“…Hypotheses Development. In the literature, the arising issues regarding market reactions following right issues can be generally classified into two main factions, namely short-term reactions (Ariff et al, 2007;Barnes and Walker, 2006;Feng et al, 2018;Iqbal, 2008;Krishnan et al, 2010;Paskelian and Bell, 2010;Shahid et al, 2010) and long-term reactions (Andrikopoulos, 2009;Bayless and Jay, 2008;Devos et al, 2017;Du et al, 2016;Dutta, 2017;Mansali and Daadaa, 2018;Silva and Bilinski, 2015).…”