In 2010, the CBN announced a fixed tenure policy for bank CEOs in Nigeria. To contribute to the understanding of the (in)appropriateness of this policy, this study analyzes the link between CEO tenure and bank efficiency in Nigeria. Using a balanced data set comprising 160 observations of 32...

What has been undertaken in this research is a careful sampling of CFTC Samp;P500 futures trade records into the 15 minute required reporting intervals for the period January 1994 to June 2004. Accumulated volume of trade open, close, high and low prices are extracted for market trade and also...

This paper addresses empirical analysis of Malaysian credit spreads in a number of directions. Firstly, the investigation of explanatory power of macroeconomic or market variables to the changes in the spreads. Secondly, use of daily data rather than data sampled to match typical macroeconomic...

We utilize the default by Argentina in 2001 and the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, as natural experiments, to monitor the complex interactions between sovereign bonds when subjected to endogenous and exogenous shocks. By forming pairs of Latin American sovereign bonds, bundled into similar...

We investigate two important relationships using the most liquid and option-free, sovereign Eurobond issues of major Latin American economies: the determinants of credit spread changes using variables derived from structural and macroeconomic theory; and the impact of a default episode on the...