The effects of stock split announcements towards Bursa Malaysia liquidity / Lyvedrew Cryiasus

Stock splits is one of the challenges that influence the standard textbook analysis (Brealey and Myers ,1991) that regards splits as a purely cosmetic change, it is been documented in the seminal article by Fama, Eugene, Fisher, Jensen, and Richard Roll, (1969) that splits are associated with real economic effects. Thus, this research conduct to examine the relationship between the stock splits and liquidity which include the bid-ask spread in Malaysia. This research also investigate on how stock splits will affect the liquidity. More specifically, this study use the cross-sectional data analysis to examine the effect of stock splits on the liquidity in Bursa Malaysia listed company, which serves as a measure of liquidity changes.