Ike Mathur

For their support, comments and valuable advice, I would like to thank Günter Bamberg, (2007)

Thomas Schuster, Brad M. Barber, Hans-bernd Brosius, Wolfgang Donsbach, Christian Fenner, Werner Früh, ...

The business media play an active role in influencing stock prices. Statistically significant excess returns at the time of the publication of stock recommendations have been documented many times....

The Effects of Announcements of Bank Lending Agreements on the Market Values of U.S. Banks

Amjad Waheed, Ike Mathur

Banks, by their very nature, specialize in evaluating risky lending situations, and their decisions to grant loans are signals to other providers of capital about the borrowers' financial strength....

The tick/volatility ratio as a determinant of the compass rose pattern

Chun Lee, Ike Mathur, Kimberly Gleason

This study provides evidence that low frequency data masks certain returns phenomena in the foreign exchange (forex) market. It is shown that the compass rose pattern is entirely absent in daily...

Optimal Entrepreneurial Financial Contracting

M. Shahid Ebrahim, Ike Mathur

This paper studies the optimal financing (capital structure) of entrepreneurial activity in the context of "risk-aversion" by incorporating the deadweight costs of bankruptcy and taxes. Unlike the...

Interdependencies among the Nordic and U.S. Stock Markets.

Mathur, Ike, Subrahmanyam, Vijaya

Using the concept of Granger causality, interdependencies among the stock market indices for four Nordic countries and the United States are examined. The vector autoregressive model results indicate...

Contagion Effects from the 1994 Mexican Peso Crisis: Evidence from Chilean Stocks

Ike Mathur

The contagion, or informational spillover, effects of the 1994 peso crisis from the Mexican market to the Chilean market, and to the Chilean American Depository Receipts (ADRs) trading in the U.S.,...

Stock Returns and the Macroeconomic Environment Prior to the Asian Crisis in Selected Southeast Asian Countries

KANOKWAN CHANCHAROENCHAI, SEL DIBOOG¬LU, IKE MATHUR

This paper investigates the relationship between domestic macroeconomic variables and stock excess returns to evaluate the effects of macroeconomic variables on excess returns and assess market...

Evidence on Value Creation in the Financial Services Industries through the Use of Joint Ventures and Strategic Alliances

Kimberly C. Gleason, Ike Mathur, Roy A. Wiggins, III

While an extensive body of literature has examined merger, acquisition, and consolidation activity in commercial banks and other financial services firms, little attention has been paid to examining...

Governance and Performance Implications of Diversification Strategies: Evidence from Large U.S. Firms

Manohar Singh, Ike Mathur, Kimberly C. Gleason

Recent research focuses on explaining the diversification discount. However, there is little direct evidence regarding the relation among ownership structure, corporate governance, and corporate...

Are Multinational Corporations Superior Investment Vehicles for Achieving International Diversification?

Ike Mathur, Kyran Hanagan

International portfolio diversification is advantageous to the investor from a risk reduction viewpoint. Investing in MNCs and direct investing in foreign firms are 2 methods of diversifying...

Does corporate diversification exacerbate or mitigate earnings management?: An empirical analysis

Jiraporn, Pornsit, Kim, Young Sang, Mathur, Ike

The purpose of this study is to determine whether earning management is exacerbated or alleviated in diversified firms. An explicit distinction is made between industrial and geographic...

Multinational Diversification and Corporate Performance: Evidence from European Firms

Ike Mathur, Manohar Singh, Kimberly C. Gleason

"We investigate the empirical relationship between accounting based measures of performance and the degree of multinational diversification for a set of European chemical industry firms. We find that...

THE USE OF ACQUISITIONS AND JOINT VENTURES BY U.S. BANKS EXPANDING ABROAD

Kimberly C. Gleason, Ike Mathur, Roy A. Wiggins

We examine international bank expansions, which are classified as banking (scale related) or nonbanking (complementary) moves into developed or developing markets. The market responds favorably to...

The Conditional Relation between Beta and Returns

Pettengill, Glenn N., Sundaram, Sridhar, Mathur, Ike

Unlike previous studies, this paper finds a consistent and highly significant relationship between beta and cross-sectional portfolio returns. The key distinction between our tests and previous tests...