Dissertations / Theses: 'Stock exchange'

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Altaf, Saadia, and Ghenadie Cospormac. "Demutualization of stock exchanges : A case study : London Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock Exchange." Thesis, University of Skövde, School of Technology and Society, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-3129.

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The focus of this study is to evaluate the impact of corporate ownership structure on the overall performance of stock exchanges. This study distinguishes in particular mutual versus demutualized ownership. London Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock Exchange are chosen as study cases, because London Stock Exchange is one of the world leading stock exchanges and Hong Kong Stock Exchange is definitely one of the most important emerging market stock exchanges. That is why the results obtained by comparing these two stock exchanges could serve as good indicator in understanding the effects of demutualization process on the whole stock exchange sector and retain the subtle differences in micro-behavior of the stock exchanges undergone the same transformation.

In this paper the simple descriptive statistics is used as the method of analysis, in association to a profound review of the literature in this area. The data illuminate the fact that demutualized stock exchanges hold a stronger operating performance and a better performance in term of shareholder’s return than mutual exchanges. The result is generally in line with the basic theories in the area of corporate governance and empirical studies in this specific area like Aggarwal (2006), Mendiola and O’Hara (2003) and Hart and Moore (1996).

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Wong, Tak Po. "Two essays on the study of the microstructure of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong /." View Abstract or Full-Text, 2002. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?FINA%202002%20WONG.

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Ignatius, Roger. "The Bombay Stock Exchange: tests of market efficiency." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332561/.

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This dissertation analyzes the efficiency of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and the relationship of stock return patterns on the BSE with those of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). The data includes daily closing values of the BSE and S&P 500 Indexes for the period 1979-1990 and bi-weekly closing prices on 27 of the most active stocks on the BSE for the period 1980-1990.

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Santos, Paulo Manuel B. R. "A.I. stock exchange." Master's thesis, Porto : [s. n.], 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/64162.

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Santos, Paulo Manuel B. R. "A.I. stock exchange." Dissertação, Porto : [s. n.], 2007. http://catalogo.up.pt/F?func=find-b&local_base=FCB01&find_code=SYS&request=000101328.

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Menke, Susan Diane. "Metaphors of exchange and the Shanghai stock market." online access from Digital Dissertation Consortium access full-text, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9971606.

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Sangmanee, Amporn. "An Empirical Analysis of Stock Market Anomalies and Spillover Effects: Evidence from the Securities Exchange of Thailand." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc277737/.

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This study examines two interrelated but separate issues: cross-sectional predictability of equity returns in the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), and transmission of stock market movements. The first essay empirically investigates to what extent the evidence of three major documented stock market anomalies (earnings-price ratio, firm size, and book-to-market ratio) can be generalized across national stock markets. The second essay studies the price and volatility spillover effects from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) to the SET. The first essay, using the Fama-Macbeth procedure and the pooled time-series cross-sectional GLS regressions, finds a weak relation between the beta and average stock returns. The adjustment of estimated beta for the effect of thin trading does not change the implications of the results. Of the three anomalies investigated, the size effect has the most prominent and consistent role in explaining average returns. For the earnings-price ratio, the results indicate that the significance of the E/P ratio variable persists only if the nonfinancial firms are considered. In contrast to the previous empirical results for the U.S. and Japanese stock markets, the book-to-market ratio fails to explain the SET equity returns. The second essay employs a generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (GARCH) model with conditional t-distributed errors to investigate the spillover effects. No evidence of price spillover effects is found for the full sample period. However, the spillover effects are significant during the period in which the Federal Reserve Board raised interest rates. Further examinations reveal that information inferred from price changes in the U.S. market influences only the opening price in the SET, not the open-to-close Thai stock market returns. This implies that price in the SET is informationally efficient with respect to the price determined in the U.S. stock market. The evidence is generally supportive of international financial integration and informational efficiency in the Thai stock market.

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Mabhunu, Mind. "The market efficiency hypothesis and the behaviour of stock returns on the JSE securities exchange." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002762.

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While the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EHM) has been widely accepted as robust by many researchers in the field of capital markets, the hypothesis’ robustness has been under increased scrutiny and question lately. In the light of the concerns over the robustness of the EMH, the weak form efficiency of the JSE is tested. Stock returns used in the analysis were controlled for thin trading and it was discovered that once returns are controlled for thin trading, they are independent of each other across time. Some of the previous studies found the JSE to be inefficient in the weak form but this research found that the JSE is efficient in the weak form. A comparison is also made between the JSE and four other African stock markets and the JSE is found to be more efficient than the other markets. The developments on the JSE, which have improved information dissemination as well as the efficiency of trading, contributed to the improvement of the JSE’s efficiency. The improvement in operational efficiency and turnover from the late 1990s has also made a major contribution to the improvement in the weak form efficiency of the JSE. Theory proposes that if markets are efficient then professional investment management is of little value if any; hence the position of professional investment managers in efficient markets is investigated. Although the JSE is found to be efficient, at least in the weak form, it is argued that achieving efficiency does not necessarily make the investment manager’s role obsolete. Investment managers are needed even when the market can be proved to be efficient.

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Winn, Roland. "Trading halts and the quality of exchange traded markets." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2000. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27742.

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This thesis investigates the effects of intraday halts in trading on the market quality of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange. This is the first such examination of halts on the Australian marketplace. This thesis contributes to earlier research in two ways. Firstly, more refined measurement of different characteristics of halts is undertaken in order to better control for factors which have confounded prior research. Secondly, the thesis examines changes in halt practices in Australia. Analysis of these changes provides a more direct and natural examination of halts. Earlier studies have used various proxies to estimate what normal trading behaviour would be if halts were removed. The evidence presented here indicates that trading around halts is characterised by excess volatility and increased bid—ask spreads, both of which are indicative of greater uncertainty. It is concluded that halts are detrimental to the quality of a market due to a loss of price discovery. This conclusion is robust to the presence of information, whether halts are anticipated, the trading environment, and the use of particular reopening mechanisms.

