International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
 Issue 22
 December, 2008
 
Local Bias of Investors in Sweden
7-25
Taylan Mavruk
Morocco & US Equity Markets Linkage after FTA Signature Implications for International Portfolio Diversification
26-37
Achraf Boujir and Abdelmounaim Lahrech
 
 
Asymmetric Shocks and Exchange Rate Regimes in East Asia
38-48
Wei Sun and Lian An
 
 
Macroeconomic Factors, the APT and the Istanbul Stock Market
49-57
Turgut Türsoy, Nil Günsel and Husam Rjoub
 
The Comparative Productivity of the Foreign-Owned Companies in Turkey: A Malmquist Productivity Index Approach
58-65
Eyup Basti and Ahmet Akin
 
 
Micro and Macro Determinants of Bank Fragility in North Cyprus Economy
66-82
Nil Gunsel
 
The Link Between Export and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence from Nigeria
83-91
E. O. Ogunleye and R. K. Ayeni
 
 
The Effect of Board Characteristics on Foreign Ownership: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan
92-105
Andy Chien
 
 
 
Liquidity Provision of Futures Markets
106-121
Chien-Chung Nieh, Matthew C. Chang, Woon K. Wong and Shi-jie Jiang
 
 
 
The Role of Market Makers on the Taiwan Options Markets
122-134
Matthew C. Chang and Woon K. Wong
 
 
Value-at-Risk for Long and Short Positions of Asian Stock Markets
135-143
Anthony H. Tu, Woon K. Wong and Matthew C. Chang
 
 
 
Compensation, Corporate Governance and Owner Shareholding: Theory and Evidence from Family Ownership
144-161
Meiping Chen and Kun-Chin Lee
 
 
 
The Determinants of Wealth Gains in Greek Takeover Bids
162-177
Dimitris Kyriazis and George Diacogiannis
 
 
 
Modeling and Forecasting of Realized Volatility Based on High-Frequency Data: Evidence from Taiwan
178-191
Huimin Chung, Chin-Sheng Huang and Tseng-Chan Tseng
 
 
 
Post-Merger Performance of Acquiring Firms from Different Industries in India
192-204
Pramod Mantravadi and A Vidyadhar Reddy
 
 
 
Intraday Return and Volatility Spillovers Across International Equity Markets
205-220
Kari Harju and Syed Mujahid Hussain