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International Review of Applied Financial Issues and Economics
Published by S.E.I.F at Paris
Subject areas: Finance/Economics
Frequency: Published quarterly
ISSN: 9210 - 1737
 
 
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Volume 1, Issue:1 (December 2009) Published Online: December 21th 2009

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Title: Explaining Pacific-Basin Financial Market Returns by Size of Firm

Author(s):
Jeffrey E. Jarrett
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.

Zhenzhen Sun
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.


Send correspondance to Jeffrey E. Jarrett, University of Rhode Island, Ballentine Hall, Faculty of Management Science and Finance, 7 Lippitt Road, Kingston RI 02881, 0802, (401, 874, 4169, Voice, 401, 874, 4312, Fax).
E-mail: jejarrett@mail.uri.edu.

History: Received 21 October 2009
              Received 21 October 2009

Abstract: Authors study market return for firms listed on the financial exchanges in Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, and Malaysia (six Pacific Basin Nations. They stud whether we can explain differences in financial returns for firms by the general size of the firms. They investigate whether the associations are systemic (due to firm size) or are due to other factors.

Keywords: Pacific Basin stock markets, time series regression methods, size of firms