The sharing economy has become a reality in many sectors, including energy. Energy
consumers are increasingly able and willing not only to produce their own energy and thus …

Electricity retailers in an electricity market use over-the-counter (OTC) contracts, or bilateral,
and spot market purchases to meet the energy demands of their users. In some markets …

Purpose This study aims to investigate the effect of seasonality caused by fasting as a
religious practice on trading activity. Design/methodology/approach The authors use an …

This Article reexamines the nexus of relationships among informed transactions, information
asymmetry, and liquidity ofsecurities markets in the context of public policy debates about …

This paper explores the effects of different types of bank ownership concentration on
changes in bank risk during acquisition years. Using multi-country data from 2000 to 2006 …

We investigate how the geographic distance between firms' headquarters affects their stock
price comovement. Our results show that a firm's stock return has stronger comovement with …

“Is the Proof of the Pudding in the Eating?”–Comparison between Alternative Investment
Market and Alternext As a stock exchange dedicated to small and medium enterprises …

This paper investigates the influences of intrafirm geographic and cultural dispersion, the
distance between the location of a firm's investments and its headquarters, on the firm's …

We investigate the influence of interjurisdictional, geographic-based information barriers on
the financial transparency and liquidity of real estate organizations across the Asia-Pacific …

This paper investigates the relationship among transaction taxes, high-frequency trading
(HFT), and market quality. We employ the agent-based modeling (ABM) approach and …