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IRJFE Issue 13

International Research Journal of Finance and Economics

Issue 13
January, 2008

The Pricing of Dividends and Book Value in Equity Valuation: The Case of Iran Omid Pourheydari, Abbas Aflatooni and Zahra Nikbakhat	7-17

Direct Taxes in Emerging Economies: Implications of a Measure of Opposition to Inflation Hermann Sintim	18-23

Announcement Effect and Price Pressure: An Empirical Study of Cross-Border Acquisitions by Indian Firms Peng Cheng Zhu and Shavin Malhotra	24-41

The Surge Impact of the Flypaper, Substitution and Stimulation Effect on Local Tax Effort in Turkey Naci Tolga Saruc and Isa Sagbas	42-49

Can Euro be an Official Currency in North Cyprus? Hseyin zdeşer	50-57

Co-Integration of the Turkish Equity Market with Greek and other European Union Equity Markets Necla Kucukcolak	58-73

A Note on the Solution of Rational Expectations Models with One Future Variable Erdal Atukeren and Erkan Yalın	74-76

The Role of Technicians and Fundamentalists in Emerging Financial Markets: A Case Study of Kuwait Husain Al-Muraikhi and Imad A. Moosa	77-83

Mutual Fund Evaluation During Up and Down Market Conditions: The Case of Greek Equity Mutual Funds Eleni Thanou	84-93

The Impact of International Cross-Listings on Risk and Return: Evidence from Asian Companies Yu-Shan Wang, Huimin Chung and Chih Chiang Hsu	94-107

Estimating Betas in Thinner Markets: The Case of the Athens Stock Exchange George Diacogiannis and Paraskevi Makri	108-122

Why Malaysian Second Board Companies Switch Auditors: Evidence of Bursa Malaysia Shahnaz Ismail, Huson Joher Aliahmed, Annuar Md. Nassir and Mohamad Ali Abdul Hamid	123-130

Efficient Market Hypothesis and Emerging Capital Markets: Empirical Evidence from Istanbul Stock Exchange Mehmet Aga and Berna Kocaman	131-144

A Paper on -Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered Khan Md Azizur Rahman	145-151

ICT and Human Capital Intensities Effects on Malaysian Productivity Growth Elsadig Musa Ahmed	152-161

Underpricing in Turkey: A Comparison of the IPO Methods Guray Kucukkocaoglu	162-182

What Feeds Banks Appetite for Risk-Entailing Portfolios? Kadri Mnnasoo	183-191
A Study of the EUs Structural Indicators using Panel and Data Analysis Stelios Karagianni	192-206