Includes bibliographical references and index.

Divergent opinion, trading information and stock price co-movements / Lin Chen, Junbo Wang, Chunchi Wun and Hongquan Zhu -- Assessing asset tail risk with artificial intelligence: the application of artificial neural network / Ying L. Becker, Lin Guo, and Odilbek Nurmamatov -- Option pricing with Markov switching stochastic volatility models / Yiying Cheng -- Further evidence of momentum in corporate bond returns / Hai Lin, Xinyuan Stacie Tao, Junbo Wang and Chunchi Wu -- The causes and consequences of stock pledging by controlling shareholders: the case of Taiwan / Alan T. Wang and Anlin Chen -- Japanese SEOs before the lost decade: a revisit of the long-run stock performance / Peter Dadalt, Sirapat Polwitoon and Ali Zadeh -- Firm characteristics and capital structure: evidence from ASEAN economies / Chin Chia Liang, Yuwen Liu, Carol Troy and Wen Wen Chen -- Impact of oversubscription ratio and trading volume on IPO first three-day initial return / Hon-Wei Leow and Wee-Yeap Lau -- Does participating in physical activities raise starting salaries of female college graduates? Evidence from an Asian Society / Shih-Yung Chiu -- On Market property right, its cost components and economic significance / Fanhua Zeng. Yangfen Wu, and Wei-chiao Huang -- The spillover effect of the us-china trade war on Taiwan's economy / Peter C.Y. Chow.

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