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Chen, Chi-Chih. "Virtual Sports Stock Exchange." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2740.

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The goal of this project is to create a web application to help people learn about the stock market. The Virtual Sports Stock Exchange (VSSX) simulates market trading based on the world of sports. It allows users to experiment with different economic models. Virtual Sports Stock Exchange (VSSX) uses HTML and Java Server Page to generate the output and calculations and it uses Java Servlet to interact with the Oracle 9i database.

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Lam, Wai-hung Freddie. "The impact of automation at the stock exchange of Hong Kong /." Hong Kong : [University of Hong Kong], 1987. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B12334960.

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Argyros, Robert. "The power of investor sentiment: an analysis of the impact of investor confidence on South African financial markets." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1004169.

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Whether investor sentiment has any authority over financial markets has long been a topic of discussion in the field of finance. This study investigates the relationship between investor sentiment and share returns in South Africa. Determining this relationship will add to the existing work which has documented important determinants of share returns on the stock exchange in South Africa, as well adding to the inconclusive link between sentiment and the South African financial markets. Does sentiment influence share returns or do share returns influence sentiment? Using quarterly data for the period 1996-2010, the study makes use of the FNB/BER Consumer Confidence Index as a proxy for investor sentiment, and the FTSE/JSE All Share Index to represent the South African financial markets. A regression analysis was conducted along with granger-causality tests, impulse response functions and variance decompositions in order to determine the nature of this relationship. The results showed that investor sentiment has a statistically significant relationship with share returns in South Africa. However, sentiment is only able to account for a very small portion of the variation in returns, with returns able to account for a larger portion of the variation in sentiment. Therefore investor sentiment is not a suitable predictor of share returns in South Africa. In addition, granger-causality tests indicate that returns are actually the leading indicator, suggesting that changes in South African investors’ confidence levels occur following changes in the state of the JSE. The limitations of the study include the infrequent nature of the sentiment measure used, thereby failing to capture important changes in sentiment and their immediate impact on financial markets. In addition, the sentiment of foreign investors must be taken into account due to the large foreign investment in the JSE.

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Mbululu, Douglas. "Day-of-the-week effect : evidence from nine sectors of the South African stock market." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002759.

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The day-of-the-week effect in share prices is one of the most extensively researched anomalies, especially in developed markets. However, emerging African stock markets have received little attention in this regard. This study breaks new ground in using non-parametric tests directly on skewness and kurtosis to examine whether the day-of-he-week effect exists in nine listed stock market sector indices of the JSE Securities Exchange of South Africa (JSE). Different day-of-the-week effects were found to be present in the statistical moments of returns of these nine JSE sectors

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Chen, Gary. "Behavioural heterogeneity in ASX 200 a dissertation submitted to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus), 2009 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/758.

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Kroha, Petr, and Ricardo Baeza-Yates. "Classification of Stock Exchange News." Universitätsbibliothek Chemnitz, 2004. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:swb:ch1-200401576.

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In this report we investigate how much similarity good news and bad news may have in context of long-terms market trends. We discuss the relation between text mining, classification, and information retrieval. We present examples that use identical set of words but have a quite different meaning, we present examples that can be interpreted in both positive or negative sense so that the decision is difficult as before reading them. Our examples prove that methods of information retrieval are not strong enough to solve problems as specified above. For searching of common properties in groups of news we had used classifiers (e.g. naive Bayes classifier) after we found that the use of diagnostic methods did not deliver reasonable results. For our experiments we have used historical data concerning the German market index DAX 30
In diesem Bericht untersuchen wir, wieviel Ähnlichkeit gute und schlechte Nachrichten im Kontext von Langzeitmarkttrends besitzen. Wir diskutieren die Verbindungen zwischen Text Mining, Klassifikation und Information Retrieval. Wir präsentieren Beispiele, die identische Wortmengen verwenden, aber trotzdem recht unterschiedliche Bedeutungen besitzen; Beispiele, die sowohl positiv als auch negativ interpretiert werden können. Sie zeigen Probleme auf, die mit Methoden des Information Retrieval nicht gelöst werden können. Um nach Gemeinsamkeiten in Nachrichtengruppen zu suchen, verwendeten wir Klassifikatoren (z.B. Naive Bayes), nachdem wir herausgefunden hatten, dass der Einsatz von diagnostizierenden Methoden keine vernünftigen Resultate erzielte. Für unsere Experimente nutzten wir historische Daten des Deutschen Aktienindex DAX 30

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Guan, Zhao. "The interrelationship between New Zealand stock market and exchange rates a dissertation submit [sic] to Auckland University of Technology in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business (MBus), 2008 /." Click here to access this resource online, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/481.

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Van, Heerden Carel. "Is the AltX doing what it is supposed to do? An analysis of the JSE Alternative Exchange." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/97366.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This research report investigates the history and current status of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange Alternative Exchange and its performance over time. The focus is on comparing the AltX with the JSE Main Board, the JSE top 40, The JSE Small Cap Index and London’s Alternative Investments Market AIM. The different listing requirements and the JSE Main Board will be explored. It then goes further to compare the performance of the JSE with that of AltX and AIM over time. A comparison between listings and de-listings is drawn between the AltX and the JSE Main Board. Complete risk analysis is then conducted in an attempt to compare the risk of listing on AltX, JSE and AIM and determine whether the AltX holds more risk than the other exchanges given its relaxed listing requirements and market sentiment around AltX. In comparing risk analysis with market sentiment as well as actual results, it can be concluded that AltXwhen analysed using beta; standard deviation; maximum draw down; Value at Risk; and the Sharpe ratio, does not carry significantly more risk than the JSE Main Board or AIM. The AltXdoes meet its requirements and is doing what it is designed to do, namely offering an opportunity for small and medium sized companies to raise capital and providing investors with the opportunity to become shareholder and trade in those shares as well as being a spring board to the JSE Main Board, but that moving to the Main Board does not always create more value for shareholders or has a positive influence on share price or liquidity.This brings the conclusion that company performance is still based on the individual performance of the company and not dependant on where the company is listed.

