the development of the cyprus stock exchange together with the increasing trend of investors’ presence in financing activities has led to the importance of this market. in such circumstances, the first step towards a sustainable development of the exchange is to support the investors. risk of bankruptcy for the investee is a major challenge that an inexperienced stock investor encounters. in th...

since public sector enterprises poor performance become evident, privatization as a means of improving such enterprises performance and curbing government interference in business activities has attracted much attention at national policy making levels. privatization is a complex and long term process the effect of which may appear over a long period of tome. there fore, considering it a limpid...

This study aims to determine differences in environmental disclosure practices Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand identify factors that are suspected influence disclosure, including the size of board commissioners, profitability, company size. The population this is large companies listed on Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI), Malaysia (KLSE), (SET) which included largest stock market indexes each excha...

This paper examines the effects of selected macroeconomic variables on the stock market index in Iran. Using quarterly data, we examine the relationships between the Tehran Stock Index (TSI) and five macroeconomic variables which consist of gross domestic product, nominal effective exchange rate, money supply, gold coin price and investment in housing sector from 1996:1 to 2008:1.Various e...

Previously security market research had been focused mainly on developed economies with no attention paid to the security markets of developing countries of South East Asia. In an attempt to fill this gap in the literature, this paper conducts an empirical investigation of the random walk of security prices in Pakistani stock markets. The Augmented Dickey fuller test, Ljung Box Q test, Variance...

Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Limited, established in 1875 as the Native Share and Stock Brokers' Association is considered to be one of Asia’s fastest stock exchanges and oldest stock exchange in the South Asia region. On 31 August 1957, the BSE became the first stock exchange to be recognized by the Indian Government under the Securities Contracts Regulation Act 1956. In this paper, we develope...

Throughout their history, puts and calls [1] on common stock have been criticized as mere gambling opportunities. Recently, the creation of listed options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and three regional exchanges in the United States, has given new respectability to options as investment vehicles. By year-end 1977, listed options to 217 common stocks were a...

the goal of this research is to predict total stock market index of tehran stock exchange, using the compound method of arima and neural network in order for the active participations of finance market as well as macro decision makers to be able to predict trend of the market. first, the series of price index was decomposed by wavelet transform, then the smooth's series  predicted by using...

In the period November 2003 to February 2004, there was an unambiguous upward trend in the U.S. stock market. Over the same period, the U.S. dollar kept depreciating against all major currencies. Analysts kept trying to predict when this downward trend would come to an end based on the U.S. trade deficit. Was not the exchange rate affected by the stock market instead? In this paper, I study if ...