It has been argued that keiretsu affiliation among Japanese firms gives rise to more stable management practices which result in more stable but lower average profits for member firms relative to independent firms. Using financial market performance data, such as the volatility of share prices,...

In this paper, we conduct a simulation analysis of the Fama and MacBeth (1973) two-pass procedure, as well as maximum likelihood (ML) and generalized method of moments estimators of cross-sectional expected return models. We also provide some new analytical results on computational issues, the...

In this paper, we develop a model of earnings management that sheds light onto empirical regularities in the behavior of institutions and insiders. We link the earnings management decision to insiders' stake and show how this may impact analysts' forecast accuracy and institutional trading. More...

Analyzing all publicly traded U.S. stocks for 2014-2021, using intraday data from TAQ, TRACE, I/B/E/S, and Capital IQ, using daily data from CRSP, Compustat, CRSP-Compustat Merged Database, and FRED, I find that abnormal reactions are systemically all out of the system within two hours after a...

In this paper we propose exact likelihood-based mean-variance efficiency tests of the market portfolio in the context of Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), allowing for a wide class of error distributions which include normality as a special case. These tests are developed in the framework of...

The Scale-Efficiency version of the Efficient-Structure Hypothesis and the Structure-Conduct-Performance Hypothesis find empirical support in German banking data from 1998 to 2002. Due to the acceptance of the two hypotheses and the existence of overall economies of scale, we conclude that...

Efficiency issues become even more sensitive for post-communist European countries and for Albania as well, as their economies have created relatively new financial systems being currently of little experience, moreover when they become part of EU. Their survival requires them among others, to...

The extant literature has established that the occurrence of major terrorist events leads to negative abnormal returns not only to the location of the event, but also to third countries. However, the literature has neither investigated which are the diffusion mechanisms of terrorist shocks, nor...

The Federal Reserve's quantitative easing (QE) program has been accompanied by a flow of funds into emerging-market economies (EMEs) in search of higher returns. When Federal Reserve officials first mentioned an eventual slowdown and end of purchases under the central bank's QE program in May...

In this paper, we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...