An oligopoly model with endogenous sunk costs illustrates the trade off between ex ante extraction of oligopoly rents and market entry of firms in the mobile telecommunications industry. Competitive bidding for radio frequency licences provides scope for setting market structure endogenously: the higher the licence fee, the lower the number of competitive firms sustained by the market. High lic...

The literature has so far focused on the risk-return tradeoff in equity markets and ignored alternative risky assets. This paper examines the presence and significance of an intertemporal relation between expected return and risk in the foreign exchange market. The paper provides new evidence on the intertemporal capital asset pricing model by using high-frequency intraday data on currency and ...

This paper attempts to provide large sample evidence of opportunistic related party transactions in China where economic institutions, legal system and corporate structures are conducive to such dealings. We found that firms belonging to a corporate group report abnormally high levels of related party sales when they have incentives to manage earnings to avoid being delisted, or prior to issuin...

One of the main functionalities of capital market is to improve liquidityin the market which provides security for the investors. Mutual funds aremodern financial institutions which are designed with the aim of collectingfunds from investors and devote them to buy a variety of securities inorder to mitigate investment risks, exploit the economies of scale andfinally create a reasonable return f...

We investigate the risk–return trade-off on US and European stock markets. non-linear with a special eye to tails of returns using quantile regressions. first consider market portfolio. find that is significantly positive at upper tail (0.9 quantile), where large excess returns. The as expected from asset pricing models. For lower (0.1 for negative returns, negative. Additionally, median (0.5 i...

Wben several investors with different risk aversions trade competitively in a capital market, the allocation of wealth fluctuates randomly among them and acts as a state variable against which each market participant will want to hedge. This hedging motive complicates the investors' portfolio choice and the equilibrium in the capital market. This article features two investors, with the same de...