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Al-hussieni, Sami. "Exchange listing and shareholder wealth: Canadian evidence." Ottawa, 1998.

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Van, der Bijl Wouter Jan. "Special dividends on Johannesburg Stock Exchange : 1999-2011." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/95682.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.
Ever since listed companies have been allowed to buy back shares (since the Companies Amendment Act was introduced in 1999), a major question has been whether companies with extra cash should pay out dividends or buy back shares. The larger research project for the University of Stellenbosch Business School (USB) will evaluate this question by comparing the rand value of dividends paid to shareholders to the rand value of share buybacks and comparing the rand value of special dividends to the rand value of share buybacks. The research described in this report was conducted as part of the bigger research project on dividends and aimed to produce a provisional list of special dividends paid from 1999 to 2011 for all companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. The list comprises only special dividends paid from earnings, hence the term „provisional list‟. The bigger research project to produce a comprehensive list of special dividends will include the following additional steps: 1. Determining payments from earnings and share premium. 2. Determining payments from earnings, share premium and special designated dividends (SDD). 3. Determining payments from earnings, share premium, SDD and statistically evaluated dividends. The present research showed that using databases alone would not yield viable data for research purposes. The researcher started to gather data from two databases and afterwards had to evaluate the Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) announcements to eliminate the discrepancies. Furthermore, the physical financial statements gave valuable information to produce the provisional list. The correct method to determine the true rand amounts for dividends is firstly to consult the annual financial reports and secondly to retrieve the SENS announcements. Then the entry can be verified by multiplying the dividend per share by the number of shares on the record date. This rand value can be found in the financial statements in the statement of changes in equity. The dividends paid out of share premium are easy to identify, as the entry will be specifically stated in the statement of changes in equity. The determination of special dividends is rather difficult, because the rand amount of special dividends are hardly ever published as such in the statement of changes in equity. The conclusion reached by the researcher is that the only method to obtain the correct entries for any financial evaluation is to consult the audited financial statements. Databases can be useful in obtaining some information; however, the only reliable resource to retrieve the final information is from financial statements.

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Islam, Md Amirul, Biplob Chowdhury, and Md Amirul Islam. "The behavior of stock price on ex-dividend day : A study on New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-44996.

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The main aim of this thesis is to analyze the behavior of stock price on ex-dividend day in London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange and draw a conclusion about the market efficiency based. We collect 200 sample companies dividend, ex-dividend day and cum dividend day stock price to compare with NYSE composite index and FTSE 100 for London Stock Exchange. To answer the research question and specific purpose of our thesis we developed five null hypothesis based on raw price ratio (RPR), market-adjusted price ratio (MAPR), raw price drop ratio (RPD), market-adjusted price drop ratio (MAPD) and market-adjusted abnormal return (MAAR). We used t-statistic to find the mean differences between observed values and standard values. We also show multiple regression analysis to show the relationship between ex-dividend day stock price and dividend, cum-dividend day stock price. This thesis documented that same amount of stock price drop in 2008 New York Stock Exchange compare with dividend amount. In this case our null hypothesis accepted. On the other hand in London Stock Exchange shows higher drop of stock price than dividend amount in 2008 against the taxation rate rules of prior study. In 2007 both stock market shows the less drop of stock price than dividend amount. Therefore our null hypothesis rejected. We also documented that London Stock Exchange more volatile than New York Stock Exchange to consider the MAAR, tax rate and standard deviation. So we find significant evidence of market abnormal return which create an opportunity of market inefficiency and arbitrage opportunity for investors. So, our thesis output shows mixed evidence for London Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.

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Meera, Ahamed Kameel. "The Effects of Stock Delistings on Firm Value, Risk, Market Liquidity and Market Integration: With Evidence on Wealth Effects from the Stock Exchanges of Malaysia and Singapore, Using GARCH." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278898/.

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This study examines the effects of delisting on firm value, risk and market liquidity. In a world where markets are becoming increasingly integrated, delistings may prove counter productive. We use the unique event, free from company specifics, that occurred on January 2, 1990 in the stock exchanges of Singapore and Malaysia to test for the above effects. On that day, dual listed companies were required to delist from the foreign stock exchange. We also use this event to test if the Singapore and Malaysia markets are globally integrated. Since financial data is found to show persistence in volatility, we model the return generating process in a generalized autoregressive conditionally heteroskedastic (GARCH) framework that takes into consideration changing volatility. For comparison purposes, OLS and Time-Deformation models are included. The study found delistings to decrease firm value, the size of which is related to how actively the stocks were previously traded on the foreign stock exchange. Risk levels increased following delistings. Nevertheless, thinly traded stocks showed significant changes in neither firm value nor riskiness. Further evidence of new listings to increase firm value was noted. Consistent with the political motive hypothesis, delisted stocks showed an increase in post-event volume, but however, lost relative liquidity compared with other stocks. While all portfolios considered show evidence for existence of conditional heteroskedasticity, comparison with standard OLS event-study results yields similar conclusions, although the return generating models with GARCH errors result in lower abnormal return variances. As for the time-deformation model, trading volume was found to be a good proxy for rate of information flow only for smaller capitalized stocks. Correlation and regression analyses showed that the Singapore and Malaysia markets are integrated to some degree with the international markets, such that a major delistings event between both markets did not change the pricing of risk in these markets.

