The main goal of this paper is to propose a new approach for efficiency measurement and ranking of stocks. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) is one of the popular and applicable techniques that can be used to reach this goal. However, there are always concerns about negative data and uncertainty in financial markets. Since the classical DEA models cannot deal with negative and imprecise values, i...

I analyze the effect of monetary policy actions on the cross-section of equity returns. Based on earlier theoretical work for the monetary transmission mechanism one can argue that changes in monetary policy should produce differentiated effects on firms and stocks with different characteristics. By using different portfolio sorts the results show that the impact of monthly changes in the Feder...

This study examined the role of positive and negative discretionary accrual management in the stock price impact. A sample of 66 firms listed in Tehran Stock Exchange was selected for a ten-year period (2008-2017). Accrual management was found to lead to significant changes in stock prices, and uninformed investors incur trading costs caused by the stock price impact. The results showed two key...

common stock is the most important and popular instrument in our capital market. every day, large volumes of stocks are traded on the tehran stock exchange and their ownership is transferred from one investor (natural or fictitious persons) to others. 'sales' is the term commonly used for this act in capital market and among investors. our hypothesis is that the common stocks could be...

this study examines the role of growth and value stocks in liquidity and tobin's q ratio, and also the validity of claims existing difference between tobin q ratio of the two types of stocks in companies accepted in tehran stock exchange has been examined. the study period is between the years 1381 to 1390. we use pooled panel-data regression and egls and gmm methods to estimate the model ...

This study examines the effect of international listing on the conditional return distribution of Australian stocks in the domestic market. We conduct an intervention analysis in an EGARCH framework to measure any shift in the parameters describing the daily return generating process. All fifteen stocks that were listed on the major U.S. exchanges (NYSE and NASDAQ) as American Depositary Receip...

Investor decision making has always been affected by two factors: risk and returns. Considering risk, the investor expects an acceptable return on the investment decision horizon. Accordingly, defining goals and constraints for each investor can have unique prioritization. This paper develops several approaches to multi criteria portfolio optimization. The maximization of stock returns, the pow...

This study examines statistical regularities among three components of stocks and indices: daytime (trading hour) return, overnight (off-hour session) return, and total (close-toclose) return. Owing to the fact that the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) has the longest non-trading periods amongmajor markets, the TWSE is selected to explore the correlation among the three components and compare it wi...

There have been several efforts in the literature to extract as much information as possible from the financial networks. Most of the research has been concerned about the hierarchical structures, clustering, topology and also the behavior of the market network; but not a notable work on the network filtration exists. This paper proposes a stock market filtering model using the correlation - ba...