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Are Hot Markets Driven By Hot Resource Shares Or Hot Commodities?, Jo-Ann Suchard, Li-Anne Woo
Are Hot Markets Driven By Hot Resource Shares Or Hot Commodities?, Jo-Ann Suchard, Li-Anne Woo
Li-Anne Woo
Cycles in initial public offer (IPO) underpricing have been historically linked to both the proportion and pricing of resource-based IPOs issued relative to the entire population of IPOs. In addition, IPOs in the less diversified resource sector are exposed to changes in underlying commodity market prices which directly affect firm valuation. However, prior IPO research has largely ignored the various risk factors affecting resource firms. In this paper, we explicitly consider the explanatory power of 'traditional' IPO risk factors and augment these with specific risk characteristics associated with the resource sector, such as the underlying changes in resource commodity prices, …
A New Look At Mutual Fund Performance, Laurie Prather, William Bertin, Thomas Henker
A New Look At Mutual Fund Performance, Laurie Prather, William Bertin, Thomas Henker
Laurie Prather
This study goes beyond the scope of the typical analysis of mutual fund performance by considering a broader set of fund-specific factors uniquely categorized in terms of their impact on returns. Also unique to this study is a detailed exposition of the linkages between fund characteristics and performance. Traditional regression techniques explore these relationships in an attempt to predict fund performance, while the sample of funds examined is screened for survivor bias in a non-conventional fashion. The results suggest that our unique categories of fund popularity, agility, and growth, as well as the standard cost and managerial factors are relevant …
Intraday Reit Liquidity, William Bertin, Paul Kofman, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
Intraday Reit Liquidity, William Bertin, Paul Kofman, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
Laurie Prather
This study measures and analyzes the liquidity differences between Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and other common stocks. The intraday variations documented in this study have implications for the appropriate timing of trades to minimize transaction costs and the substitutability of investments if illiquidity is priced. The findings reveal intraday patterns indicating lower liquidity for REITs than for common stocks when the liquidity measure is friction-based. In contrast, activity measures exhibit higher liquidity levels for REITs than for common stocks but this difference is only statistically significant at the beginning of the trading day. The findings also indicate that the …
The Intraday Price Behavior Of Australian Exchange Traded Options And Warrants, William Bertin, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
The Intraday Price Behavior Of Australian Exchange Traded Options And Warrants, William Bertin, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
Laurie Prather
This study focuses on the price discovery process in Australian option and warrant markets. Characterizing these two markets in terms of their cost structures and institutional features, we formally test competing price discovery hypotheses. The general findings indicate that the warrants market is the dominant market suggesting that their lower trading cost outweigh their less attractive institutional features. Additionally, we find that idiosyncratic differences among firms may result in a clientele effect thus providing justification for the coexistence of these seemingly redundant markets.
Restructuring In Voluntary Administration - Evidence From Australian Listed Public Companies, James Routledge, David Gadenne
Restructuring In Voluntary Administration - Evidence From Australian Listed Public Companies, James Routledge, David Gadenne
James Routledge
Introduction of the statutory voluntary administration (VA) process in mid 1993 represented a significant change to corporate insolvency law in Australia in providing greater opportunity for companies to attempt to resolve their financial distress. The final decision regarding the administration outcome is determined by company creditors, who can conclude the relatively short administration period by supporting a deed of company arrangement (DOCA) or have the company wound-up in a statutory liquidation. The focus of this paper is on the relationship between financial information available at the time a company enters VA and the VA outcome. In particular, we explore how …
The Chicken Or The Egg? The Trade-Off Between Bank Non Interest Income And Net Interest Margins, Barry Williams, Gulasekaran Rajaguru
The Chicken Or The Egg? The Trade-Off Between Bank Non Interest Income And Net Interest Margins, Barry Williams, Gulasekaran Rajaguru
Barry Williams
This study considers the time series relationship between bank non interest income and bank net interest margins in Australia using panel vector autoregressions. It is found that increases in bank non interest income are being used to supplement decreases in net interest margins, but that the magnitude of the increase in non interest income is smaller than the decrease in net interest margins. It is also found that increases in non interest income predate declines in margin income, suggesting that Australian banks were pro-active in the process of disintermediation. The agency risks of increased bank non interest income are explored …
A Liquidity Motivated Algorithm For Discerning Trade Direction, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
A Liquidity Motivated Algorithm For Discerning Trade Direction, David Michayluk, Laurie Prather
Laurie Prather
Most exchanges do not report trade direction thus researchers and traders must deduce whether a trade is buyer or seller initiated since this information is required to evaluate models of bid-ask spread components and to understand the market for immediacy. Algorithms that assign trade direction based on the proximity to bid or ask quotes are easily implemented but ignore information readily discernable from orders, changes in the quoted depth and subsequent price movements. Using the New York Stock Exchange Trades, Orders and Quotes database, systematic biases in existing trade direction algorithms are documented that can be rectified by recognizing that …
The Long-Run Determinants Of Australian Income Inequality, Noel Gaston, Gulasekaran Rajaguru
The Long-Run Determinants Of Australian Income Inequality, Noel Gaston, Gulasekaran Rajaguru
Gulasekaran Rajaguru
Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and 1990s. However, considerable uncertainty still exists as to which factors have been the most important causes of this development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In line with popular concern, we find that globalisation and technological progress – defined as the global flow of information – has increased income inequality. In contrast, improved …
On The Political Substitutability Between Tariffs And Subsidies, Daniel Brou, Michele Ruta
On The Political Substitutability Between Tariffs And Subsidies, Daniel Brou, Michele Ruta
Daniel Brou
This paper provides a simple model that highlights the political substitutability between import tariffs and production subsidies.1 When taxes are distortionary, political pressures by domestic interest groups representing the import competing sector induce the government to set inefficiently high tariffs and subsidies. If the government commits the tariff to a lower level - for instance by signing a binding commitment in a trade agreement - interest groups demand (and in the political equilibrium obtain) a larger production subsidy. This political substitutability between tariffs and subsidies is shown to reduce social welfare.