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Yilmaz, Isil Sevilay. "An Analysis Of Stock Splits In The Istanbul Stock Exchange." Thesis, METU, 2003. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1269380/index.pdf.

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The primary purpose of this study is to test the validity of the trading range hypothesis as a basis for stock split decisions of Turkish companies. In the first part, the liquidity effects of stock splits on Turkish stocks are examined. Second, the optimal trading ranges for different-sized firms and firms with different investor bases are determined. Finally, the main empirical question of the study is analyzed by testing whether or not Turkish firms whose share prices rise above their optimal trading ranges are more likely to split their stock compared to firms whose share prices are at or below their optimal trading ranges. The empirical findings about the level of liquidity indicate that there is a slight decline in liquidity in the post-split periods. Analysis of the relationship between firm characteristics and share prices shows that firm size has a positive effect on share prices. The effect of investor base on share prices could not be identified. Finally, the estimation of the logit model utilized in the study to determine the probability of firms to split does not reveal any statistically significant result.

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Ozdemir, Duygu. "Stock Market Liquidity Analysis: Evidence From The Istanbul Stock Exchange." Master's thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613789/index.pdf.

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The purpose of this thesis is to identify the factors playing a key role in the determination of the Turkish stock market liquidity in aggregate terms in a time series context and discuss the joint dynamics of the market-wide liquidity with its selected determinants and the trade volume. The main determinants tested are the level of return, the return volatility and the monetary stance of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. The expected positive relationship between the liquidity and the return is confirmed, while the negative effect of the volatility on liquidity appears one-week later. The behavior of various liquidity variables are also examined around the macroeconomic data announcement dates, during the 2008 financial crisis, and after the tick size change in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE). The time series dynamics between the trade volume, return, volatility and the liquidity are put forward within the Vector Autoregression analysis framework. The GARCH modeling of the return series, which is an input to the liquidity model estimations, is a byproduct of this thesis. It is observed that the return series exhibits volatility clustering, persistence, leverage effects and mean reversion. In addition, while the level of the ISE market return decreased, the volatility of the return increased during the 2008 crisis. Accordingly, EGARCH model assuming normally distributed error terms and allowing a shift in the variance during the crisis period is chosen as the best model.

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Haniff, Mohd Nizal. "Modelling intraday stock price dynamics on the Malaysian stock exchange." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2006. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54319/.

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The introduction of the Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) model in 1982 by Engle revolutionized the econometric treatment of volatility. The Generalized ARCH (GARCH) model and its variants have proved to be useful in capturing stylised facts about financial markets, which include volatility clustering, leptokurtosis in the distribution of returns, mean reversion tendencies and leverage effects. The Periodic GARCH (PGARCH) variants proposed by Bollerslev and Ghysels (1996), in particular, made it possible to explicitly incorporate the effects of periodicity in financial time series into the parameters of the volatility models. An investigation of return volatility using high frequency Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) returns data shows that the intraday volatility pattern follows the double U-shaped pattern, which is consistent with the findings of other studies on markets that are closed during the lunch hour. The study also investigates the best technique for modelling and forecasting the intraday periodicity on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), using both the jointly estimated and the two-step filtration approaches with different PGARCH structures. The results indicate that the PGARCH models produce superior model fit, better forecasting performances and superior forecast quality than the standard GARCH equivalents. However, the results suggest that Value-at-Risk (VaR) models, constructed from the PGARCH forecasts, produce poor results. This study also investigates the integrated realized volatility measure introduced by Andersen and Bollerslev (1998a), which can be constructed by summing up intraday squared returns. The results suggest that the daily integrated realized volatilities constructed using different intraday return sampling frequencies, produce superior forecasting performances for the GARCH models when compared with the results of the same models using the daily squared returns. The VaR models constructed from the GARCH forecasts and the Autoregressive and Moving Average (ARMA) forecasts appear to satisfy the requirements of the framework for interval forecast evaluation.

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Karlsson, Christopher, and Renteln Alexander von. "Stock price volatility and dividend policy: The German stock exchange." Thesis, Jönköping University, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-53018.

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The objective of this research is to analyse if there is a negative relationship between dividend policy and stock price volatility in the German stock market. The data that was collected for this research consists of the 30 biggest companies listed on the German stock exchange Deutscher Aktienindex known as DAX 30 for the period 2000-2020. Fixed effect model estimated by panel data was applied to find the results of this research. The findings showed that the main variables of dividend policy (dividend yield and payout ratio) were negatively significant correlated with stock price volatility which provides evidence for our hypothesis. The results showed that the control variable earnings volatility had a positive significant relationship with stock price volatility. However, asset growth resulted in an insignificant relationship but the rest of the control variables such as leverage, market value and free float percentage showed a significant negative relationship with stock price volatility.

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Best, Randall. "Embedding the New York Stock Exchange." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0001/MQ43637.pdf.

