Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of investor confidence on mutual fund performance in two relatively vulnerable but leading emerging markets, India and Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: A pooled ordinary least squared (OLS) model is used to look at two...

This paper investigates the impact of firms’ executive pay disparity on insider trading returns prior corporate earnings disclosures. We find evidence that executive pay disparity has a significant positive relationship with abnormal returns from insider purchases preceding the good earnings...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stock market response to dividend announcements in high growth emerging markets of Gulf countries. Design/methodology/approach: The sample includes 1,092 dividend announcements from 299 listed firms over the period 2010-2015. Findings: In...

This paper examines the relationship between insider abnormal trading returns, executive pay disparity, and CEO turnover. Our study finds both independent and interaction effects of insider abnormal returns and CEO pay gap on the probability of CEO turnovers. First, an increase in insider...