Real market institutions, stock and commodity exchanges for example, do not occur in isolation. Company stock is frequently listed on several stock exchanges, and futures exchanges make it possible for dealers in a particular commodity to offset their risks by trading options in that commodity. While there has been extensive research into agent-based trading in individual markets, there is litt...

Text mining on a large scale that addresses actionable prediction needs to content with noisy information in documents, and with interdependencies between the kinds of NLP techniques applied and the data representation of instances. This paper presents an initial investigation of the impact of improved company mention detection for financial analytics. Coverage of company mention detection impr...

Prediction of stock returns has always been one of the most important issues in finance. Investors have attracted to use of Fama-French Five-Factor Model (FFFFM) as one of the powerful methods for pricing financial assets and predicting the stock returns. This research investigates the predictability of stock returns by including some important firms features namely cash holdings, dividend rate...

The Second Board Market is typical stock market for high tech companies in China. This paper discusses the relationship between trading volume and price changes in the case of high-tech listed companies in the Chinese Second-Board Stock Market. By using the basic concepts proposed by Kim and Verrecchia, and Kandel and Pearson, and contrasting them with ex-post information from earnings releases...

In this study, we examined the correlates of individual employee satisfaction with stock ownership in a sample of 37 employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) companies. The results indicated that ESOP satisfaction is a function of five factors: (a) characteristics of the company ESOP, (b) employee status within the ESOP, (c) employee values, (d) interactions between employee and ESOP characteristic...

the purpose of resent research is to analysis and compares performance evaluation models of selected investment companies in tehran stock exchange market in the field of their portfolio management. the duration of research was between years 2009-2014. statistical society the research is consisting of all active investment companies in in tehran stock exchange market which were 30 companies. vol...

This paper provides an overview of current U.S. practices and research findings concerning key consequences of executive ownership and stock option grants. Logic and some empirical findings suggest that the consequences of the level of executive ownership and the size of stock option grants have non-monotic relationships to firm performance. The size of option grants now typical in the U.S. is ...

In May 2000, ABC Industries (a multinational company which is quoted on the New York Stock Exchange) and Quisolvén (a company based on local capital from Columbusland1) announced the merger of their separate chemical product distribution businesses, thus creating the second largest company in the sector in Columbusland. The new joint venture Quisolvén was to be directed and operated by both par...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The aim of this investigation is to determine the mean scores of the possibility of implementing the MCI standards in Khorasan Razavi hospitals, from the perspective of Managers, in order to provide a suitable model for evaluating and promoting the system. METHODS This was a Research and method (R&D) and Survey Research method, which is of the type of Cross- Sectional,...