Emerging Markets: Performance, Analysis and Innovation

1. The Growth Prospects of New and Old Emerging Markets 2. Are Emerging Stock Markets Less Efficient?: A Survey of Empirical Literature 3. How "Normal" Are Emerging Market Returns? 4. Emerging Markets Exposure: Equities or Hedge Funds? 5. Equity Returns in Emerging Markets: Prospects for the BRICs 6. Indices and Price Book, Price Earnings, and Dividend Yield Ratios in Emerging Financial Markets 7. The World Price of Covariance Risk with Respect to Emerging Markets 8. Do Jumps Matter in Emerging Market Portfolio Strategies? 9. Overreaction Hypothesis in Emerging Balkan Stock Markets 10. Does Currency Risk Depress the Flow of Trade?: Evidence from the European Union and Transition Countries 11. Stock Market Volatility of European Emerging Markets as Signals to Macroeconomic Activities 12. The Profitability of the Contrarian Strategy and the Overreaction Effect on the Istanbul Stock Exchange 13. What Determines Going Public in Latin America? 14. Preholiday Effect and Stock Returns in Mexican Financial Markets 15. Business-Cycle and Exchange-R ate Fluctuations in Emerging Market Economies in Asia, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe 16. Institutional Factors behind Capital Structure: Evidence from Chilean Firms 17. Private Equity in the MENA Region: An Exploratory Analysis 18. Examining the Implications of Linear and Nonlinear Dependencies on Efficiency and Conditional Volatility of MENA Markets: The Case of Egypt and Tunisia 19. A Study of Market Integration, Share Price Responses, and Global Portfolio Investments in the MENA Region 20. Empirical Analysis of Herding Behavior in Asian Stock Markets 21. Institutions and Investment Activities in the Venture Capital Industry: Evidence from China, Hong Kong, and India 22. Rating Skewness Spillovers in Equity and Currency Markets: Evidence from the Pacific Rim 23. Dealing with East Asian Equity Market Contagion: Some Policy Implications 24. The Response of Indian Equities to U.S. Stock Market Movements of the Prior Trading Day 25. Asset Pricing with Higher-Order Co-Moments and Alternative Factor Models: The Case of an Emerging Market 26. Market Risk Management for Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Russian Stock Market 27. Microstructure of the Bid-Ask Spreads of Russian Sovereign Bonds (1996-2000): Spreads as Indicators of Liquidity 28. Reaction of Fixed-Income Security Investors to Extreme Events: Evidence from Emerging Markets 29. Market Liquidity and Investor Sentiment: Evidence from International Closed-End Funds 30. Closed-End Funds in Emerging Markets 31. Financial Distress and Emerging Markets 32. The State of Corporate Governance in Ukraine 33. Accounting and Auditing Aspects of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies 34. Emerging Market Firms and Bonding Benefits 35. Corruption and Public Governance: Evidence from Vietnam 36. An Empirical Test of New Theory of Economic Reform Using Indonesia as a Case Study (1988-2003) 37. Ownership Structure and Firm Value: Evidence from the Turkish Financial Crisis 38. A Nonlinear Synthesis Approach Establishing a Banking or Financial Distress Early Warning System against Corruption 39. Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets: An Overview 40. Government Corruption and Transactional Impediments in Emerging Markets