International Journal of Managerial Finance: Volume 8 Issue 4

Are informed traders reluctant to bear price risk or execution risk?

Ryan Garvey, Fei Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine US equity traders’ use of market orders versus price contingent orders with respect to information content.

Determinants of ownership structure and performance of seasoned equity offerings: Evidence from Chinese stock markets

Sazali Abidin, Krishna Reddy, Liehui Chen

Since the initiation of the share split reform by the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) in 2005, the private placement has become the major source of raising equity…

Corporate governance mechanisms, accounting results and stock valuation in Canada

Sylvie Berthelot, Claude Francoeur, Réal Labelle

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance practices or mechanisms and firm value, as measured by accounting and market data.

Bad debt provisions of financial institutions: Dilemma of China's corporate governance regime

Yuan George Shan, Lei Xu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the level of bad debt provisions of financial institutions is affected by internal governance mechanisms (IGMs) from the…

Modeling moneyness volatility in measuring exchange rate volatility

Ariful Hoque, Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a model to measure foreign exchange (FX) rate volatility accurately. The FX rate volatility forecasting is a crucial endeavour in…

Tournament behaviour in Malaysian managed funds

Vikash Ramiah, Imad Moosa, Ben O'Neill, Milica Backulja, Amel Yacoub, Terry Hallahan, John Vaz

The structure of the Malaysian fund market presents a unique setting in which to examine behavioural and cultural differences in the performance of fund managers. The purpose of…