Emerging markets performance, analysis and innovation

"A Chapman & Hall book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ch. 1. Growth Prospects of New and Old Emerging Markets / Anastasia Petraki and Anna Zalewska -- Ch. 2. Are Emerging Stock Markets Less Efficient? A Survey of Empirical Literature / Kian-Ping Lim and Robert D. Brooks -- Ch. 3. How "Normal" Are Emerging Market Returns? / Craig Ellis and Maike Sundmacher -- Ch. 4. Emerging Markets Exposure: Equities or Hedge Funds? / Vassilis N. Karavas, Nikos S. Thomaidis and George D. Dounias -- Ch. 5. Equity Returns in Emerging Markets: Prospects for the BRICs / R. McFall Lamm, Jr. -- Ch. 6. Indices and Price Book, Price Earnings, and Dividend Yield Ratios in Emerging Financial Markets / Oktay Tas, Cumhur Ekinci and Kaya Tokmakcioglu -- Ch. 7. World Price of Covariance Risk with Respect to Emerging Markets / David E. Allen and Joseline Chimhini -- Ch. 8. Do Jumps Matter in Emerging Market Portfolio Strategies? / Massimo Guidolin and Elisa Ossola -- Ch. 9. Overreaction Hypothesis in Emerging Balkan Stock Markets / Dimitris Kenourgios and Aristeidis Samitas -- Ch. 10. Does Currency Risk Depress the Flow of Trade? Evidence from the European Union and Transition Countries / M. Nihat Solakoglu and Ebru Guven Solakoglu -- Ch. 11. Stock Market Volatility of European Emerging Markets as Signals to Macroeconomic Activities / Bulent Koksal and Mehmet Orhan -- Ch. 12. Profitability of the Contrarian Strategy and the Overreaction Effect on the Istanbul Stock Exchange / Mehmet A. Civelek and M. Banu Durukan -- Ch. 13. What Determines Going Public in Latin America? / Samuel Mongrut, Aaron Garay and Alonso Valenzuela -- Ch. 14. Preholiday Effect and Stock Returns in Mexican Financial Markets / Dermott Tennyson and Begona Torre Olmo -- Ch. 15. Business-Cycle and Exchange-Rate Fluctuations in Emerging Market Economies in Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe / Marcelo Sanchez -- Ch. 16. Institutional Factors behind Capital Structure: Evidence from Chilean Firms / Viviana Fernandez -- Ch. 17. Private Equity in the MENA Region: An Exploratory Analysis / Thomas Lagoarde-Segot and Laurence Le Poder -- Ch. 18. Examining the Implications of Linear and Nonlinear Dependencies on Efficiency and Conditional Volatility of MENA Markets: The Case of Egypt and Tunisia / Imed Chkir, Lamia Chourou and Samir Saadi -- Ch. 19. Study of Market Integration, Share Price Responses, and Global Portfolio Investments in the MENA Region / Mohamed El Hedi Arouri and Duc Khuong Nguyen -- Ch. 20. Empirical Analysis of Herding Behavior in Asian Stock Markets / Thomas C. Chiang and Lin Tan -- Ch. 21. Institutions and Investment Activities in the Venture Capital Industry: Evidence from China, Hong Kong, and India / Anson L. K. Wong and Michael C. S. Wong -- Ch. 22. Rating Skewness Spillovers in Equity and Currency Markets: Evidence from the Pacific Rim / Sirimon Treepongkaruna and Eliza Wu -- Ch. 23. Dealing with East Asian Equity Market Contagion: Some Policy Implications / Thomas J. Flavin and Ekaterini Panopoulou -- Ch. 24. Response of Indian Equities to U.S. Stock Market Movements of the Prior Trading Day / Silvio John Camilleri -- Ch. 25. Asset Pricing with Higher-Order Co-Moments and Alternative Factor Models: The Case of an Emerging Market / Javed Iqbal, Robert D. Brooks and Don U. A. Galagedera -- Ch. 26. Market Risk Management for Emerging Markets: Evidence from the Russian Stock Market / Dean Fantazzini -- Ch. 27. Microstructure of the Bid-Ask Spreads of Russian Sovereign Bonds (1996-2000): Spreads as Indicators of Liquidity / Peter B. Lerner and Chunchi Wu -- Ch. 28. Reaction of Fixed-Income Security Investors to Extreme Events: Evidence from Emerging Markets / Spyros Spyrou -- Ch. 29. Market Liquidity and Investor Sentiment: Evidence from International Closed-End Funds / Paul Brockman and Gary McCormick -- Ch. 30. Closed-End Funds in Emerging Markets / Michael F. Bleaney and R. Todd Smith -- Ch. 31. Financial Distress and Emerging Markets / Stephen J. Lubben -- Ch. 32. State of Corporate Governance in Ukraine / Robert W. McGee -- Ch. 33. Accounting and Auditing Aspects of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies / Robert W. McGee -- Ch. 34. Emerging Market Firms and Bonding Benefits / Eline Van Niekerk, Peter Roosenboom and Willem Schramade -- Ch. 35. Corruption and Public Governance: Evidence from Vietnam / Thuy Thu Nguyen and Mathijs A. Van Dijk -- Ch. 36. Empirical Test of New Theory of Economic Reform Using Indonesia as a Case Study (1988-2003) / Carolyn V. Currie -- Ch. 37. Ownership Structure and Firm Value: Evidence from the Turkish Financial Crisis / Berna Kirkulak -- Ch. 38. Nonlinear Synthesis Approach Establishing a Banking or Financial Distress Early Warning System against Corruption / Terry J. O'neill, Jack Penm and R. D. Terrell -- Ch. 39. Corporate Governance in Emerging Markets: An Overview / Serdar Ozkan and A. Fatih Dalkilic -- Ch. 40. Government Corruption and Transactional Impediments in Emerging Markets / Mark D. Griffiths and Jill R. Kickul.