Economic Crises: Past, Present and Future
Yochanan Shachmurove

Lending Competition and Relationship Banking: Evidence from Japan
Yoshiaki Ogura and Nobuyoshi Yamori

Green Investing: Is it Different from Socially Responsible Investing?
James E. Mallett and Stuart Michelson

Has Inflation Targeting Been Effective?
Yutaka Kurihara

The Long-Run Relationship between Stock Indices and Economic Factors in the ASE: An Empirical Study between 1989 and 2006
Theodoros Spyridis, Zeljko Sevic and Nikolaos Theriou

The Impact of Institutional Ownership and Dividend Policy on Stock Returns and Volatility: Evidence from Egypt
Islam Azzam

Leverage and Asset Allocation under Capital Market Distortion
Dilip K. Ghosh, Arun J. Prakash and Dipasri Ghosh

Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance Effectiveness under Transaction Costs
Farid Mkaouar and Jean-Luc Prigent

Interdependence between Exchange Rates: Evidence from Multivariate Fractional Cointegration
Heni Boubaker and Lotfi Belkacem

Regulatory Practices and the Impossibility to Extract Truthful Risk Information
Patrick L. Leoni

The Origin of Stock-Market Crashes: Proposal for A Mimetic Model Using Behavioral Assomptions and An Analysis of Legal Mimicry
Larry Bensimhon and Aldo Lévy

Stock Market Integration in the EURO Area: Segmentation or Linear Modelling Misspecification?
Fredj Jawadi, Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, Duc Khuong Nguyen

Flaws in Banking Governance
Jean-Michel Sahut and Sandrine Boulerne

Liquidity Risk, Firm Risk, and Issue Risk Premium Effects on the Abnormal Returns to New Issues of Convertible Bonds
Jinlin Liu and Lorne N. Switzer

Non-Performing Loans and Credit Managers’ Role: A Comparative Approach from Pakistan and Turkey Omar Masood, Monhder Bellalah, and Walid Mansour

Major U.S. States as Centers of Venture Backed Entrepreneurial Activities
Yochanan Shachmurove

The Effects of Economic Convergence on the Formulation of Marketing Strategy: An Analysis of the European Automobile Industry
Jae Hoon Hyun

An Empirical Test of Thompson’s Model of Strategic Choice
Paul C. Nutt

Foreign Currency Derivatives Use, Firm Value and the Effect of the Exposure Profile: Evidence from France
Ephraim Clark and Salma Mefteh

Corporate Default Analysis in Tunisia Using Credit Scoring Techniques
Loredana Ureche-Rangau and Nadia Ouertani

Activism of Institutional Investors, Corporate Governance Alerts and Financial Performance
Jean-Sebastien Lantz, Sophie Montandrau and Jean-Michel Sahut

Dynamic versus Static Optimization of Hedge Fund Portfolios: The Relevance of Performance Measures
Rania Hentati, Ameur Kaffel, and Jean-Luc Prigent

Nonlinear Linkages between Oil and Stock Markets in Developed and Emerging Countries
Fredj Jawadi, Mohamed El Hedi Arouri, and Mondher Bellalah

Institutional Investors’ Typology and Firm Performance: The Case of French Firms
Jean-Michel Sahut and Hidaya Othmani Gharbi

A Discussion of Financial Regulations’ Impact on the Subprime Crisis: Implications for Financial Markets
Omar Masood, Bora Aktan, and Georges Pariente

The Statistics of the Information Ratio Philippe Bertrand and Costin Protopopescu

The Quality of Audit Process: An Empirical Study with Audit Committees
Riadh Manita and Najoua Elommal

Does the Choice of the Method for Combining Listed Companies Have an Impact on Their Valuation?
Olivier Levyne and Jean-Jacques Levy

Cointegration of Baltic Stock Markets in the Financial Tsunami: Empirical Evidence
Omar Masood, Mondher Bellalah, Sahil Chaudhary, Walid Mansour, and Frederic Teulon