What determines stock option contract design?

What determines bank stock price synchronicity? Global evidence

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996-2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial crisis; (2) in countries that have more credit provided by banks; (3) in countries that do not have explicit depository insurance; and (4) in countries that h...

a legal study of the option contract in the stock market

option contracts are one of the most important financial instruments which have been recently considered as a vehicle for management of risks and development of capital market. in iran, the importance of option contracts is increasingly recognized in the capital market. in this article the legal aspects of option contracts will be examined. for this purpose the views of islamic jurists and lawy...

What Constitutes a Contract?

What Determines Absorptive Capacity

The paper empirically analyses the effect of R&D activities, human resource and knowledge management, and the organisation of knowledge sharing within a firm on the absorptive capacity of innovative firms. Using data from the German innovation survey we investigate how firms are able to exploit knowledge from external partners for successful innovation activities. We distinguish between three t...

What Determines Firm Size?

Motivated by theories of the rm, which we classify as \technological" or \organizational", we analyze the determinants of rm size across industries and across countries in a sample of 15 European countries. We nd that, on average, rms facing larger markets are larger. At the industry level, we nd rms in the utility sector are large, perhaps because they enjoy a natural, or o cially sanctioned, ...