The benefits and costs of directors holding multiple board seats continue to be debated in the literature. We contribute to the debate by examining whether holding multiple outside board seats compromises directors' ability to effectively perform their monitoring duties. Analyzing over 40,000...

Using one composite and five alternative measures of asset liquidity, we examine the role of short-term debt in taming the dark side of asset liquidity: the negative effect of high asset liquidity facing unsecured bondholders. Addressing the joint determination of leverage and debt maturity, the...

This paper investigates the dynamics among three non-equity factors, credit, illiquidity, and foreign exchange risks, and equity returns to explore the equity risk premium. Results from both VAR and EGARCHM models demonstrate that credit and liquidity risk premia and changes in exchange rates...

The Spanish futures markets, the MEFF RENTA FIJA, and the MEFF RENTA VARIABLE, are among the fast‐growing futures markets in the world. These markets are known for their cutting‐edge technological innovations related to trading, providing information, clearing, and settlement. The growing...

This article provides a comprehensive examination of the existence, or the lack thereof, of the compass rose pattern in futures markets. The results from 118 futures contracts traded on 31 futures exchanges in 15 countries show that the compass rose pattern exists only in some futures contracts,...