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Did fair-value accounting contribute to the financial crisis?

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a major debate about fair-value accounting. Many critics have argued that fair-value accounting, often also called mark-to-market accounting, has significantly contributed to the financial crisis or, at least, exacerbated its severity. In this paper, we...

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The crisis of fair value accounting: Making sense of the recent debate

Laux, Christian; Leuz, Christian - Center for Financial Studies - 2009

The recent financial crisis has led to a vigorous debate about the pros and cons of fair-value accounting (FVA). This debate presents a major challenge for FVA going forward and standard setters' push to extend FVA into other areas. In this article, we highlight four important issues as an...

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Electronic trading systems and intraday non-linear dynamics: An examination of the FTSE 100 cash and futures returns

Canto, Bea; Kräussl, Roman - Center for Financial Studies - 2007

This paper focuses on dynamic interactions of equity prices among theoretically related assets. We explore the existence of intraday non-linearities in the FTSE 100 cash and futures indices. We test whether the introduction of the electronic trading systems in the London Stock Exchange in 1997...

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Price pressures

Hendershott, Terrence; Menkveld, Albert J. - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

supplying liquidity to asynchronously arriving investors. Empirically, twelve years of daily New York Stock Exchange …

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The diminishing liquidity premium

Ben-Rephael, Azi; Kadan, Ohad; Wohl, Avi - Center for Financial Studies - 2008

that both the sensitivity of returns to liquidity and liquidity premia have significantly declined over the past four … strategies virtually unprofitable. Our results are robust to several conventional liquidity measures related to volume. When … using liquidity measure that is not related to volume, we find just weak evidence of a liquidity premium even in the early …

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To disclose or not to disclose: Transparency and liquidity in the structured product market

Friewald, Nils; Jankowitsch, Rainer; Subrahmanyam, Marti G. - Center for Financial Studies - 2014

We use a unique data set from the Trade Reporting and Compliance Engine (TRACE) to study liquidity e ffects in the US … structured product market. Our main contribution is the analysis of the relation between the accuracy in measuring liquidity and … provide guidance for improving transparency while maintaining trader confidentiality. In addition, we analyze liquidity in the …

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Trade-throughs in European cross-traded equities after transaction costs: Empirical evidence for the EURO STOXX 50

Ende, Bartholomäus; Lutat, Marco - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

The new regulatory environment triggered by MiFID has resulted in a transformed competitive landscape and increased fragmentation among execution venues in Europe. One key component of MiFID is best execution, i.e. investment firms are obliged to achieve the best result for customer orders on a...

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Private benefits and minority shareholder expropriation: Empirical evidence from IPOs of German family-owned firms

Ehrhardt, Olaf; Nowak, Eric - Center for Financial Studies - 2001

Our study examines the existence and the nature of private benefits of control in Germany. We do this by analyzing initial public offerings of founding-family owned firms and tracking their fate up to ten years following the IPO. Our sample includes a uniquely rich data set of 105 IPOs of...

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Stock market interactions and the impact of macroeconomic news: Evidence from high frequency data of European futures markets

Canto, Bea; Kräussl, Roman - Center for Financial Studies - 2006

This study analyzes the short-term dynamic spillovers between the futures returns on the DAX, the DJ Eurostoxx 50 and the FTSE 100. It also examines whether economic news is one source of international stock return co-movements. In particular, we test whether stock market interdependencies are...

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Analysis of binary trading patterns in Xetra

Maurer, Kai-Oliver; Schäfer, Carsten - Center for Financial Studies - 2010

This paper proposes the Shannon entropy as an appropriate one-dimensional measure of behavioural trading patterns in financial markets. The concept is applied to the illustrative example of algorithmic vs. non-algorithmic trading and empirical data from Deutsche Börse's electronic cash equity...

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