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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

This paper studies the impact of uncertainty on the investors' reactions to news on macroeconomic statistics. With daily data on realized volatility and trading volume, we show that the investors in the US Treasury bond futures market react significantly stronger to US macroeconomic news in...

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Why is equity capital expensive for opaque banks?

Kauko, Karlo - Suomen Pankki - 2012

-Miller irrelevance theorem. This paper combines dividend signalling theories and the Diamond-Dybvig bank run model. An opaque bank must … costly liquidations if the return on assets has been poor, but not paying the dividend might cause panic and trigger a run on … the bank. The more equity has been issued, the more liquidations are needed during bad times to pay the expected dividend …

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Are adverse selection models of debt robust to changes in market structure?

Vauhkonen, Jukka - Suomen Pankki - 2003

Many adverse selection models of standard one-period debt contracts are based on the following seemingly innocuous assumptions. First, entrepreneurs have private information about the quality of their return distributions. Second, return distributions are ordered by the monotone likelihood-ratio...

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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

On 3 July 2015, SUERF organized its sixth joint conference with the Bank of Finland in Helsinki on the subject of liquidity and market efficiency. The one-day program consisted of an opening speech, six presentations, including three keynotes, and a lunchtime address. The present SUERF Study...

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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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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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Asymmetric information in credit markets and entrepreneurial risk taking

Vesala, Timo - Suomen Pankki - 2004

The paper constructs a search-theoretic model of credit markets with a bilateral trading mechanism that enables the manageable introduction of asymmetric information. Borrowers´ success probabilities are unobservable to financiers, but the degree of risk in observable projects can be used as a...

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