Investment Performance of Common Stocks in Nigeria

Master's Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: A, University of Nigeria (Business Administration), course: M.Sc. Finance, language: English, abstract: The study examines the investment performance of common stocks in Nigeria. It does so within the framework of seminal finance theories such as the Modigliani-Miller propositions, information content of dividends hypothesis, the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Stock market and macroeconomic (or systematic) factors relations, Pricing earnings multiple significance and the inflation hedging capacity of common stocks. The implications of the empirical tests in an emerging market are discussed.