The main objective of this research is to assess whether UK listed companies comply with the U.K code of corporate governance regarding audit committees and disclosure arrangements. The research also aims at testing whether the companies’ size and board composition affect the management’s decision to comply with the requirements of the U.K code. Data was collected from the U.K listed FTSE compa...

This paper compares the performance of Black-Scholes with an artificial neural network (ANN) in pricing European style call options on the FTSE 100 index. It is the first extensive study of the performance of ANNs in pricing UK options, and the first to allow for dividends in the closed-form model. For out-of themoney options, the ANN is clearly superior to Black-Scholes. For in-the-money optio...

This paper investigates how defined benefit pensions deficits/surpluses influence UK company valuation under the fair value accounting regime that became mandatory in 2006 with the introduction of IAS 19. Using a sample of FTSE firms from 2006 to 2012 we find that reported pension deficits significantly reduce the market value of a company, with the market valuation of deficits being larger tha...

This paper compares the forecasting performance of the conditional autoregressive range (CARR) model with the commonly adopted GARCH model. Two major stock indices, FTSE 100 and Nikkei 225, are studies using the daily range data and daily close price data over the period 1990 to 2000. Our results suggest that improvements of the overall estimation are achieved when the CARR models are used. Mor...

We investigate the impact of dark trading on adverse selection in an aggregate market for UK stocks. Dark is linked to lower risk and improved informational efficiency liquidity market, even as declines lit with trading. However, there a value-based threshold when starts induce selection. estimate that this varies from around 9% most liquid stocks 25% least The overall average 288 FTSE 350 our ...

The paper features an examination of the link between behaviour FTSE 100 and S&P500 Indexes in both autoregressive distributed lag ARDL, plus a nonlinear NARDL framework. attraction is that it represents simplest method available modelling combined short- long-run asymmetries. bounds testing framework adopted means can be applied to stationary non-stationary time series vectors, or combinat...