The Effect of Board Meetings on Bid-Ask Spread for Firms with Concentrated Insider Ownership

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suchi Mishra ◽  
Wei Rowe ◽  
Arun J. Prakash
2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-451
Author(s):  
Nadia Belkhir Boujelbéne ◽  
Abdelfettah Bouri

The majority of previous studies are limited to study the aspects of the ownership structure within the framework of government of company without wondering about the incidence of this mechanism on the stock liquidity. The objective of this paper is to examine the relationship between ownership structure and market liquidity. From a sample of Tunisian firms listed in the period from 2001 to 2005. We showed that ownership concentration by blockholders is positively related to spread. A positive but generally insignificant relation is found between spreads and insider ownership. However, institutional ownership does not add any explicative power to the liquidity


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Tania Hayu Safira ◽  
Febryanti Simon

This study is event study that was conduct to examine the differences of abnormal return, trading volume, trading frequency and bid-ask spread before and after the events of share split. The object of this research is the companies that did share split and listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in 2008 - 2015. The samples are 30 companies chosen by purposive sampling method. The criteria are the company did not do corporate action right issue, pre-emptive rights, a share dividend and bonus shares in the same year with share split. Event window used in this study was 30 days consisting of 15 days before and 15 days after the share split. Data analysis technique begins with a test of normality using Kolmogorov – Smirnov and transform for unnormally distributed data. Then, test of hypothesis using Paired t – test to compare the differences before and after share split. The results of this study showed that volume trading activity and trading frequency had significant differences before and after the share split. While, variable abnormal return and bid-ask spread had not significant differences before and after the share split. Keywords: Abnormal return, bid-ask spread, share split, trading frequency, trading volume.


2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurie Prather ◽  
David Michayluk ◽  
Li-Anne Elizabeth Woo ◽  
Henry Yip

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blair Brackin Marquardt ◽  
Brett W. Myers ◽  
Xu Niu

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