Adaptive and relative market efficiency of seven Southeast European stock exchanges is investigated for a period of 11 years. A wavelet-based technique is utilized to the daily return series of the major stock indices in order to track the evolution of the LRD parameter, since its value is...

We investigate how the introduction of market-based pricing, the practice of tying loan interest rates to credit default swaps, has affected bank financing. We find that market-based pricing is associated with lower interest rates, both at origination and during the life of the loan. Our results...