This paper provides empirical evidence of how financial stress mediates the effect of the demand side's confidence on the supply side's confidence in the United States. Using monthly data from 1994:M2 to 2012:M5, the time-series regression analyses show that changes in the demand side's...

This paper aims to examine the contemporaneous relationship between trading volume and returns in the ETF market taking the stock market as a contrast. While past research using correlation analysis and OLS method to specify a linear regression model only catches the average relationship between...

This study examines the causal link between short interest ratio and equity market return and their respective impulse response functions. Based on the analysis of monthly data from 1931M6 to 2012M12, the results reveal that there is a causal link between NYSE short interest ratio and the...

This study is set up to investigate how financial stress dynamically affects commercial bank loan delinquency (CBLD) rate. Using quarterly data from 1994Q1 to 2012Q4, the results show that CBLD rate immediately rises following financial stress shock; however, it significantly drops after 3...

Using a panel of Taiwanese bank data over the period from 1997 to 2010, this paper conducts a joint analysis to examine the static, selection, and dynamic effects of ownership on bank performance. Simultaneously, to determine whether politics have a significant effect on the performance of...