Since 1990, many US firms have registered under the provisions of the ISO 9000 standard.
Meeting the qualifications of this registration requires considerable time and money. To this …

This paper aims to shed light on the relationship between the quality of the individuals on a
firm's board of directors and performance. It reports the results of an empirical study of a …

To add to our understanding of the market performance of firms after the announcement of
negative earnings, we investigate the differences in security research analyst forecasts for …

We examine pure no-load funds over a 5-year period. For equity funds, trading activity is
negatively related to returns. Expense ratios are not significantly related to returns. Potential …

… Let i and j stand for beta standard error groupings where i > j implies that the standard errors
of betas in group i are greater than the standard errors of betas in group j. The results were …

Two widely recognized indices of the performance of small capitalization stock are the Russell
2000 Index and the S&P 600 SmallCap Index. While there have been many studies on …

… Mann is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Operations Management and
Information Systems at Northern Illinois University m Richard J. Dowen as a Professor in the …

The finance literature is rich with articles debating the size anomaly associated with Banz (1981)
and the neglect effect studied by Arbel and Strebel (1982) and Arbel, Carnell and …

The decade of the 1980s witnessed the emergence of shareholder control as an issue of
considerable interest to investors. The controversy surrounding hostile takeovers and anti-…

A share of stock represents a proportional claim on the residual cash flows of a corporation.
The traditional view in financial economics is that the demand curve for a particular stock …