Edited by John W. Kensinger, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA

Total Factor Productivity, Growth, and Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies - Rita Biswas Estimating Time-Varying Beta Coefficients: An Empirical Study of US and ASEAN Portfolios - Jordan French Comparative Analysis of Asset Pricing Models Based on Log-Normal Distribution and TSALLIS Distribution Using Recurrence Plot in an Emerging Market - Kousik Guhathakurta, Basabi Bhattacharya and A. Roy Chowdhury Does Liquidity Risk Premium Affect Optimal Portfolio Holdings of US Treasury Securities? - Karoll Gomez Portilla Size, Value, and Momentum Risk in the Cross-Section of Average Returns and Volatility - Knut F. Lindaas and Prodosh Simlai IPO Advertising: A Possible Cause of Short-Term Overvaluation - Konpanas Dumrongwong A Comparative Study of the Influence of Derivatives on Bank Stability in Emerging and Recently Developed Countries: Evidence from the Last Financial Crisis - Mohamed Rochdi Keffala Is There a Relationship Between the Liquidity of Closed-End Funds’ Portfolios, Fund Ownership by Smaller Investors, and the Liquidity of the Funds’ Shares? - Charles P. Cullinan, Xiaochuan Zheng and Elena Precourt Does Demographic Change Impact Hong Kong Economic Growth? - Ping-Fu (Brian) Lai and Wai Lun (Patrick) Cheung Does Optimizing the Cash Conversion Cycle Ameliorate Firm’s Performance? Unraveling the Relationship in the Indian Corporate Landscape - Nityanand Tripathi and Naseem Ahamed Budget Investments in Russia: Not Investment But Transformation of Public Property - Dmitry L. Komyagin Speculative Bubble on the Moroccan Real Estate Market: Identification and Cycles - Firano Zakaria Corporate Governance Index in Emerging Markets: Peruvian Listed Companies - Edmundo R. Lizarzaburu, Luis Berggrun and Kurt Burneo Optimal Arbitrage Path in the Foreign Exchange Market - Reza Habibi The Misalignment Phenomena in the Foreign Exchange Market: Evidence for the Tunisian Dinar - Salima Ben Ezzeddine and Kamel Naoui