We examine the relevance and effectiveness of stock return correlations among financial
institutions as an indicator of systemic risk. By analyzing the trends and fluctuations of daily …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze mergers and acquisitions (M&A) focusing
on the US pharmaceutical industry in the period 1981‐2004. This industry is chosen …

Background Early diagnosis of Acute Osteomyelitis (OM) and Septic Arthritis (SA) is of vital
importance to avoid devastating complications. There is no single laboratory marker which is …

Background: Calcium sulfate belongs to synthetic ceramic group of bone graft substitutes
having an osteoconductive property. Calcium sulfate is an easily available, economic bone …

Using a GARCH approach, we estimate a time-varying two-factor international asset pricing
model for weekly equity index returns of 16 OECD countries. A trade-weighted basket of …

We provide a firm level analysis of the impact of capital market liberalization in 18 emerging
markets. Consistent with models of international asset pricing, we find that firms’ stock …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to assess the validity of surgical interference with
elastic nailing in treating pediatric femur fractures in comparison with the traditional treatment …

This paper examines the predictability of equity index returns for 18 developed countries.
Based on the variance ratio test, the random walk hypothesis can be rejected at conventional …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of 123 American depositary receipts (ADRs) from
16 countries. The paper finds that the returns on ADRs have significant risk exposures to the …

… exchange rate risk have a different interpretation and follow a different literature (see Jorion
(1990), and He and Ng (1998) among others), we study them in a separate paper (see Patro …