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Kruger, Theunis Lodewicus. "Dividend stability, dividend yield and stock returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52241.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study investigates the relationship between dividends and stock returns on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). In this mini study project a regression model is used to investigate the relationship between dividend yield portfolios and stock returns. Each of these dividend yield portfolios are further subdivided into dividend stability portfolios which together with a regression model are used to investigate the relationship between dividend stability and stock returns on the JSE. It follows from this study that there is a non-linear relationship between the risk-adjusted returns and dividend yields. A significant finding of this study is the fact that there is an inverse linear relationship between the dividend yield and average stock returns for dividend paying portfolios on the JSE. Investors on the JSE appear to place a premium on capital gains as opposed to dividends. It follows from this study that there is an inverse correlation between dividend stability and the risk-adjusted return with the beta coefficient increasing as dividend stability decreases. Within a particular yield portfolio, it is evident that higher systematic risk is associated with shares with unstable dividend yielding histories. It is clear from the results that this dividend signalling is not limited to high yielding stocks alone. As dividends are not entirely controlled by managers, a low stable dividend yield could signal a low exposure to systematic risk to outsiders.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie studie word die verband tussen dividende en aandeelopbrengste op die Johannesburgse Effektebeurs ondersoek. 'n Regressiemodel is in hierdie mini werkstuk gebruik om die verwantskap tussen dividend opbrengsportfolios en aandeelopbrengs te ondersoek. Elk van hierdie opbrengsportfolios is vervolgens verder verdeel in dividendstabiliteitsportfolios wat tesame met 'n regressiemodel gebruik is om die verband tussen dividendstabiliteit en aandeelopbrengs te bepaal. Dit volg uit hierdie studie dat daar 'n nie-lineêre verband tussen risiko aangepaste aandeelopbrengs en dividendopbrengs bestaan. 'n Noemenswaardige bevinding is die inverse lineêre verwantskap tussen dividend en gemiddelde aandeelopbrengs vir dividend betalende aandele op die Johannesburgse Effektebeurs. Dit blyk asof beleggers op die Johannesburgse Effektebeurs 'n premie plaas op kapitaalgroei ten koste van dividendopbrengs. Dit volg ook uit hierdie studie dat daar 'n inverse korrelasie is tussen dividendstabiliteit en risiko aangepaste aandeelopbrengs met die beta koëffissiënte wat toeneem soos dividendstabiliteit afneem. Binne 'n spesifieke dividendopbrengsportfolio is dit duidelik dat hoër sistematiese risiko geassosieer word met onstabiele historiese dividendopbrengste. Dit volg uit die resultate dat hierdie inligtingoordrag deur middel van dividende, nie beperk is tot hoë dividendopbrengs aandele nie. Aangesien dividende nie uitsluitlik deur bestuurders beheer word nie, kan 'n aandeel met lae maar stabiele dividendopbrengs, 'n boodskap van lae blootstelling aan sistematiese risiko aan die mark oordra.

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Chitenderu, Tafadzwa Thelmah. "Testing random walk hypothesis in the stock market prices: evidence from South Africa's stock exchange (2000- 2011)." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1006931.

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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange market was tested for the existence of the random walk hypothesis using All Share Index (ALSI) and time series data for the period between 2000 and 2011. The traditionally used methods, the unit root tests and autocorrelation test were employed first and they all confirmed that during the period under consideration, the JSE price index followed the random walk process. In addition, the ARIMA model was built and it was found that the ARIMA ( 1, 1, 1) was the model that best fitted the data in question. Furthermore, residual tests to help determine whether the residuals of the estimated equation show random walk process in the series were done. It was found that the ALSI resembles series that follow random walk hypothesis with strong evidence of RWH indicated in the conducted forecasting tests which showed vast variance between forecasted values and actual indicating little or no forecasting strength in the series. To further validate the findings in this research, the variance ratio test was conducted under heteroscedasticity and it also strongly corroborated that the existence of a random walk process cannot be rejected in the JSE. It was concluded that since the returns follow the random walk hypothesis, it can be said that JSE is efficient in the weak form level of the EMH and therefore opportunities of making excess returns based on out- performing the market is ruled out and is merely a game of chance. In other words, it will be of no use to choose stocks based on information about recent trends in stock prices.

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Kayacetin, Volkan Nuri. "Cross-section Of Average Stock Returns On The Istanbul Stock Exchange." Thesis, METU, 2004. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1088756/index.pdf.

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The aim of this master thesis is to examine the explanatory power of some popular company-specific factors for the cross-section of average stock returns in the Istanbul Stock Exchange (ISE) for a period from 1992 to 2001. Factors tested in this thesis are firm size (MVE), book-to-market value of equity (BMR), debt-to-equity ratio (DER), sales-to-price ratio (SPR), gross profit-price ratio (GPPR) and dividend yield (DY).

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Atsin, Achiapo Jessica Lisette. "Analysis of calendar effects and market anomalies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1020372.

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This study sought to empirically investigate the existence of calendar effects and market anomalies on the JSE using monthly and daily closing prices of the ALSI, Top 40, Mid Cap and Small Cap index; as well as, daily closing prices on the Value, Growth and Dividend Plus index during the sample period 2002 – 2013. The anomalies analysed are the January effect, the weekend effect, the size effect, the value effect, and the dividend yield effect. The empirical analysis uses a number of MSAR with a different number of regimes and lag orders. The results from the investigation of the January effect show the non-existence of the January effect and the value effect on the JSE during the periods 2002 – 2013 and 2004 – 2013, respectively. However, the weekend effect was found significant in the Mid Cap and the Small Cap index, and the size effect was also found significant during the same period 2002 - 2013. Finally the results from a Granger causality test concluded that there is a relationship between the returns on the Dividend Plus index and the ALSI, effectively proving the existence of the dividend yield effect on the JSE between 2006 and 2013. Additionally, the anomalies found imply the opportunity for investors to make returns above buy-and-hold.

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Goune, Steven E. "The challenge for liquidity in small stock exchanges and trading portals : the case of the Belgian Stock Exchange." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33548.

