Research in Finance seeks to provide a collection of quality research articles that reflect the current and primary issues in financial markets. Contributions include finance theory and financial practice, plus accounting issues such as reporting derivatives positions, reflecting intangible holdings, or predicting financial distress.
Thevolume starts with empirical investigations of the impact from macroeconomicvariables upon equity values in emerging economies compared with developedeconomies. Next is an empirical affirmation of the efficiency of theMidcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) electricity exchange. Next we find several investigations into theefficacy of efforts to stimulate the arousal of emerging nations around theworld.
Chapter 1. A Practitioner’s Guide to the CAPM: An Empirical Study;
Jordan French Chapter 2. The Influence of Macroeconomic Factors Upon Stock Price: The Case of Real Estate and Property Companies; Lentina Simbolon, ST Purwanto
Chapter 3. Existence of Price Pressures Surrounding Annual Changes in the ‘Dogs of the Dow’ Portfolio; Eric C. Lin, James L. Kuhle and Helen Xu
Chapter 4. An Examination of Prices on the MISO Exchange; Kevin Jones
Chapter 5. The value of corporate voting rights: valuation of loyalty voting rights and empirical evidence from France and Italy; Michael Gambert
Chapter 6. Determinants of the Productivity Change for the Banking sector in Egypt; Ammar Jreisat, Hassan Hassan and Sriram Shankar
Chapter 7. Does Financial Inclusion Improve the Banks’ Performance? Evidence from Jordan; Fadi Hassan Shihadeh, Azzam (M. T.) Hannon, Jian Guan, Ihtisham ul Haq and Xiuhua Wang
Chapter 8. Micro Finance Sector in Emerging Capital Markets: Peruvian Financial Entity CMAC (Caja Municipal de Huancayo); Kurt Burneo and Edmundo R. Lizarzaburu
Chapter 9. Evaluating the Efficiency of Microfinance Institutions in Vietnam and the Impact of This Efficiency on Poverty Reduction; Nguyen Thien Kim, Le Hoang Long and Nguyen Minh Sang
Chapter 10. Humanizing Finance by Hedging Property Values; Jaume Roig Hernando
Chapter 11. Insider or outsider CEO: Choosing Wisely in Different Circumstances; Naseem Ahamed and Nitiyanadan Tripathi
Chapter 12. The Impact of Academic Research in Finance (Impact Ratio); Daniel Broby