International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
 Issue 15
 May, 2008
 
Stock Markets Returns and Volatilities: A Global Comparison
Chiaku Chukwuogor
7-22
Finance and Theory of Knowledge
Jose Rigoberto Parada Daza
23-35
Identifying Regime Shifts in Malaysian Stock Market Returns
Mohd Tahir Ismail and Zaidi Isa
36-49
 
 
Short-Sale Constraint and Return Asymmetries in Taiwan Stock Market
Ou Hu, Zhaodan Huang and Bih-shuang Liao
50-54
Determinants of Dividend Payout Ratios-A Study of Indian Information Technology Sector
Kanwal Anil and Sujata Kapoor
55-63
Asset and Lessee Heterogeneity as Determinants of Leasing Contract Maturity Structure
Konstantinos Drakos and Eleftherios Goulas
64-69
The Day of the Week Effect Patterns on Stock Market Return and Volatility:
Evidence for the Athens Stock Exchange
Dimitris Kenourgios and Aristeidis Samitas
70-81
Globalization of Turkey’s Banking Sector: Determinants of Foreign Bank Penetration in Turkey
Ahmet Faruk Aysan and Şanlı Pınar Ceyhan
82-94
Bivariate Causality Analysis between FDI Inflows and Economic Growth in Ghana
Frimpong Joseph Magnus and Oteng-Abayie Eric Fosu
95-104
Could the Stock Indexes, Country Risk Proxies and ADRs have Anticipated the Crises in
Argentina, Brazil and Mexico in the 90´s       
Franco Parisi and Roberto Friedmann
105-115
Conflict of Interest in Chartered Bank Security Underwritings: Evidence from Canadian Bond Performance   
Greg Hebb
116-127
 
 
EMU Effects on Stock Markets: From Home Bias to Euro Bias
Maela Giofré
128-150
 
 
Forecasting World Stock Markets Volatility
Abdullah Yalama and Guven Sevil
151-166
 
 
International Asset Pricing Models: A Forecasting Evaluation
Hong Wu
167-176
 
 
Organisational Structure and Development of Structure Relationships with SMFs:
A Study of the Strategies of Tunisian Banks
Salma Hachicha Elleuch
177-192
 
 
Predicting Corporate Failure of Malaysia’s Listed Companies:
Comparing Multiple Discriminant Analysis, Logistic Regression and the Hazard Model
Nur Adiana Hiau Abdullah, Abd. Halim, Hamilton Ahmad and Rohani Md. Rus
193-209
 
 
Performance and Trading Characteristics of German Passively Managed ETFs
Gerasimos G. Rompotis
210-223
 
 
Time Series Prediction of Dollar\Euro Exchange Rate Index
Mike P. Hanias and Panayiotis G. Curtis
224-231
 
 
Reverse Money Substitution Process: Turkey Case
Erman Erbaykal, Burak Darıcı and Özgür Kadıoğlu
232-240
 
 
Empirical Analysis of the UAE Stock Market Volatility
Sami Khedhiri and Naeem Muhammad
241-252
 
 
International Acquisitions: Strategic Considerations
H. Donald Hopkins
253-262
 
 
Monetary Policy, Foreign Exchange Intervention, and the Exchange Rate: The Case of Japan
Lian An and Wei Sun
263-275
 
 
Monetary Transmission Mechanism in Fiji and PNG
Ahmad, Shabbir
276-282
 
 
The Analysis of the Interdependence Structure in International Financial Markets by Graphical Models
Allali Abdelwahab, Oueslati Amor and Trabelsi Abdelwahed
283-298
 
 
On Stock Selection Skills and Market Timing Abilities of Mutual Fund Managers in India
Sanjay Sehgal and Manoj Jhanwar
299-309
 
 
Structural Adjustment, Financial Sector Development and Economic Prosperity in Nigeria
O. Felix Ayadi, Esther .O. Adegbite and Funso .S. Ayadi
310-323