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Thesis (M.B.A.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-53).
The world-wide consolidation in the electronic trading industry has provided evidence that small exchanges and trading portals need to deliver more than sophisticated technology, streaming quotes and market data. In order to deliver value and survive, they need to provide liquidity. Noteworthy among the most recent industry challenges is the dismal performance of exchanges like the Belgian Stock Exchange that finally caved in to the inevitable merger with the London Stock Exchange. The Italian exchange took similar action and so did a number of other small exchanges in the European Union. This development has exacerbated the debate over the need for small stock exchanges and portals to exist unless they can provide both superior technology and liquidity. This paper proposes to examine the performance of the Belgian stock exchange and a select group of portals trading Belgian equities through the metric of liquidity access for fostering trade execution and capital flows. Illiquidity and the dislocation of a number of securities traded on the Belgian exchange are examined using transaction costs and the price impact of trading (as opposed to just asset prices) to explain such lack of liquidity.
Concurrently, the intervention of aggregators of liquidity pools and the rising influence of noise traders (hedge funds) are analyzed to provide a framework for understanding the mechanisms used to attract liquidity. This serves to determine whether portals may continue to attract large pools of liquidity. In closing, we suggest that capital assets are probably not mispriced in markets served by small exchanges, and thus arbitrage opportunities do not exist. Other factors related to timing, anticipation effects and outliers are more significant in determining whether liquidity providers initiate in those markets. The nature of the economies that these exchanges are designed to support is also a contributing factor to the dislocation and disintermediation of capital demand from local firms and truly large global organizations.
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Yuan, Chunming. "Essays on exchange rate behavior and financial anomalies." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1621833961&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Chisadza, Moses W. "The role of cross-listings in establishing a SADC regional stock exchange." Thesis, uwc, 2013. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_4766_1380708510.

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Lui, Man Chee Ian. "The myths and beliefs of foreign investors in Asian emerging stock markets : the case of Malaysia /." View thesis View thesis, 2001. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20030506.132049/index.html.

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Thesis (D.B.A.) -- University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2001.
Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, University of Western Sydney, Nepean, 2001. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ohlson, Per. "Herd Behavior on the Swedish Stock Exchange ." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Accounting and Finance, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-12426.

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In this study the Stockholm Stock Exchange in Sweden is examined for herd behavior with a market wide approach. Three models, one created by Christie and Huang (1995) and the others created by Chang, Cheng and Khorana (1999), are applied to detect herd behavior from 1998 to 2009. Herd behavior is found in up-going market days, measuring on daily bases over the entire time frame. When breaking down the test period into annual sub-periods, herd behavior is evident in the bullish markets of 2005 and 2007. In days with the most extreme market movements herd behavior is found in large cap stocks but not in the small cap. The result indicates a tendency of an increasing level of herd behavior over the measured period, which can be attributed to the increased influence of institutional ownership. Moreover, the data was adjusted for thinly traded stocks and the result is contradictive to previous studies. The reduction of thinly traded stocks seems to have an increasing effect on the herd-measure, implying that the presence of thinly traded stocks puts a negative bias on the herd-measures.

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Höijer, Mattias, Martin Lejdelin, and Patrik Lindén. "Price Drift on the Stockholm Stock Exchange." Thesis, Jönköping University, Jönköping International Business School, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-635.

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This paper examines whether the phenomena of price drift around quarterly earnings re-leases exist among firms listed on the large cap. list at the Stockholm Stock Exchange for a time period ranging from the first quarter of 2003 to the second quarter of 2006. It fur-thermore examines the ability of the variables forecast error, relative to analyst’s estimates, and firms’ size to explain the variation in price drift among firms.

A sample of some 30 firms were drawn in the first three quarters of each year between 2003 and 2005, for the year of 2006 only the fist two quarters were included in the study. For each quarter all firms were classified into three different portfolios on the basis of earnings deviations relative to mean analyst’s estimates (forecast error). The returns for each firm in all portfolios were investigated during 20 days post- and pre quarterly earnings release date, resulting in an event window totaling 41 days. In order to clear out effects from general market movements the Capital Asset Pricing Model, CAPM, was used in which betas were estimated for all firms each quarter.

The findings from this study indicate that price drift, measured by cumulative abnormal re-turn, occur for firms with both negative forecast error as well as positive. For firms with positive error, statistically significant positive price drift was found for both the pre- and post period. As for the firms with earnings below analyst’s mean estimates, negative prean-nouncement drift was statistically supported.

The ability of firms size and forecast error to explain the variation in price drift on a stock level was very weak, R2 measures of below 5% was reported. However, forecast error was a strongly significant independent variable in the context of the regressions run for both pre- and post-announcement drift. The firms below the lower market cap. quartile in the sample show, on average, lower pre-announcement drift than the firms belonging in the largest quartile.

Concerning market efficiency among the large cap. firms the price drift found is an indica-tion of market inefficiency both it terms of the semi strong and the strong form. However, care should be taken before generalizing the results from this study but. Possible misspeci-fication of the equilibrium return model will skew the price drift measurement. Moreover, speculation is not explicitly controlled for in this test. Finally, this study is done within a li-mited time span; hence generalization over time is not possible

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Tekel, Onur. "Business Failure Predictions In Istanbul Stock Exchange." Thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610621/index.pdf.

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This study aims to develop business failure prediction models using the data of selected firms from ISE markets. The sample data comprise ten selected financial ratios for 27 non-going concerns (failed businesses) and paired 27 going concerns. Two non-parametric classification methods are used in the study: Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Decision Trees. The classification results show that there is equilibrium in the classification of the training samples by the models, but ANN model outperform the decision tree model in the classification of the testing samples. Further, the potential usefulness of ANN and Decision Tree type data mining techniques in the analysis of complex and non-linear relationships are observed.

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Tatikunta, Raju. "TraGent : a multi agent stock exchange model /." Available to subscribers only, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1240702281&sid=18&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lee, Ruben. "Market-making on the UK Stock Exchange." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.256825.

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Tse, Wai-chun Quesifer, and 謝慧珍. "PRC enterprises listing in the stock exchange." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1994. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31266253.

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Cai, Xiaowu. "Market microstructure of the London Stock Exchange." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.403044.

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Al, Zoubi Tariq. "Corporate cash-holding decisions : Amman stock exchange." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/7360.

