Managerial Finance: Volume 28 Issue 4

Do stock and home ownership influence US personal savings?

Kofi A. Amoateng

Notes with concern the current negative rate of personal saving in the USA, reviews previous research on factors affecting savings and explores the interrelationships between…

Predicting stock‐bond correlations

Joseph Cheng, Robert Ryan

Refers to previous research on deciding the balance between equities and bonds in investment portfolios and puts forward a model based on a single period correlation to predict…

The influence of standard and poor’s ranking changes on stock price performance

Abraham Mulugetta, Hormoz Movassaghi, Raquib Zaman

Describes Standard and Poor’s (S&P: USA) star ranking system for firm performance and presents a study of the impact of ranking changes on share prices. Outlines previous research…

An empirical analysis of net interest cost, the probability of default and the credit risk premium: a case study using the Commonwealth of Virginia

Yaw A. Badu, Kenneth N. Daniels, Francis Amagoh

Explains the rating system for US municipal bonds and its effect on borrowing costs, reviews relevant research and provides a study of the factors affecting grading by rating…

Analysis of P/E ratios and interest rates

Ben Amoako‐Adu, Brian Smith

Criticizes previous research on price/earnings ratios (PER) for neglecting their historical links with interest rates and analyses the causal links between interest ratres and the…