The excess returns earned by takeover targets raises questions of efficiency in the market
for corporate control. Brown and Raymond and Samuelson and Rosenthal explain the target
share pricing process as a function of ...
Cotter, John(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2000)
How volatile is the euro currency? Given Ireland’s open economy status and its strong trading dependency on economies outside the euro area, understanding this question is vital. The paper analyses the volatility levels ...
Cotter, John(Global Association of Risk Professionals, 2000)
Accurate forecasting of risk is the key to successful risk management techniques. Correct modelling of a variable's extreme values located at the distributional tails accounting for the fat-tail phenomena is paramount, and ...
This study examines the distributional properties of futures prices for contracts traded on LIFFE. A filtering process is employed to remove day of the week and holiday effects, a maturity effect, moving average effects ...
This study of Irish company investor relations material on the Internet was carried out in two parts. Firstly, Irish listed companies were surveyed for Web sites and investor relations material on the sites found was ...
Substantial differences between company book values and market values indicate the presence of assets not recognised and measured in company balance sheets. Intellectual capital assets account for a substantial proportion ...
The use of the Internet for financial reporting purposes by 109 Irish companies in 1998 is examined. The relationship between Internet disclosure and size, leverage, demand for corporate information and industry is analysed. ...
This paper examines voluntary disclosure of profit forecasts by bidding companies during takeovers. Disclosure is examined from two perspectives: (i) factors influencing disclosure and (ii) the influence of good news and ...