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Using a panel data analysis of a sample of 80 listed non-financial Jordanian firms during the period from 2000 to 2011, we investigated the corporate cash-holding decision. The firm’s decision to hold cash has come to the fore in last two or three years as a result of the recent global financial crisis, and the impact that this has had on the firms’ ability to raise funds from external sources. There is evidence in the US, for example, that firms have increased their holdings of cash as a result of increasing constraints from external sources. This current study therefore examines this issue from the point of view of a developing economy. We started by investigating the empirical determinants of corporate cash holdings; the results showed that firm size and growth opportunities have no significant effect on corporate cash-holding decisions, while firm’s cash flow, leverage, and liquid assets substitute have a significant negative effect on cash-holding decisions, and profitability and cash dividends have a positive effect on cash-holding decisions. Then we investigated empirically how cash-holding affects the value of corporate firms. Based on Fama and French’s (1998) valuation model and Faulkender and Wang’s (2006) model, the results showed that the marginal value of each Jordanian Dinar (JD) is valued at a discounted value of 0.41 JD; with higher leverage the marginal value of cash is declining, with a higher level of cash the marginal value of cash is increasing and, finally, cash dividends have no significant effect on shareholders’ value. We also investigated empirically how a group of explanatory variables affect a firm’s debt ratio by focusing on the liquidity variable. Results showed that the total debt ratio is positively affected by firm size and is negatively affected by growth opportunities, profitability, assets tangibility and total liquidity, cash, and non-cash liquidity. The long-term debt ratio is positively affected by firm size, non-debt tax shield, asset tangibility, total liquidity, cash, and non-cash liquidity, while the long-term debt ratio is negatively affected by growth opportunities and profitability. For the short-term debt models, the debt ratio is negatively affected by firm size, asset tangibility, and liquidity in its different forms. An investigation into the speed of adjustment showed that Jordanian firms quickly adjusted the total and long-term debt ratio, while they do not have an optimal or target short-term debt ratio.

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Snyman, Hendrik Andries. "Investigating momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/6613.

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Thesis (MScEng (Industrial Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2011.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Applying the Industrial Engineering systems approach, this dissertation utilised the theories and propositions of previous studies to argue (model) the cause of financial herd behaviour and the subsequent momentum effect. From this, a hypothesis was postulated to test: whether momentum is a common attribute amongst top performing shares, whether technical analysis indicators can better identify the phenomenon, and whether the return from these shares would justify momentum as a viable investment strategy. A unique experiment derived from previous academic studies was adapted to explore the degree of the momentum phenomenon. This was done by ranking shares according to both technical analysis as well as pure price performance momentum criteria. Returns were translated as a rank in relation to the market as a whole, thereby minimising any effects that different market periods could have on a momentum return relationship. The degree of the relationship was evaluated by applying the alternative Spearman Rank Order Correlation Co-efficient in conjunction with a permutation test to determine the statistical significance of any trends. The viability of the phenomenon as an investment strategy was gauged by comparing annualised average returns against both the market capitalisation weighted JSE All Share Index as well as against an un-weighted representation of the market. The results revealed a seemingly unambiguous co-dependence between momentum and return with statistically significant trends being ever present. Applying the maximum taxes and trading costs revealed that the highest ranked momentum shares did indeed outperform both market benchmarks from the period of January 1990 to August 2009, suggesting the validity of the philosophy as an investment strategy. The outcome of the study in part rejected the null hypothesis, as technical indicators were unable to identify future top performing shares better, with price performance momentum measures delivering the superior returns. Future studies may include optimising the various technical indicators towards the JSE rather than using generic settings. Other interesting topics could include combining momentum with other investment strategies to investigate synergy and further pinpointing the source of the phenomenon. Over the past number of years, tighter controls and monitoring of investments has resulted in the documentation of the individual number of shareholders who are buying and selling shares. Utilising this data over the next number of years, an experiment could attempt to relate the number of individual investors trading in a particular share to herd behaviour and the subsequent momentum effect.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die verhandeling, binne die bedryfsingenieursstelsels benadering, gebruik teorieë en voorstelle van vorige studies om die gevolge van finansiële gedrag en die gevolglike momentum effek te bespreek. Uit die analise is ‘n voorstel saamgestel om die volgende te toets:Is momentum ‘n algemene verskynsel by aandele wat goed presteer, en kan tegniese analitiese indikatore die verskynsel beter verklaar, en dui die opbrengs van die aandele daarop dat momentum ‘n bruikbare beleggingsstrategie is. ‘n Unieke eksperiment uit vorige studies is aangepas om die aard van die momentum verskynsel te ondersoek. Dit was gedoen deur aandele volgens beide tegniese analise asook suiwer prestasie momentum kriteria te klassifiseer. Opbrengste is met die hele mark in konteks geplaas om sodoende enige impak van verskillende mark tye op die momentum opbrengs verhouding te elimineer. Die verband is opgestel deur die alternatiewe “Spearman Rank Order Correlation koëffisiënt” saam met permutasie toetse te gebruik om die statistiese belangrikheid van enige neigings uit te wys. Die geldigheid van die verskynsel as ‘n beleggingsstrategie is gemeet deur jaarlikse gemiddelde opbrengste teen beide die markkapitalisasie geweeg teen die JSE Alle Aandele Indeks sowel as ‘n ongeweegde verteenwoordiging van die mark te bepaal. Die resultate dui op ‘n interafhanklikheid tussen momentum en opbrengste met statistiese neigings altyd teenwoordig. Deur die maksimum belasting en verhandelingskoste toe te pas wys dit dat die hoogste momentum uitgewyste aandele die markriglyne uitpresteer het van Januarie 1990 tot Augustus 2009 wat die geldigheid van die benadering as ‘n beleggingsstrategie bevestig. Die studie verwerp die nul hipotese gedeeltelik in die sin dat dit nie toekomstige top presterende aandele kan uitwys nie, maar aan die ander kant gee prysprestasie momentum meting wel buitegewone opbrengs. Toekomstige studies mag die optimisering van verskeie tegniese indikatore van die JSE insluit, ‘n kombinasie van momentum met ander beleggingsstrategieë gebruik, en verder die bron van die verskynsel vas pen. Oor die afgelope aantal jare het beter beheer en die monitoring van beleggings die dokumentasie van individuele aandeelhouers moontlik gemaak. Hieride data sou kon gebruik word as ‘n toets om die korrelasie tussendie aantal aandeelhouers wat ‘n spesifieke aandeel verhandel en tropgedrag te bepaal en om dit te gebruik om die momentum effek beter te verklaar.

