Studies in Economics and Finance: Volume 26 Issue 3

Subjects:

Table of contents

Divergence of opinion and valuation in a mean‐variance framework

Jacques A. Schnabel

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of heterogeneous expectations on the equilibrium value of a risky asset in a capital market populated by investors that choose…

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Banking performance and technological change in non‐core EU countries: A study of Spain and Portugal

Catarina Figueira, Joseph Nellis, David Parker

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cost efficiency of banks operating in two “non‐core” EU countries, Portugal and Spain, over a number of years. Specifically, the…

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Evaluating random walk forecasts of exchange rates

Hamid Baghestani

The random walk forecast of exchange rate serves as a standard benchmark for forecast comparison. The purpose of this paper is to assess whether this benchmark is unbiased and…

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Dividend behaviour and smoothing new evidence from Jordanian panel data

Basil Al‐Najjar

The purpose of this paper is to investigate dividend policy decisions in developing countries through studying Jordanian non‐financial firms. It aims to highlight the issue of…

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Stock returns, size, and book‐to‐market equity

Pradosh Simlai

The purpose of this paper is to reinvestigate the performance of common stock returns with respect to two popularly known firm level characteristics: size and book‐to‐market ratio.

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Cover of Studies in Economics and Finance

ISSN:

1086-7376

Online date, start – end:

1977

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Niklas Wagner