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How and why do governance mechanisms affect stock price synchronicity in emerging markets? This paper aims to answer this question in the context of an emerging market. Using panel data with fixed effect regression model, we examine the relationship between various proxies of governance mechanisms (analyst following, ownership concentration, and operational complexity) and stock price synchronicity during the period between 2006 and 2008 in India. Our results show that firms with lower ownership concentration, higher analyst following, and lower operational complexity are associated with higher stock price synchronicity. We also show that our results are robust for a sub-sample of small and large firms. Given that firms with higher synchronicity are associated with better governance environment, we also show that firms with higher synchronicity have better firm performance than firms with lower synchronicity. Our results are important, especially for small/naïve investors, because obtaining value relevant information is a hard task in information scarce emerging markets. Synchronicity, being publicly available information, provides an easy way for investors to differentiate between good and bad firms.

Purpose – Earlier studies have found that the country characteristics play important role in measuring the corporate transparency. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the firm-level determinants play an important role in corporate transparency measured as the quality of disclosed earnings across transitional Europe and what role an overall transparency measured by the Corruption Perception Index plays in it. This paper further tests if the market reacts similarly to discretionary and non-discretionary components of earnings across different groups of countries with respect to transparency. Design/methodology/approach – The financial and ownership data of listed companies in ten European countries is obtained from Amadeus. The transparency ratings are obtained from Transparency International. The sample consists of a panel of 2001 listed companies and modified Jones model of Dechow et al. (1995) is used to measure the quality of earnings. Findings – This paper shows that the firm-level determinants (except firm size) of the quality of earnings are different among different groups made on the basis of transparency ratings. However, the determinants of the quality of earnings are not different within each group. The ownership structure of companies plays important role in determining the quality of earnings in most transparent countries whereas financial factors play significant role in least transparent countries. The markets respond positively to earnings quality in most transparent group of countries. Research limitations/implications – The results of this study provide interesting basis for future research on economic and social integration of Europe. Although the policy makers are trying to integrate the countries through common Laws and decrees but examining the firm-level factors such as size, growth and ownership are still important. The regulators should address the issue of corporate transparency in Europe by looking at the importance of these factors with respect to overall transparency. Originality/value – This study extends the knowledge, not only for academicians and investors but for policy makers as well. This study re-emphasizes the role of country-level transparency and firm-level determinants of the corporate transparency within Europe.

This paper aims to study the extent of overinvestment, underinvestment problem and measure its impact on corporate performance. Our sample consists of 7 years data (2005 to 2011) of 360 non-financial companies listed in the Singapore Stock Market. After panel data models appropriation tests (LM test, Hausman test, No Fixed effect test) we employed fixed effect regression methodology in our analysis. Our results show that 52% firms in our sample are engaged in proper investment projects, 29% firms are overinvesting, while 19% firms are underinvesting. Maximum overinvestment is taking place in Basic Material sector while maximum underinvestment happening in Healthcare sector. Further tests show that both overinvestment and underinvestment shows severe negative impact on firm performance. However, proper investment has positive impact on firm performance in Singapore Stock Market. The results highlight the extent of agency problem in Singapore Stock Market. Moreover, it depicts the importance of investment activities of Singaporean companies for the international investors and portfolio managers

This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis (AMH) in relation to time-varying market efficiency by using three tests, namely Generalized Spectral (GS), Dominguez-Lobato (DL) and the automatic portmanteau test (AP) test on fourdigital currencies; Bitcoin, Monaro, Litecoin, and Steller over the sample period of 2014-2018. The study applies Jarque-Bera test, ADF test, Ljung-Box statistics and ARCH-LM test for testing normality of returns, stationarity of series, serial correlation and volatility clustering in returns and squared returns of selected cryptocurrencies. Further, the study adopts an extremely important category of martingale difference hypothesis (MDH), which uses non-linear methods of dependencies for identifying changing linear and non-linear dependence in the price movement of currencies. The results indicate that price movements with linear and nonlinear dependences varies over time. Our tests also reveal that Bitcoin, Monaro and Litecoin have the longest efficiency periods. While Steller shows the longest ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ambreen Khursheed is aLecturer and PhD scholar at UCP Business School. She is a MS qualified (Gold Medalist