The theory of financial intermediation highlights various channels through which capital and liquidity are interrelated. Using a simultaneous-equations framework, we investigate the relationship between bank capital buffer and liquidity for European and US publicly traded commercial banks from...

This study examines the relationship between Internet-based disclosure and capital market risk. Based on prior research, an index of 49 items is developed to evaluate the level of Internet-based voluntary disclosure in France. Three measures are used to present the capital market risk: total...

In the 1990s, European merger regulation (EMR) was biased against foreign acquirers, especially if the deal harmed domestic rivals (i.e., protectionism). In 2002, the Court of First Instance overturned three prohibitions by the European Commission (EC) and criticized its economic analysis. These...

We investigate bank loans' specialness with a particular focus on the recent boom and bust cycle. We perform an empirical analysis using event study methodology on a sample of 253 large loan announcements for French borrowers between January 2000 and December 2009. We find a significant and...

Long run returns of IPO firms' recommendations in Europe reveal possible conflicts of interest and pressures faced by financial analysts over the 1991-2005 period. Nevertheless, recent European legislations about investment research have led to better long run performance of IPO firms'...

We examine, in this paper, whether or not subprime mortgage crisis-related write-downs are mainly due to banks involvement in credit risk transfer market (CRT). Using data from 288 European banks over the period 2004-2007, we find that, for different types of CRT involvement, different patterns...

This study examines how bank ownership influenced the credit supply during the recent financial crisis in Russia, where the banking sector consists of a mix of state-controlled banks, foreign-owned banks, and domestic private banks. To estimate credit supply changes, we employ an exhaustive...

The instability of banks during the recent financial crisis underlines the importance of understanding how banks determine their capital ratios. This paper conducts the first empirical assessment on how banks adjust their capital ratios following an exogenous shock to their asset risks. The...

We study portfolio selection using Conditional Value-at-Risk and, as its natural extension, spectral risk measures instead of the variance. We do not focus only on the derivation of the efficient frontiers, but also consider the choice of optimal portfolios within an integrated framework. We...

We empirically examine the main determinants of the capital buffer management (capital exceeding the minimum required by regulation) for the Brazilian banking industry, in order to test whether banks respond to the previous and new fundamentals of capital regulation. We find evidence that...