To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to...

This paper analyses the investment value of analysts' consensus recommendations and their changes in eight developed stock markets using equity recommendations from Factset/JCF database, in the period from January 1994 to June 2004. Our results show that analysts are optimistically biased,...

To date, an operational measure of systemic risk capturing non-linear tail comovement between system-wide and individual bank returns has not yet been developed. This paper proposes an extension of the so-called CoVaR measure that captures the asymmetric response of the banking system to...

In the light of the Agency and Signalling Theories, the aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between investors and private equity managers in order to identify the factors that affect the latter's reputation. Since there are no individual references about their past returns, the...

This paper builds on previous papers about private equity fundraising in two ways. Firstly, a micro and macroeconomic theoretical base is developed to support the empirical model proposed. Secondly, new explanatory variables that are related to the private equity process itself are added, thus...