Browsing by Author "Kwabi, Frank"
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Biases in International Portfolio Allocation and Investor Protection Standards
Kwabi, Frank; Thapa, Chandra; Paudyal, Krishna; Adegbite, E. (Article)Economic reasoning suggests that financial globalization that encourages optimal international portfolio investments should improve investor protection standards (IPS) of a country. In practice, however, investors manifest ... -
Financial and corporate social performance in UK listed firms: The relevance of non-linearity and lag effects
Adegbite, E.; Guney, Y.; Kwabi, Frank; Tahir, S. (Article)Using environmental, social and governance (ESG) scores compiled by Reuters Datastream for each company’s corporate social performance (CSP), we examine the relationship between CSP and corporate financial performance (CFP) ... -
High frequency trading, price discovery and market efficiency in the FTSE100
Leone, Vitor; Kwabi, Frank (Article)This study examines the role of high frequency trading in price discovery and efficiency in the FTSE100 index tick changes. Using a unique data set, we find that there is no random walk when investors extract information ... -
The impact of stringent insider trading laws and institutional quality on the cost of capital
Kwabi, Frank; Boateng, Agyenim; Adegbite, Emmanuel (Article)This paper examines the effects of interaction between stringent insider trading laws, institutional quality and equity portfolio allocation on the cost of capital. Using a dataset drawn from 44 countries over the period ... -
International equity portfolio investment and enforcement of insider trading laws: a cross-country analysis
Kwabi, Frank; Boateng, Agyenim; Adegbite, Emmanuel (Article)In this study, we examine the effects of stringent insider trading laws’ enforcement, institutions and stock market development on international equity portfolio allocation using data from 44 countries over the period ... -
Shareholder protection, stock markets and cross-border mergers
Ahiabor, Frederick; James, G. A.; Kwabi, Frank; Siems, Mathias (Article)This paper is the first one that uses a panel data of different types of shareholder protection in order to examine (i) the effect of such laws on stock market development and (ii) the convergence of shareholder protection ... -
Sub-optimal international equity portfolio diversification and stock market development
Kwabi, Frank; Thapa, Chandra; Paudyal, Krishna; Neupane, S. (Article)This paper examines whether the widely reported phenomena of home and foreign biases (i.e. suboptimal international equity portfolio diversification) hold any ramifications for the development of stock markets. The results, ... -
Sub-optimal international portfolio allocations and cost of capital
Kwabi, Frank; Faff, Robert; Marshall, Andrew; Thapa, Chandra (Article)Finance theory suggests that the optimal international equity portfolio investment by home and foreign investors reduces cost of capital through international risk sharing and capital market integration. However, the ...