Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to model the components of credit risk in primary debt markets and evaluate changes in these factors in times of crisis. Design/methodology/approach - The authors use a unique dataset consisting of nearly 163,000 new loans and bond issues in the USA and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model the components of credit risk in primary debt markets and evaluate changes in these factors in times of crisis. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use a unique dataset consisting of nearly 163,000 new loans and bond issues in the USA and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of cross-listing and cross-listing location on the terms of the private debt of firms not located in the USA. Specifically, the paper examines the empirical relationship between three syndicated loan terms (pricing, maturity and...

PPurpose – This paper seeks to identify factors potentially conditioning firms’ financial internationalization. Companies often internationalize their financial areas as part of their larger internationalization strategy. In other words, such an initiative is associated with the...

Purpose – The Basel II Accord requires that banks and other authorized deposit-taking institutions (ADIs) communicate their daily risk forecasts to the appropriate monetary authorities at the beginning of each trading day, using one or more risk models to measure value-at-risk (VaR). The risk...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of cross‐listing and cross‐listing location on the terms of the private debt of firms not located in the USA. Specifically, the paper examines the empirical relationship between three syndicated loan terms (pricing, maturity and...

Purpose – This paper seeks to identify factors potentially conditioning firms’ financial internationalization. Companies often internationalize their financial areas as part of their larger internationalization strategy. In other words, such an initiative is associated with the...

Purpose – The Basel II Accord requires that banks and other authorized deposit‐taking institutions (ADIs) communicate their daily risk forecasts to the appropriate monetary authorities at the beginning of each trading day, using one or more risk models to measure value‐at‐risk (VaR). The...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine if macroeconomic announcements affect the Fama-French market, size, book-to-market risk factors and momentum factor. Design/methodology/approach – Using unexpected announcements of major macroeconomic indicators, a study is made of how...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the day-of-the-week effect for three primary money market instruments in Canada. The sample period is 1980-2009. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use three approaches. First, a parametric t-test is employed to determine if a...