This diploma thesis discusses the comparison of following stock exchanges: Shanghai Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Exchanges, New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. History of each of the stock exchanges is briefly mentioned, as well as their fundamental characteristics (including company status, tradability of own shares, market segments, trading hours etc.). The thesis also deals with the specification and comparison of products traded on the money market on the individual stock exchanges. Moreover, there are compared the listing rules for the stocks. The last chapter is focused on the analysis of the exchange data. Stock exchanges are compared in terms of the market capitalization and in terms of the number of listed companies. The analysis of value of trading is also covered. Finally, the stock exchanges are compared with regards to one representative index.

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The thesis deals with analysis of performance of the Chinese stock market. The first chapter presents basic general characteristics of the stock market and equity investment. The second chapter focuses on the specifics of Chinese stock market. The third, last, chapter analyzes performance of the Chinese stock market.

This paper studies factors that influence the stock return on the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) market. To achieve this goal, a stock-fixed effects model is estimated using a panel data sample comprising 100 companies listed on the SSE market during the 72-month period from January 2002 to December 2007. I find that number of trades and book-to-market value in both up and down markets have a significant and positive impact on stock returns during the studied period, whereas stock returns were negatively affected by systematic risk in both up and down markets although less so in up markets. Price to earnings ratio did not show any significant effect on stock returns on the SSE. My overall results indicate that SSE did not satisfy the efficient market hypothesis 1 during the studied period from January 2002 to December 2007.