Cheap-stock tunneling in US rights offerings: empirical evidence and policy implications

Human Rights in US Foreign Policy

Socially responsible investing and stock performance: New empirical evidence for the US and European stock markets

This paper empirically examines the theoretically ambivalent relationship between socially responsible investing (SRI) and stock performance. It contributes to the existing literature by considering both the US and the entire European stock markets and by using consistent world-wide corporate sustainability performance data. Our portfolio analysis from 1998 to 2009 is based on the common four-f...

Policy risks, technological risks and stock returns: New evidence from the US stock market ¬リニ

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Stock returns Policy risks Technological risks US stock market This study examines the role of policy and technological risk on U.S. stock returns. The results will highlight the effect of economic policy uncertainty on stock returns, given that such uncertainty rose to historically high levels after the recession of 2007–2009. In our case, uncertainty is related...

“Salience and Taxation: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications”

This paper presents evidence that consumers underreact to taxes that are not salient and characterizes the welfare consequences of tax policies when agents make such optimization errors. The empirical evidence is based on two complementary strategies. First, we conducted an experiment at a grocery store posting tax inclusive prices for 750 products subject to sales tax for a three week period. ...

Petrochemical Products Market and Stock Market Returns: Empirical Evidence from Tehran Stock Exchange

While the relationship between stock market return and oil price is of great interest to researchers, previous studies do not investigate stock market return with petrochemical products market. In this paper, we analyzed the relationship between prices of main petrochemical products and stock returns of petrochemical companies in Tehran stock exchange. Using a panel data model and GLS estimatio...