MARIAMPOLSKI's book successfully meets its stated promise of a comprehensive guide to qualitative market research. The author has taken a cookbook approach to the discipline and provides a considerable amount of forms and checklists to support that approach. The highlight of this book is its ability to provide a recipe for qualitative research methodology in market research. Because of the auth...

This paper investigates the value-relevance of earnings and book value over 20 years of institutional transition in China, from 1991 to 2010, and explores the suitability of Fair Value Accounting (FVA) in the emerging capital market. In contrast to findings in the mature market, we find that the combined value-relevance of earnings and book value of listed firms in China has significantly incre...

Dividend Policy is one of the most important financial decisions that managers encounter. This study contributes to the literature of dividend and empirical research investigating the effects of dynamic factors in Tehran Stock Exchange. Based on some criteria, the study contains 133 listed firms over a 10-year period from 2001 to 2010. To test the research hypotheses, this study uses Fixed Effe...

We analyze the cross-sectional differences in the tail risk of equity returns and identify the drivers of tail risk. We provide two statistical procedures to test the hypothesis of cross-sectional downside tail shape homogeneity. An empirical study of 230 US non-financial firms shows that between 2008 and 2011 the cross-sectional tail shape is homogeneous across equity returns. The heterogeneit...

The skewness of the cross-sectional distribution of book-to-market ratios is shown to be an important state variable. It varies through time in correlation with the business cycle and with indicators of investor sentiment. When times are ‘good’ a tail of low book-to-market stocks causes a left skew in the distribution. In ‘bad’ times high book-to-market stocks make the distribution more symmetr...

In this paper, we investigate the buy and sell arrival process in a limit order book market. Using an intensity framework allows to estimate the simultaneous buy and sell intensity and to derive a continuous-time measure for the buy-sell pressure in the market. Based on limit order book data from the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), we show that the buysell pressure is particularly influenced b...

This paper explores whether a “value” investing strategy based upon different specifications of the residual income valuation model is riskier than a "growth" investing strategy. The paper motivates such an investigation by noting that, consistent with previous empirical work, the Ohlson (1995) model undervalues (overvalues) low (high) book-to-market stocks, whilst the Feltham-Ohlson model unde...

the conventional theory of adverse selection is not supported by most of the empirical works. these studies conclude that low-risk individuals demand more insurance services than high-risks. they refer to this situation as advantageous selection theory. this theory states that loss ratio of insureds may be lower than the population loss ratio while the conventional theory of adverse selection c...