MEAFA has now made available all working papers that were presented at the First Meeting on MEAFA, 14-15 Feb 2008.
All papers can be downloaded from MEAFA's website. These include the following:
. Stuart McLeay, Rayna Brown and Maxwell Stevenson, 'Unit Roots, Cointegration and Bank Financial Ratios', Bangor Business School, Melbourne University and the University of Sydney.
. Maxwell Stevenson, Allister Keller and Bruno Rodrigues 'The role of time, liquidity, volume and bid-ask spread on the volatility of the Australian equity market', the University of Sydney and Pontifical Catholic University – Rio.
. Maurice Peat, 'Common Characteristics in Takeover Targets: A Self Organising Map Approach', the University of Sydney.
. Demetris Christodoulou and Vasilis Sarafidis, 'The Econometrics of Estimating Unexpected Accruals',, the University of Sydney.
. Michael Bradbury and Jill Hooks, 'Ownership Performance in a Lightly Regulated Non-Competitive Operating Environment', Massey University.
. Stewart Jones and David Johnstone, 'A Latent Class Analysis of Corporate Insolvency and Bankruptcy Risk', the University of Sydney.
. Maxwell Stevenson, Carl Chiarella and Shenhuai Gao, 'Resolving the Price-Earnings Puzzle and Related Econometric Issues', the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney.
You are most welcome to download the papers and send MEAFA your comments and feedback. However, please make sure not to quote the paper without written permission from MEAFA.