The aim of the research is to determine how the lifting of price restrictions on short sales and security-lending sales affects market efficiency, liquidity and arbitrage opportunities. The study examines trading behaviors of large and small traders separated by their transaction costs and shows...

This paper relates to internet, noise trading and commodity futures prices. The theoretical framework is the Mixture Distribution Hypothesis (MDH) that posits a joint dependence of return volatility and information. We use two different proxies for the observed component of information flows,...

This study extends Bakshi and Kapadia's (2003b) framework to a multi-factor model to verify the common macro-factors attributed to the price of volatility risk in U.K. equity options. The results point out the presence of a negative risk premium and indicate that both idiosyncratic volatility...

Cash-futures basis, a proxy for arbitrage opportunities, is examined, and the impact of informed trading and the changing roles of speculators and arbitrageurs are analyzed in both the non-expiration and near-expiration periods. While we observe that market frictions account to some extent for...

This paper analyses the role of investor sentiment in the contemporaneous dynamics of spot and futures markets and in volatility spillovers between them. To explore this issue, we analyse spot and futures markets on stock market indexes in different countries: the S&P500 for the US, and a...

This paper examines the comovement between the Chinese and US stock markets over the period between January 4, 2000 and January 13, 2012. We show that there is no cointegration relationship between the two markets, even when allowing for structural change. Their conditional correlation...

Our paper focuses on a pattern of bank interest margin determination with entry competition in which a bank with home brand identity extends its advantage to an imperfectly competitive target market. We show that the bank with brand perception advantage subsequently has a lower equity return...

We analyze the implication of a bailout package including a loan guarantee and a direct equity capital injection on the equity risk of a distressed bank at the taxpayer costs. The lending function with a loan guarantee of the bank creates the need to model equity as a down-and-out call (DOC)...

Synergy-banking management under capital regulation is done through a gluing together of lending and deposit-taking. Under this viewpoint, we argue that the cap options theory of corporate security valuation can be applied to the contingent claims of the synergy-banking firm. The equity holders...

This paper examines optimal debt reorganization strategies in the presence of agency problems arising from information asymmetry between a firm and a bank during financial distress. In particular, in the structural model, we incorporate complete verification strategies for private information...