International Research Journal of Finance and Economics
 Issue 20
 October, 2008
 
Investment Decisions in a Developing Economy: A Case Study of Insurance Business in Nigeria
7-14
Ishola Rufus Akintoye and Felix A. Adidu
Financial Performance of Shariah-Compliant Investment: Evidence from Malaysian Stock Market
15-26
Mehdi Sadeghi
 
 
Target Interest Rate News Spillover Effects on the Asia-Pacific Currency Markets
27-45
Suk-Joong Kim and and Do-Quoc-Tho Nguyen
 
 
The Effect of Sovereign Rating Changes on Stock Returns and Exchange Rates
46-54
Feride Öztürk Subaşı
 
An Empirical Examination of Intended and Unintended IPO Underpricing in Singapore and Malaysia
55-74
Md Hamid Uddin
 
 
A Study of Adequacy, Cost and Determinants of International Reserves in India
75-90
Sanjay Sehgal and Chandan Sharma
 
External Debt Sustainability of Turkey: A Nonlinear Approach
91-98
Veli Yilanci and Burcu Özcan
 
 
Testing Forecast Cash-Flows Used in FirmsValuation: Spanish Case
99-122
Mariano González-Sánchez and Ana I. Mateos-Ansótegui
 
 
 
The Impact of Stock Splits on Price and Liquidity on the Stock Exchange of Thailand
123-131
Pantisa Pavabutr and Kulpatra Sirodom
 
 
 
External Debt and its Impact on Economic and Business Growth in Pakistan
132-140
Abid Hameed, Hammad Ashraf and Muhammed Ali Chaudhary
 
 
Predicting Stock Returns Volatility: An Evaluation of Linear vs. Nonlinear Methods
141-150
Abdul Rashid and Shabbir Ahmad
 
 
 
Dynamics of Volatility, Futures Trading, and Investor Sentiments Under Different Market Conditions
151-163
Paul L. Hsueh, Y. Angela Liu and Nicholas R. Lee
 
 
 
Financial Ratios: A New Geometric Transformation
164-171
Alireza Bahiraie, Noor Akma Ibrahim, Ismail Bin Mohd and A.K.M. Azhar
 
 
 
Disaggregate Energy Consumption and Economic Growth: Evidence From Turkey
172-179
Erman Erbaykal
 
 
 
The Impact of Dividend Policy on Shareholders' Wealth
180-187
R. Azhagaiah and Sabari Priya .N
 
 
 
The effect of Syndication and Securitization Loan Agreements on the Value of Borrowers' Share Prices in an Emerging Market
188-196
Sadık Çukur, Mehmet Eryiğit and Seda Durani