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What determines bank stock price synchronicity? Global evidence

Francis, Bill; Hasan, Iftekhar; Song, Liang; Yeung, Bernard - Suomen Pankki - 2012

This paper examines what institutional and bank-specific factors determine bank stock price synchronicity. Using data on 37 countries from 1996–2007, we find that bank stocks are more aligned with the whole market (1) during the financial crisis; (2) in countries that have more credit provided...

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In search of concepts: The effects of speculative demand on returns and volume

ap Gwilym, Owain; Wang, Qingwei; Hasan, Iftekhar; Xie, Ru - Suomen Pankki - 2013

Using a novel proxy of investors’ speculative demand constructed from online search interest in “concept stocks”, we examine how speculative demand affects the returns and trading volume of Chinese stock indices. We find that returns and trading volume increase with the contemporaneous...

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Return-volatility linkages in the international equity and currency markets

Francis, Bill B; Hasan, Iftekhar; Hunter, Delroy M. - Suomen Pankki - 2002

This paper, which is motivated by the literature on international asset pricing and recent work on exchange rate determination, investigates dynamic relationshiops between major currency and equity markets. Using a multivariate GARCH framework, we examine conditional cross-autocorrelations...

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Relevance of uncertainty on the volatility and trading volume in the US Treasury bond futures market

Laakkonen, Helinä - Suomen Pankki - 2015

political uncertainties. Our results might partly explain the sudden freeze and low liquidity in some financial markets during …

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Liquidity and market efficiency : alive and well?

Liikanen, Erkki; Jylhä, Petri; Pennacchi, George G.; … - Joint Conference with the Bank of Finland in Helsinki …; … - 2015

liquidity and market efficiency. The one-day program consisted of an opening speech, six presentations, including three keynotes …

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The rigidity bias

Herrala, Risto - Suomen Pankki - 2003

We study the basic economic problem of choice between long-term and short-term commitments under a general characterization of uncertainty (aggregate uncertainty). When contingencies are contractible, a perfect market of Arrow-Debreau contingent claims implements the social optimum. When...

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Bank runs, liquidity and credit risk

Topi, Jukka - Suomen Pankki - 2008

In this paper, I develop a model that addresses the links between banks’ liquidity outlook and their incentives to take … credit risk. Assuming that both bank-specific liquidity shocks and credit losses are necessary to provoke bank runs, the …-specific liquidity shock declines. This suggests that the benign liquidity outlook prevailing prior to the subprime crisis may have …

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Can firms learn by observing? Evidence from cross-border M&As

Francis, Bill B.; Hasan, Iftekhar; Sun, Xian; Waisman, Maya - Suomen Pankki - 2014

In the presence of high uncertainty and limited experience, can observing the actions of other acquiring predecessors help firms make better acquisition decisions? Using a sample of cross-border M&As conducted by US acquirers in developing countries, we document a positive and significant...

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Asymmetric information in credit markets and entrepreneurial risk taking

Vesala, Timo - Suomen Pankki - 2004

equilibrium depends negatively/positively on the credit market ´tightness´/liquidity. In general equilibrium, where the underlying …

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Optimal bank transparency

Moreno, Diego; Takalo, Tuomas - Suomen Pankki - 2012

Consider a competitive bank whose illiquid asset portfolio is funded by short-term debt that has to be refinanced before the asset matures. We show that in this setting maximal transparency is not socially optimal, and that the existence of social externalities of bank failures further lowers...

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