Using a new hand-collected data set, this study examines the stock price manipulation in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). We examine the characteristics of the manipulated stocks, and their impacts on market quality. The results show that manipulated stocks tend to be small. The stock prices rise throughout the manipulation period, followed by a price reversal. The average cumulative abnormal r...

This paper examines vertical integration and its impact on profitability and shareholder value in the global banking industry. We derive a measure for vertical integration using a sample of 859 banks from 9 Anglo-Saxon and European countries covering the timeframe 1997-2002. Our results suggest that banks either operating on highly integrated or highly disintegrated levels of vertical integrati...

one of the issues that in recent decades in the field of information economy is rapidly expanding economy under information and discussion in this major economic problem of asymmetric information is related. as we know in today's world information and trading stock market performance is the core. lateral velocity and symmetry of the main role of information and market efficiency is critical. on...

As internet becomes ubiquitous, search engine has become a standard way for people to retrieve information. Naturally, interests arise to explore whether the search volume of particular keywords tells something about the collective “mood” of the general public. Such correlation has been explored to determine various facors affected by popular interest, from consumer reception to political optin...

Using the efficiency of capital allocation function to characterize the stock market system efficiency.Using panel data analysis method,from a regional perspective empirical analysisto implement the stock market during the capital allocation function efficiency issue approval system for China.The results show: the efficiency of resource allocation of China stock market is lower,and stock market...

Noise traders as one of the key elements of the market play a significant role in determining the market volatilities, returns, and stock market mispricing. Hence, this study attempts to scrutinize the role of noise trading in capital asset pricing. Therefore, by using daily data, samples including 14105 data of 200 companies listed on stock exchange were selected and noise trading index was es...

Structural shifts characterize the volatility of the Korean stock and foreign exchange markets during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. This paper employs an unrestricted bivariate GARCH-M model of stock market returns to investigate empirically the effects of daily currency depreciation on Korean stock market returns. The evidence shows that currency depreciation significantly affects stock mar...