). This is achieved by testing the relationship between REITs and utility stocks using data from the ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)The purpose of my research work is to investigate whether fundamental accounting signals have a significant influence on the option returns. The fundamental accounting signals released by companies will have a deep effect ...
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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 purpose of this study was to investigate how underwriters estimate the fair value of IPO firms and how they decide on the final offer prices for IPOs. We employ comprehensive data on 2609 IPOs from 1975 to1984 extracted ...
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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)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 ...
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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)The objective of this study is to investigate the pricing efficiency for HSI and Mini-HSI futures and options contracts, this will assist investors to avoid the volatility of the market, reduce the risk from the spot market, ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper tests the impact of cross-listing on Canadian mining firm’s shareholder’s return. An event study is used to test abnormal return following the announcements of cross-listing event on the Frankfurt stock exchange. ...
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(Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2013)This paper investigates the relationship between fund size and mutual fund performance. We focus the relationship between closed-end fund size and closed-end fund performance since research work done in this area is very ...
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