In this paper, the authors examine the impacts of large price changes (or shocks) on the abnormal returns (ARs) of a set of 39 national stock indices. Their initial results support returns continuations for both positive and negative shocks in line with prior results. After controlling for market size, their findings provide support for over-reaction, return continuations and market efficiency,...

The workshop brought together a group of acknowledged experts to reassess this extraordinary conflict and the unique referenda to which it gave rise. The experts included historians, political scientists and sociologists and came from Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Oxford and London. On day one it: (1) placed the conflict in its historical context; (2) examined the supporters and opponents of con...