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Alvarez, Ana Catarina Silva Dias. "The social stock exchange: a quantitative exploration." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10309.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
We introduce the Social Stock Exchange (SSE), by presenting its work, structure and brief history. The main goal of the SSE is to promote accountability and transparency in the relationship between the donors (Social Investors) and NGOs, which allows for a privileged access to data and information about the projects listed. Hence, this study exploits all the information made available by the SSE and constructs two original models in order to measure the effectiveness of the projects listed in the SSE in a transparent, verified and mensurable manner. Furthermore, these two measures are a first attempt to overcome two main challenges concerning the study and the practice of NGO/NPO effectiveness: the ambiguity of the term “effectiveness” and the lack of empirical evidence.

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Moodley, Tashinee. "Fundamental momentum on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/22778.

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Financial market anomalies are constant subjects of debate because of their devotion form the foundational financial theories. Fama and French (2008) referred to the momentum effect as the premier anomaly. Thus, this study sought to apply the concept of momentum to examine three investment strategies. The first strategy was price momentum, an existing investment strategy but which was used as a comparison to the returns of the second and third strategies. The second strategy applied momentum to return on equity, operating cash flow and earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation, whilst the third strategy combined stocks with momentum in both stock price and respective fundamental variable.Using a non-probability sampling method, a total of 109 stock listed on the JSE over the period 1999-2010 were tested. Momentum in stock price and respective fundamentals was used to rank stocks into quintiles. The viability of each investment strategy was measured by comparing its average and risk adjusted returns to the market.The results revealed that fundamental momentum can beat market returns, with the highest amount of significant differences found using momentum in return on equity. The combination strategy also reported results of beating the market, with the higest amount of significant differences found using the 12 month fundamental momentum combined with 6 month price momentum.
Dissertation (MBA)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Kumi, Eric. "The Ghana Stock Exchange: Concentration, Diversification, Liquidity." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5809.

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Analysts have foiled that concentration of portfolio weights affects portfolio risk. This is a unique feature in small markets whore they tend to be concentrated in few stocks and the Charm Sunk Exchange (GSE ) falls in that category. As a result portfolios based on the Ghana All Share index are highly concentrated. The risk in a portfolio is mainly attributed to Covariance and weighting structure. Enough cannot be done about the covariance structure but the weighting structure can be controlled since it depends mainly on investment choices. The weighting structure determines the degree of concentration of a portfolio. The term concentration refers to the extent to which portfolio weights skew away from equally weighted distribution of portfolio weights. As at September 2009, the Ghana All Share index has about five (5) of the total of thirty-five (3.5) in the index accounting for about 82.25% of the index weight. Concentration can be measured using the Herfindahl-Hirsclanan index (HHI) or Richard Roll measure (RRC). Diversification is (nmfirned with generation of returns from different sources. The iraditional method of measuring diversification has fallen short of vital, is usually expected hence the introduction of the new measure, portfolio diversification index or PDT. Liquidity measures the effect the quantity of stocks traded has on the market price of stocks. Liquidity varies from time to time; hence its importance as a source of risk for investors. The primary of fjective of this protect is to determine the significance of concentration in portiailio risk, particularly from the Ghanaian perspective. Furthermore, we will pleasing diversification ming the new measure and finally eml withshort review on liquidity in stock markets.

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Bowler, W. Matthew. "Market timing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10268.

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The concept of market timing is hardly new. Theoretical work on the predictability of return stretches back for over a century, with substantial empirical work emerging from the 1960s onwards. This study aims to extend the literature by focusing on whether it is possible for an investor, utilising quantitative analytical techniques with available information, to utilise market timing to outperform the JSE ALSI.

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Standifird, Stephen Scott. "Establishing reputation on the Warsaw Stock Exchange /." view abstract or download file of text, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948029.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 1999.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 117-123). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p9948029.

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Wu, Di. "The New York Stock Exchange/Euronext merge." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3309.

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Masole, Mothusi. "Development of a database for listed companies on the Botswana Stock Exchange." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52187.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.
A database on South African industrial companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange called FIN01 was created by the Graduate School of Business (USB), University of Stellenbosch, to capture the various companies' financial data from 1970 to date. FIN01 database is being updated to capture financial data of listed companies from other African countries. Against the background, the purpose of the study project was to update the University database (FIN01) by creating a database for listed Botswana Stock Exchange companies. The creation of the database required gathering and analysis of information of the various Botswana companies. Before the information from the Annual Reports could be captured into the main database, it was captured into Excel created spreadsheets. This information was captured under the respective workbooks as created for the cash flow statements, income statements and balance sheet items. To conform to the requirements of the FIN 01 database, the Botswana companies were allocated codes. The summarised data was then transferred to the main USB database (FIN01). A thorough analysis on performance of the various companies was then carried out. This was done through trend analysis, common size analysis and ratio analysis. Problems were encountered during the process of data capturing and analysis. These included unavailability of Annual Reports, various different reporting formats and the standard Excel spreadsheets provided. The various companies' inconsistency in reporting was further reflected in the non-reporting of turnover and share prices by most of the listed companies. However, the creation and incorporation of the listed Botswana companies was a success. It is recommended that the project be continued as an ongoing process. The information should be updated on a yearly basis. Companies should be encouraged to continue sending the Annual Reports to the University. The companies should in return get regular feedback on key performance indicators as reflected in the database.

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