the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between free cash flows and stock return considering managers' myopia. two hypotheses have been designed and tested, selecting 96 firms from accepted companies in the tehran stock exchange for six-year period from 2005 to 2010 and using stock return for three years ahead (to 2012). the results show that free cash flows are negati...

this paper investigates the nature of volatility characteristics of stock returns in the bangladesh stock markets employing daily all share price index return data of dhaka stock exchange (dse) and chittagong stock exchange (cse) from 02 january 1993 to 27 january 2013 and 01 january 2004 to 20 august 2015 respectively.  furthermore, the study explores the adequate volatility model for the stoc...

in this paper we examine the effect of the oil volatility, consumer price index (cpi) and industrial production on the stock market return in tehran stock exchange (tse). we used seasonal data in period 1378-1390 and auto regressive distributed method (ardl) for the short-term and long-term relationship between the variables. as results of research indicate, we find that there is positive short...

the purpose of this study is to concentrate on the investigation of days-of-week effect on tehran stock exchange and its comparison with other emerging markets. using classical linear regression (clr) as well as autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (arch) models it in indicated has indicated that there is significantly positive total return on saturdays and significantly negative total...

Stock market prediction is important and of great interest because successful prediction of stock prices may promise attractive benefits. These tasks are highly complicated and very difficult. In this paper, we investigate the predictability of stock market return with Adaptive Network-Based Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS). The objective of this study is to determine whether an ANFIS algorithm i...

Identifying homogeneous groups of stocks, where these stocks have similar movement of returns is called stock return comovement analysis. Stock return comovement analysis is important to financial analysts, decision makers, and academic researchers, in many financial implications. This paper examines firms’ social media, in particular, microblogging metrics’ role on analyzing stock return comov...

This study tests the hypothesis that market value added (MVA) is more highly associated with stock return (SR) than traditional performance measures. The purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the relative and incremental information content of MVA and traditional performance measures, namely, net income (NI), net operational profit after tax (NOPAT), and earning per shares (...